Author: Amice Macdonell

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781330533611

Excerpt from Historical Plays for Children For this play one exit and entrance, right or left, is required. No proscenium curtain is necessary. Two of the boys, in acting clothes, come on the stage, after the Prologue and between the scenes, and arrange chairs, &c., in view of the audience. No scenery is needed. Places can be indicated by placards, as - "Palace of King Alfred." For all the scenes, curtains of some plain colour, green or brown Holland, for instance, make a good conventional background, across which a long evergreen garland, caught up at regular intervals, may be hung. To indicate a small room (such as the Neatherd's hut), a screen can be put in front of the background curtains. For outdoor scenes, large boughs set in a pot, or even wooden chairs completely covered with greenery, will represent bushes. Properties Act I Scene I. - Alfred's Childhood. In the Palace of King Ethelwulf. Two large chairs. Book. Bows and arrows. Act II Scene I. - About Twenty-four Years later. Early in 878. In King Alfred's Palace, Winchester. Three chairs. Bench. Table, with cups, jugs, food, drinking-horn, for a feast. Harp. Scene II. - Some Days later. Moorland in West Country. Bushes. Bundles. Books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.