Chapter X: Epilogue

_COMMUNITY ACTORS_ [300]
_Comprise_

SPECIALS: 300

_Theatres_: Total 100 persons [25 groups]
_Actors_: ” 100 ”
_Dramatists_: ” 100 ”
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[33]Grand total 300 ”

From the following lists of Theatres, Actors, and Dramatists, revised and modified, the final groups will be selected. The lists, as here given, are merely preliminary, and have been sketched in, during the printing of this Appendix, so as not to be wholly omitted from the publication of this edition. As far as they concern the New York production of the Masque, _they are not to be construed as anything more than suggestive material for the necessarily impressionistic pageant-groups of the Epilogue_.

_THEATRES_

ANCIENT GREECE
Theatre of Dionysus at Athens, Epidaurus,
Ephesus, Sicyon.

ANCIENT ROME
Theatre of Pompey, Scarrus, Balbus Cornelius,
Marcellus.

_Provincial Theatres_
Antioch, Lyons, Herculaneum, Orange.

CONSTANTINOPLE
Hippodrome, of Emperor Septimius Severus.

ITALY
Florence della Pergola
Venice Fenice
Genoa Carlo Felice
Milan La Scala
Vicenza Olympian Theatre

PORTUGAL
Lisbon San Carlos

FRANCE
Hotel du Burgoyne, Comedie Francaise, Palais
Royal, Odeon, Porte St. Martin, Antoine.

AUSTRIA
Vienna Burgtheater

GERMANY
Weimar, Deutsches, Lessing.

RUSSIA
Art Theatre, Warsaw; Kremlin, Moscow.

AMERICA

_New York_
Booth’s, Bowery, Wallack’s, Daly’s.

_Boston_
Federal Street, Boston Theatre, Boston Museum.

_Philadelphia_
Arch Street, Walnut Street, Chestnut Street.

_Chicago_
McVicker’s.

_San Francisco_
California.

_Washington_

Ford’s.

_New Orleans_

St. Charles.

ENGLAND
Globe, Bankside, Bear Garden, Hope, Swan,
Drury Lane, Haymarket, Covent Garden.

_Dublin_
Smock Alley.

_ACTORS_

_GREECE_
Thespis, Polus [of Aegina], Aristodemus, Neoptolemus,
Thessalus, Athenodorus, Cleander, Mynniscus
[of Chalcis], Callipides, Timotheus.

_ROME_
Esopus, Roscius, C. Publilius, Ambivius Turpio,
Haitilius Praenestinus, Bathyllus, Pylades, Publilius
Syrus.

_ITALY_
[_Actors_] Domenico Biancolelli, Luigi Riccoboni,
Nicola Barbieri, Francesco Andreini, Fiorelli, Tommasino,
Salvini, Madena, Rossi.
[_Actresses_] Sedowsky, Isabella Andreini, Ristori.

_SPAIN_
[_Actors_] Lope de Rueda, Navarro of Toledo,
Alonso de Olmedo, Sebastian de Prado, Isidoro
Maiquez, José Valero, Julián Romea, Rafael Calvo,
Antonio Vico.
[_Actresses_] La Baltasara, La Calderona, La Pacheca,
La Tirana, Rita Luna, Matilde Diez.

_FRANCE_
[_Actors_] Jodelet, Harduin, Rodogune, Talma, Got,
LeKain, Molé, Fréville, Baron, Montfleury, Lemaitre,
Coquelin, Mounet Sulley.
[_Actresses_] Dangville, Rachel, George, Mars, Des
Oeillets, Bejart, Champmeslé, Lecouvreur, Dumesnil,
Clairon, David.

_HOLLAND_
[_Actors_] Louis Bouwmeister, Willem Haverkorn,
Johannes Haverkamp, Andries Snoek.
[_Actresses_] Mme. Wattier.

_GERMANY_
[_Actors_] Possart, Bamay, Kainz, Iffland, Konrad,
Ekkof, Dawison, Lewinsky, Döhring, Ackerman,
Carl Bonn, Dalberg, L. Dessoit, Anschutz, Hasse,
Beckmann, Gabillon.
[_Actresses_] Sonnenthal, Devrient, Schröder, Carolina
Neuber, Charlotte Wolter, Julie Rettich, Julie
Löwe, Carolina Bauer, Geistinger, Zitt, Raabe,
Buske, Fleck, Brockmann, Matkowsky, Dingelstedt,
Borchers.

