Читать книгу The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 15 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Страница 1

A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX

PERSONS REPRESENTED

William Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreaker and Master Carpenter

Old Brodie, the Deacon’s Father

William Lawson, Procurator-Fiscal, the Deacon’s Uncle

Captain Rivers, an English Highwayman

Hunt, a Bow Street Runner

A Doctor

Walter Leslie

Mary Brodie, the Deacon’s Sister

Jean Watt, the Deacon’s Mistress

Vagabonds, Officers of the Watch, Men-servants

The Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday

Note. —Passages suggested for omission in representationare enclosed in parentheses, thus ( )