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Edgar Lee Masters. The open sea
The open sea
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PART ONE. THE OPEN SEA
BRUTUS. BRUTUS AND ANTONY (Lucilius Talks at a Feast Given to Aristocrates in Rome.) BC 20
THE OPEN SEA
BRUTUS
AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (April 10th, 1613)
CHARLOTTE CORDAY (The Revolutionary Tribunal; July 17th, 1793)
A MAN CHILD IS BORN (February 12th, 1809. Log Hut near Hodgenville, Ky.) (A neighbor woman is talking)
RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS (London, December 13th, 1813.)
A MAN CHILD IS BORN (July 14th, 1839. The Farm.) (Mrs. Booth is speaking.)
SQUIRE BOWLING GREEN (Rutledge’s Tavern, New Salem, July 14th, 1839.)
LINCOLN SPEAKING IN CONGRESS (January 12th, 1848.)
JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (January 12th, 1848.)
JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH (On a steamboat bound for Cincinnati from New Orleans, November 30th, 1852.)
A CERTAIN POET ON THE DEBATES (At Alton, Illinois, October 15th, 1858.) (Arguing with a group at the hotel.)
PART II
THE DECISION (April 14th, 1861.)
PART III
LINCOLN MAKES A MEMORANDUM
WINTER GARDEN THEATRE
THE SPARROW HAWK IN THE RAIN
ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH (At the National Hall, Washington, April 9, 1865.)
BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH (Ford’s Theatre, Good Friday, April 14th, 1865.)
Scene II. The White House
Scene III. The entrance of Ford’s Theatre
Scene IV. Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln Driving to the Theatre
Scene V. The stage of Ford’s Theatre
Scene VI. Back of the stage
Scene VII. The Presidential Box
Scene VIII. Dress Circle
Scene IX. In the passageway leading to the Presidential box
Scene X. The Presidential box
Scene XI. Booth at the door of the Presidential box aiming a pistol
Scene XII. On the stage
BOOTH’S PHILIPPI (Garrett’s Tobacco House, Bowling Green, Virginia, April 26th, 1865. Booth and Harrold.)
SCENE I
Scene II. (At the Garrett House.)
Scene III. (Inside the Tobacco House.)
Scene IV. (At the Garrett House.)
Scene V. (Inside the Tobacco House.)
Scene VI. (Boston Corbett looking through a crack in the Tobacco House at Booth amid the flames.)
Scene VII. (On the lawn.)
THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT
THE NEW APOCRYPHA
BUSINESS REVERSES
THE FIG TREE (Matthew, Chapter XXI.)
TRIBUTE MONEY (Matthew, Chapter XXII: 24–27.)
THE GREAT MERGER (Exodus, Chapter XX.)
AT DECAPOLIS (Mark, Chapter V.)
1. THE ACCUSATION
2. JESUS BEFORE MAGISTRATE AHAZ
THE SINGLE STANDARD (St. John, Chapter VIII.)
FIRST ENTRANTS (St. Matthew, Chapter XXII: 31.)
JOHN IN PRISON (St. Luke, Chapter XVI. St. Matthew, Chapter XI.)
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA
THE TWO MALEFACTORS
BERENICE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR: OR EATING GRASS
HIP LUNG ON YUAN CHANG
ULYSSES
THE PARTY
CELSUS AT HADRIAN’S VILLA
INVOCATION TO THE GODS
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
PENTHEUS IN THESE STATES
I
II
III
IV
V
COMPARATIVE CRIMINALS
THE GREAT RACE PASSES
DEMOS THE DESPOT
A REPUBLIC
THE INN
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM MARION REEDY
I
II
III
GOD AND MY COUNTRY
THE DUNES OF INDIANA
NATURE