[_SCANDINAVIA_]

_DENMARK_
[_Actors_] Ludwig Phister, Christen N. Rosenkilde,
Nicolai Nielsen, Emil Poulsen, Michael Wieke,
Michael Rosing.
[_Actresses_] Johanne Louise Heiberg, Anna Neilsen,
Julie Södring.

_SWEDEN_
[_Actors_] Fredrik Deland, Ebba Hwasser, Pierre
Deland, Karl Georg Dahlquist.

_NORWAY_
[_Actors_] Johannes Brun, Henrik Klausen.
[_Actresses_] Laura Gundersen, Lucie Wolf, Sophie
Pavelius.

_RUSSIA_
[_Actors_] V. Samoilov, N. Samoilov, Nikitin, Ershov,
Lenski, Karatygina (family), M. S. Shchepkin,
Krapivnitzki.
[_Actresses_] Fedotava, Vyera Samortova, Savina,
Karatygina (family), Kommissaryhevskaya, E. P.
Struyskaya.

_AMERICA_
[_Actors_] Junius Brutus Booth, Jas. Wallack, Edwin
Forrest, Edwin Booth, Lester Wallack, Wm.
Warren, John McCulloch, Lawrence Barrett, E. A.
Sothern, Jos. Jefferson, Wm. Florence, James A.
Hackett, John Gilbert, Edward L. Davenport, Wm.
B. Wood, T. A. Cooper, Wilson Barrett, Rignold,
Chas. Wheatley, MacKean, Buchanon, James Murdock,
J. B. Roberts, Williamson, Whiffin, Tony
Pastor, Hart, Harrigan, Stuart Robson, John T. Raymond,
Denman Thompson, Maurice Barrymore,
Richard Mansfield.
[_Actresses_] Charlotte Cushman, Mrs. John Drew,
Modjeska, Matilda Heron, Mme. Ponisi, Laura
Keene, Fannie Davenport, Ada Rehan.

_GREAT BRITAIN_
[_Actors_] Burbage, Betteron, Colley Cibber, Garrick,
Macready, Edmund Kean, Tyrone Power,
Samuel Phelps, Buckstone, Charles Macklin, Samuel
Foote, Tate Wilkinson, Barry, Quinn, Henderson,
John Philip Kemble, Robert Wilks, Thomas Sheridan,
Henry Mossop, John Liston, William Betty,
Henry Irving, Lawrence Irving.
[_Actresses_] Nance Oldfield, Mrs. Betterton, Mrs.
Mountfort, Mrs. Bracegirdle, Nell Gwynne, Mrs.
Siddons, Peg Woffington, Fanny Kemble, Hannah
Pritchard, Mrs. Abington, Mrs. Jordan, George
Anne Bellamy, Helen Barry, Helen Faucit, Katherine
Clive, Mrs. Farren.

_DRAMATISTS_

_GREECE_
[_Tragedy_] Aeschylus, Choerilus, Pratinas, Phrynichus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Carcinus, Chaeremon.
[_Comedy_] Phormis [of Maenalus], Epicharmus,
Susarion, Chionides, Aristophanes, Eupolis, Magnes,
Philemon, Menander, Rhinthon, Apollodorus, Diphilus,
Posidippus.

_ROME_
[_Tragedy_] Livius Andronicus, Accius, Pacuvius,
Asinius Pollis, Varius, Ovid, Seneca, Curiatius
Maternus, J. Cæsar Strabo.
[_Comedy_] Plautus, Terence, Ennius, Statius Caecilius,
Lavinius, Naevius, Melissus, Afranius, Laberius,
Pomponius, Atta.

_ITALY_
[_Tragedy_] Ariosto, Manzoni, Alfieri, Nicolini,
Tasso.
[_Comedy_] Metastasio, Martelli, Maffei, Gozzi,
Pindemonti, Monti, Flavio, Goldoni.

