Chapter I: Front Matter

Number 400. COMPLETE. One Penny.

DICKS’ STANDARD PLAYS.

JANE EYRE.

ADAPTED BY JOHN BROUGHAM.

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_Vol. 7, contains_: The Belle’s Stratagem—The Farm House—Gustavus Vasa—The First Floor—Deaf and Dumb—The Honest Thieves—The Beaux’ Stratagem—The Tobacconist—The Earl of Essex—The Haunted Tower—The Good-Natured Man—The Citizen—All for Love—The Siege of Damascus—The Follies of a Day—The Liar—The Brothers—Lodoiska—The Heiress—The Dragon of Wantley.

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_Vol. 10, contains_: The Bashful Man—The Carmelite—Duplicity—Three Weeks After Marriage—Old Martin’s Trials—The Cheats of Scapin—Abroad and at Home—Animal Magnetism—Lovers’ Vows—My Spouse and I—Know Your Own Mind—The Apprentice—The Bohemians—The Register Office—The Sultan—Love for Love—The Chances—Miller of Mansfield—The Tender Husband—The Guardian.

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JANE EYRE.

A DRAMA, IN FIVE ACTS.

ADAPTED FROM CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S NOVEL, BY JOHN BROUGHAM.

Dramatis Personæ.

_First Performed at Laura Keene’s Varieties, New York, 1856._

FAIRFAX ROCHESTER Mr. George Jordan.
LORD THEODORE INGRAM Mr. Dickerson.
COLONEL DENT Mr. Hall.
MR. BROCKLEHURST Mr. Bass.
JOHN DOWNEY Mr. T. B. Johnston.
MR. WOOD Mr. Reeve
JANE EYRE Miss Laura Keene.
THE DOWAGER LADY INGRAM Miss Wells.
LADY BLANCHE INGRAM Miss Kate Reynolds.
LADY MARY INGRAM Miss Close.
MISS TEMPLE Miss Walters.
MRS. GRYCE Mrs. Scott.
MISS SCATCHERD Mrs. Lesdernier.
GRACE POOL Mrs. Carpenter.
MRS. COL. DENT Miss Macdonough.
MRS. ESRTON Miss Johnson.
THE MANIAC WIFE Mrs. Lesdernier.

CHARACTERS IN THE CHARADE.

THE BRIDE Miss K. Reynolds.
BRIDESMAIDS Misses Brown and Smith.
REBECCA AT THE WELL Mrs. R. Scott.
JACOB Mr. W. Dempster.
PRISONER Mr. Haywood.
PRISONER’S WIFE Miss Haywood.

COSTUME.

ROCHESTER.—_1st Dress_: Riding-coat—high boots—broad hat. _2nd
Dress_: Gipsy disguise. _3rd Dress_: Long gray coat—loose vest.

INGRAM.—Elegant evening dress.

COL. DENT.—Evening dress, quaint.

BROCKLEHURST.—Black dress.

JOHN DOWNEY.—_1st Dress_: Plain livery, _2nd Dress_: Country
boy’s dress.

WOOD.—Dress of clergyman.

JANE EYRE.—_1st Dress_: Very plain dark charity-school dress.
_2nd Dress_: Black silk. _3rd Dress_: Wedding-dress. _4th
Dress_: Plain travelling-dress.

DOWAGER LADY INGRAM.—Elegant evening dress.

LADY BLANCHE AND MARY.—Ditto.

MISS TEMPLE }
MISS GRYCE } Same as Jane Eyre’s first dress.
MISS SCATCHERD }

GRACE POOL.—_1st Dress_: Very grotesque chambermaid’s dress.
_2nd Dress_: Country girl’s dress.

STAGE DIRECTIONS.

EXITS AND ENTRANCES.—R. means _Right_; L. _Left_; D. F. _Door
in Flat_; R. D. _Right Door_; L. D. _Left Door_; S. E. _Second
Entrance_; U. E. _Upper Entrance_; M. D. _Middle Door_; L. U.
E. _Left Upper Entrance_; R. U. E. _Right Upper Entrance_;
L. S. E. _Left Second Entrance_; P. S. _Prompt Side_; O. P.
_Opposite Prompt_.

RELATIVE POSITIONS.—R. means _Right_; L. _Left_; C. _Centre_;
R. C. _Right of Centre_; L. C. _Left of Centre_.

R. RC. C. LC. L.

⁂ _The Reader is supposed to be on the Stage, facing the Audience._

JANE EYRE.