_SPAIN AND PORTUGAL_

[_Spain_] Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Alarcon,
Gongora, Argensola, Moreto, de Hoz, Canizarez,
Luzan, Huerta.
[_Portugal_] Saa de Miranda, Gil Vincente, Ferreira,
Garcao.

_FRANCE_
Etienne Jodelle, Garnier, Larivey, Montcrétien,
Hardi, Viaud, Scudéri, Corneille, Boisrobert, Chevreau,
Scarron, de Bergerac, Quinault, Molière,
Boursault, Racine, Voltaire, l’Hermite, Rotrou,
Crébillon, Le Sage, Beaumarchais, Longpierre, Fontenelli,
La Motte, Legrand, Destouches, Marivaux,
Sardou, Hugo, Dumas, Scribe, Zola, Legouvé, Augier,
Halévy, Le Maitre, De Vigny.

_HOLLAND_
Hooft, Brederoo, Vondel, Vos, Goes, Pels, Asselijn,
van Focquenbroch, Bilderdijk.

_GERMANY_
Hans Sachs, Gryphius, Gottshed, Klopstock,
Wieland, Herder, Kozebue, Hafner, Goethe, Schiller,
Lessing, Novalis, Arnim, Hoffmann, Hrotsvitha of
Gandersheim, Kleist, Grillparzer, Schlegel, Freytag,
Heyse, Gutzkow, Wagner, Werner, Körner, Klingemann,
Uhland, Chamisso, Arndt, Heine, Grabbe,
Immermann, Weise, Grinunelohausen, Klinger, Ludwig,
Laube, Holm, Giebel, Wildenbruch, Angengruber,
Nestroy, Raimund.

_SCANDINAVIA_
Holberg, Oehlenschläger, J. L. Heiberg, Bjornson,
Wessel, Ewald, Hauch, Hostrup, Hertz, Paludan-Müller,
Overskou, Ibsen, Lidner, Tegner, Runeberg,
Blanche, Strindberg, Kielland, Lie.

_RUSSIA_
Sumarokoff, Catherine II, Von Viezin, Krilov,
Astrovski, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Tchekhof, Griboyedov.

_AMERICA_
Royal Tyler, John Howard Payne, Boker, Longfellow,
Wm. Young, N. P. Willis, Dion Boucicault,
John Brougham, Augustin Daly, Steele MacKaye,
Bronson Howard, James A. Herne, Clyde Fitch,
William Vaughn Moody.

_GREAT BRITAIN_
Beaumont, Fletcher, Jonson, Shirley, Greene,
Peele, Webster, Ford, Massinger, Middleton, Heywood,
Lyly, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Dekker, Marston:—Dryden,
Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh,
Otway, Etheredge, d’Urfey, Farquhar, d’Avenant,
Sedley, Lacy, Shadwell, Crowne, Steele, Addison,
Rowe:—Goldsmith, Sheridan, Fielding, Shelley:—Knowles,
Lytton, Robertson, Tennyson, Browning,
Reade, Taylor, Wilde:—Phillips, Synge, Hankin,
Davidson.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Information for Communities, Clubs, Societies, and Drama
League Centres throughout the Country about

Mr. PERCY MACKAYE’S

SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY MASQUE
Entitled
“_CALIBAN: BY THE YELLOW SANDS_”

Doubleday, Page & Company have pleasure in announcing Mr. MacKaye’s Masque, which in many respects has become the national tribute of the New York Shakespeare Celebration, the Shakespeare National Memorial Committee, and The Drama League of America for the anniversary of 1916.

The publication of the Masque has been hurried as much as possible in order to give communities, societies, colleges, and Drama League centres throughout the country an opportunity to read the text and thus arrange their celebrations in harmony with the Masque.

The first performances of the Masque will be given by the New York Shakespeare Celebration during the week of May 23d, when it will be enacted out of doors, at night, in the City College Stadium adapted to seat about 20,000 spectators. There several thousand citizens of New York will take part in conjunction with a body of actors of national repute. It will then be released for use by other communities or societies on June 1st. Immediately after the close of the New York performances, a professional company will take the Masque on the road for presentation by them in conjunction with community and club groups throughout the country. The professional company will fill the leading parts and take with them a complete outfit of scenery and properties. For full particulars, address the Chairman of the National Circuit Committee, 736 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, Ill., or, Augustin Duncan, 50 West 12th St., New York City.

Amateur performances of the Masque may also be given after June 1st, without the aid of the professional company, by making proper arrangements for securing permission. Full directions for amateur performances, or for public readings where seats are sold, may be had from Miss Alice Houston, National Headquarters, Drama League of America, Chicago, Ill.

The Drama League of America strongly recommends to its centres the use of the Masque as the special League reading for April. The text will be available in two editions: Paper at 50 cents and Cloth at $1.25 or thereabouts.

The Drama League hopes to establish in the near future a _Pageant Series_, similar to the _Play Series_, of which “Caliban” by Mr. MacKaye would be the first volume.

_REMEMBER THESE POINTS_

“_CALIBAN: BY THE YELLOW SANDS_”
By Percy MacKaye. A National tribute to
Shakespeare for 1916. Endorsed by the Drama
League of America.

_FIRST PERFORMANCE_
New York, May 23d, by citizens and notable
group of professional actors.

_RELEASED FOR GENERAL USE_
June 1st. Acting rights may be secured as indicated
below:—

_PERFORMANCES BY COMMUNITIES OR
CLUBS WITH PROFESSIONAL COMPANY_
Full particulars may be had by addressing Miss
Alice M. Houston, Chairman Circuit Committee,
Drama League of America, 1426 Forest Ave.,
Evanston, Ill.

_ALL-AMATEUR PERFORMANCES_
Full particulars may be had by addressing Miss
Clara Fitch, Chairman Shakespeare Tercentenary
Committee, 736 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, Ill.

_PUBLIC READINGS WHERE SEATS ARE SOLD_
For particulars address Miss Houston (as above).

_THE PRINTED BOOK OF THE MASQUE_
Paper edition 50 cents. Cloth edition $1.25 net.
For sale everywhere at book shops or by Doubleday,
Page & Company, Garden City, New York.

New York City
Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration

CIVIC ORGANIZATION

MISS MARY PORTER BEEGLE, _Chairman_

MRS. AXEL O. IHLSENG, _Executive Secretary_
10 EAST 43D STREET, NEW YORK CITY
Telephone, Murray Hill 9745

_Supplementary Celebrations_ _Chairman of Finance_
MISS KATE OGLEBAY, _Chairman_ MR. W. FORBES MORGAN, JR.
MISS FERN CLAWSON, _Vice-Chairman_ _Executive Chairman_
MR. EVERARD THOMPSON
_Advisory on Forms of Celebrations_ _Masque Committee Chairman_
MISS JOSEPHINE BEIDERHASE MRS. SIMEON FORD
MISS FRANCES E. CLARKE _Music_
MR. ARTHUR FARWELL MR. HARRY BIRNBAUM
MR. WM. CHAUNCY LANGDON
MISS AZUBAH LATHAM _Organizing Director of the Masque_
MISS CONSTANCE MACKAY
Mr. GARNET HOLME
Telephone, Greeley 1137

Board of Directors
PROF. ALLAN ABBOTT DR. GEORGE F. KUNZ
MISS MARY PORTER BEEGLE HOWARD KYLE
DR. WILLIAM E. BOHN MISS OLIVIA LEVENTRITT
CRANSTON BRENTON MRS. PHILIP M. LYDIG
JOHN COLLIER W. FORBES MORGAN, JR.
MISS LAURA SEDGWICK COLLINS MRS. M. FAIRCHILD OSBORN
MRS. AUGUST DREYER MISS FLORENCE OVERTON
MAX EASTMAB REV. DR. JOSEPH SILVERMAN
MRS. WILLIAM EINSTEIN PROF. EDMUND BRONK SOUTHWICK
MRS. SIMEON FORD MR. M. J. STROOCK
MRS. DANIEL GUGGENHEIM MR. EVERARD THOMPSON
MRS. J. NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE

THE SHAKESPEARE CELEBRATION

will present
in the Lewisohn Stadium of the College of the City of New York
on the nights of May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 1916, at Eight O’clock

_The Community Masque_

CALIBAN
By the Yellow Sands

PRODUCTION STAFF

_Author and Director_
PERCY MACKAYE

_Composer and Director of Music_
ARTHUR FARWELL

_Producers_
JOSEPH URBAN
RICHARD ORDYNSKI

_Designer of Inner Scenes_
ROBERT EDMOND JONES

_Director of Interludes_
GARNET HOLME

_Director of Costumes_
MRS. JOHN W. ALEXANDER

_Director of Dances_
MRS. ROBERT ANDERSON

_Staff Assistant_
HAZEL MACKAYE

Office of the Director: 529 Marbridge Bldg. (34th St. & 6th Ave.);
telephone, Greeley 1137.

For particulars regarding Tickets, etc., communication should be made
with the office of the Shakespeare Celebration, 10 East 43d St.,
New York. Telephones, Murray Hill 9745 and 4158.

THE MAYOR’S HONORARY COMMITTEE
For the New York Shakespeare Celebration
OTTO H. KAHN, _Chairman_.

HERBERT ADAMS REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
DR. FELIX ADLER FREDERIC C. HOWE
JACOB P. ADLER ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES
JOHN G. AGAR MRS. PAUL KENNADAY
ROBERT AITKEN DR. J. J. KINDRED
WINTHROP AMES DARWIN P. KINGSLEY
DONN BARBER LEE KOHNS
JOSEPH BARONDESS DR. GEORGE F. KUNZ
MRS. AUGUST BELMONT THOMAS W. LAMONT
GUTZON BORGLUM DR. HENRY M. LEIPSIGER
CHANCELLOR ELMER E. BROWN ADOLPH LEWISOHN
HENRY BRUERE M. J. LAVELLE, V.G.
ARNOLD BRUNNER WALTER LIPPMANN
PRES. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER PHILIP LYDIG
ABRAHAM CAHAN CLARENCE H. MACKAY
MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR CHANDLER MISS ELIZABETH MARBURY
WILLIAM M. CHASE EDWIN MARKHAM
JOSEPH H. CHOATE MISS HELEN MAROT
THOMAS W. CHURCHILL DR. BRANDER MATTHEWS
PAUL D. CRAVATH REV. HOWARD MELISH
JOHN D. CRIMMINS DR. APPLETON MORGAN
GEORGE CROMWELL J. P. MORGAN
R. FULTON CUTTING DR. HENRY MOSKOWITZ
WALTER DAMROSCH ADOLPH S. OCHS
R. S. DAVIS RALPH PULITZER
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ROBT. W. DE FOREST W. C. REICK
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CLEVELAND H. DODGE JACOB M. SCHIFF
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MRS. H. EDWARD DREIER FRANCIS LYNDE STETSON
MAX EASTMAN FREDERIC A. STOKES
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NED ARDEN FLOOD OSCAR S. STRAUS
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BERTRAM C. GOODHUE MRS. WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT
RT. REV. DAVID H. GREER OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
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MRS. DANIEL GUGGENHEIM DR. JAMES J. WALSH
MRS. BENJAMIN GUINESS CABOT WARD
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MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN CHARLES D. WETMORE
WILLIAM LAUREL HARRIS EDWARD J. WHEELER
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TIMOTHY HEALY THOMAS W. WHITTLE
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GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The words of Shakespeare used in this Masque, are quoted from the Tudor Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, edited by Neilson and Thorndike (Macmillan). The stage directions and cuts, however, are not taken from any edition, but have been made by me for purposes of the Inner Scenes.

[2] In this book these Inner Scenes are printed in black-faced type.

[3] This is the motive of Mr. Robert Edmond Jones’ cover design for this volume.

[4] An outline of suggestions on this subject I published in a volume, “The Civic Theatre, in Relation to the Redemption of Leisure” [1912]. Further ideas and their applications are contained in the prefaces and dramatic texts of my Bird Masque “Sanctuary,” “Saint Louis: A Civic Masque,” and “The New Citizenship,” a Civic Ritual.

[5] The outgoing cost of the Saint Louis production was $122,000; the income $139,000. The balance of $17,000 has been devoted to a fund for civic art. The cost of producing a single play by Sophocles at Athens was $500,000.

[6] Page 71, on Constructive Leisure (Mitchell Kennerley, 1912).

[7] New York, 1915, Macmillan.

[8] See Appendix, page 154.

[9] The Masque Proper consists of the Prologue and Three Acts, without the Inner Scenes and the Epilogue and Interludes.

[10] Visualized by a Super-puppet.

[11] Visualized by an idol.

[12] See Appendix: Pages 207-216.

[13] The more detailed description of this Interlude is given in the Appendix, pages 162 to 183.

[14]

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne,
Burn’d on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.... For her own person,
It beggar’d all description: she did lie
In her pavilion—cloth-of-gold of tissue—
O’er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy out-work nature. On each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With diverse-color’d fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool....
Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i’ the eyes,
And made their bends adornings. At the helm
A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,
That yarely frame the office. From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs.”
—[_Antony and Cleopatra_: II, 2. Shakespeare.]

The charm and splendor of this description applies here only to the beauty of the barge and those it bears: otherwise Cleopatra and her attendants are, in their appearance, distraught and fearful, and the barge shows signs of recent perilous escape from the scene of Antony’s sea-battle with Octavius Cæsar.

Being here conceived as a plastic vision in the mind of Prospero, this Inner Scene—an excerpt from Act III, Scene XI, of Shakespeare’s play—has, by dramatic license appropriate to this masque, been laid in a scene suggested by the above description of the barge.

[15] During this scene, Caliban—watching intently—slides from the steps of the throne and crawls slowly forward on his stomach to the centre, where he lies prone, with head lifted—his body pointed toward the Inner stage—kicking at times his lower legs [from the knees] in the air.

[16] For fuller description of this Interlude, see Appendix, pages 184-194.

[17] From Shakespeare’s “King Henry the Eighth,” Act I, Scene 1.

[18] From Shakespeare’s “King Henry the Eighth,” Act I, Scene 1.

[19] See Appendix, pages 196-204, for more detailed description.

[20] For details of these Epilogue groups, see Appendix, pages 205-216.

[21] The plan for this India episode is based on a ritual scene of the ancient Hindu drama “Shakuntala,” by Kalidasa, translated by Garnet Holme and Arthur W. Ryder, and recently produced by the authors in California. The translation is published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1914. Those communities that may desire to include this Action in their local festivals should communicate with Mr. Garnet Holme, care of The Shakespeare Celebration, 10 East 43rd Street, New York City.

[22] The revolving of the disk, of course, is apparent only, not real. Actually, the disk remains motionless; it appears to revolve because of the motion of the Priests around it.

[23] See “Kings and Gods of Egypt,” Alexandre Moret; pp. 69-108.

[24] Similarly before each of the Actions of each Interlude, Prospero makes a brief explanatory comment to Ariel (and thus to the audience).

[25] The Choregus was the Producer, usually a man of great wealth.

[26] In one hand Pantomimus carries a wand resembling a caduceus, but differing from that of Mercury in that the heads of the twining snakes are carved as little masks of comedy, and the tip of the wand, to which the flying wings are affixed, is the shining disk of a mirror, into which at times Pantomimus peers quaintly at his reflection.

[27] The Pantomime is adapted from a Roman Interlude by the author in his drama “Sappho and Phaon.”

[28] This Theme inheres in an excerpt from Shakespeare’s “King Henry VIII,” Act I, Scene I, quoted by Ariel as Prologue to the Sixth Inner Scene of the Masque, for which the actual dialogue of no Shakespeare Scene dealing with France appears so appropriate for the Masque’s uses as a pantomime based on this excerpt from Henry VIII.

[29] The words _Winter_ and _Spring_ refer to the respective Groups.

[30] The water is represented by the blue ground, beyond the verge of the Yellow Sands.

[31] Here the play-actors enact a scene from the old play of “Noah’s Flood.”

[32] The Action here described, like that of all the preceding Interludes, is simply a preliminary outline, subject to modification and development at rehearsals.

[33] With this number several hundred of the Interlude participants and Masque figurants are to be correlated in the final ensemble.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_
in the original text.
Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals.
Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up paragraphs.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations
in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.

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