FRENCH'S STANDARD DRAMA. 1 Ion VOL. I. 3 The Lady of Lyons 4 Richelieu 5 The Wife 6 The Honeymoon 7 The School for Scandal 8 Money VOL. II. 9 The Stranger Price 13 Cents each.-Bound Volumes $1. 10 Grandfather Whitehead 11 Richard III 12 Love's Sacrifice 13 The Gamester 14 A Cure for the Heartache 15 The Hunchback 16 Don Cæsar de Bazan VOL. III. 17 The Poor Gentleman 18 Hamlet 19 Charles II 20 Venice Preserved 21 Pizarro 22 The Love Chase 23 Othello 24 Lend me Five Shillings VOL. IV. VOL. XI. 81 Julius Cæsar 82 Vicar of Wakefield 84 The Catspaw 85 The Passing Cloud 87 Rob Roy 88 George Barnwell 89 Ingomar 90 Sketches in India 92 Jane Shore 93 Corsican Brothers 94 Mind your own Business VOL. XIII. 99 Marco Spada 100 Nature's Nobleman 104 Katharine and Petruchio [Dream 105 Game of Love 111 Therese 112 La Tour de Nesle 113 Ireland As It Is 114 Sea of Ice 117 Forty Thieves 119 Romance and Reality VOL. XVI. 121 The Tempest 123 Carpenter of Rouen 125 Little Treasure 47 Iron Chest Fair Lady 127 Parents and Guardians 48 Faint Heart Never Won 128 Jewess VOL. XVII VOL. XXI. 161 All's Fair in Love 163 Self 164 Cinderella 165 Phantom 166 Franklin 167 The Gunmaker of 169 Son of the Night 170 Rory O'More VOL. XXXI. 241 Merry Wives of Windso 245 Michael Erle 173 Broken Sword 176 Heart of Mid Lothian 177 Actress of Padua VOL. XXIV. 187 Romance after Marriage 189 Poor of New York VOL. XXV. 195 Sixteen String Jack VOL. XXVI. 201 Adrienne the Actress 203 Jessie Brown 204 Asmodeus 205 Mormons VOL. XXXIII. 260 Rural Felicity 263 The Fireman 264 Grist to the Mill VOL. XXXIV. 265 Two Loves and a Life 266 Annie Blake 267 Steward 268 Captain Kyd 269 Nick of the Woods 270 Marble Heart 271 Second Love VOL. XXXV. 273 Breach of Promise 274 Review 275 Lady of the Lake VOL. XXXVI. 284 Ruth Oakley 134 Aline, or the Rose of 214 Armand, Mrs Mowatt 136 Jane Eyre VOL. XVIII. 137 Night and Morning 139 Three Guardsmen 141 Henriette, the Forsaken 64 Three Weeks after Mar- 65 Love 70 Town and Country VOL. X. 73 Henry VIII 74 Married and Single 78 Sweethearts and Wives 145 Dred, or the Dismal 217 Inconstant 218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 221 Miller of New Jersey 287 Giralda VOL. XXXVII. 292 Beatrice 293 Neighbor Jackwood 295 Robert Emmet VOL. XXXVIII. 222 Dark Hour before Dawn 301 Love's Labor Lost VOL. XXIX [Swamp 225 Poor Young Man 146 Last Days of Pompeii 149 Ben the Boatswain VOL. XX. 153 French Spy 226 Ossawatomie Brown 230 Man in the Iron Mask 231 Knight of Arva VOL. XXX. 233 Black Eyed Susan 154 Wept of Wish-ton Wish 234 Satan in Paris VOL. XXXIX. 305 The Lost Ship 306 Country Squire 307 Fraud and its Victims 314 Lavater, or Not a Bad 159 Life of an Actress OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. ARRANGED FOR REPRESENTATION AT LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE. WITH Historical and Explanatory Notes, COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORITIES BY LAURA KEENE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED A Description of the Costumes, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the whole of the Stage Business. New York: O. A. ROORBACH, JUN'R, 346 AND 348 BROADWAY. 1863. ORIGINAL CAST, As produced at Laura Keene's Theatre, Monday, April 18, 1859 Theseus, Duke of Athens.... Lysander, in love with Hermia.. . Mr. Couldock. { Mr. Sothern. Mr. Marden. Demetrius, his Rival.... Egeus, an Athenian Noble, father of Hermia { Philostrate, Master of the Revels.... Officers, Soldiers, &c., &c. Mr. Levick. Mr. Marden. THE HARD-HANDED MEN OF ATHENS. Singing Fairies, &c., &c. Miss Bullock. .Mary Jane Bullock. SCENE-Athens, and a Wood not far from it. The whole of the SCENERY painted by Mr. JOHN THORNE and Assistants. The DANCE arranged by Mdlle. KATARINA, The DECORATIONS, PROPERTIES and APPOINTMENTS by Mr. MATTHEWS and Assistants. MACHINERY by Mr. JOHN SMART and Assistants. DRESSES by J. BULLOCK and Assistants. The ELECTRIC, CALCINE and DRUMMOND LIGHTS by Mr. F. SCALLY. The whole of Mendelsohn's SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM, conducted by Mr. THOMAS BAKER. The Piece produced under the immediate direction of MISS LAURA KEENE. THESEUS. First dress: Armor of leather, elaborately ornamented with brass bosses-helmet-shield and sword. Second dress: Green chiton,* ornamented with tufts of hair-Phrygian cap-leopard skin on shoulder-russet cothurni.† Third dress: White chiton, embroidered with purple pallium or himation,‡ richly embroidered with gold, fastened on shoulder with broach jeweled girdle-collar and wristlets-fleshings and red cothurni, or high-ankled boot, laced in front. LYSANDER.-First dress: White linen chiton, embroidered with blue-cloth pallium, richly embroidered with gold-fleshings and red cothurni. DEMETRIUS.-First dress: White linen chiton, embroidered with red pallium, richly embroidered with gold-fleshings and cothurni. EGEUS. First dress: White chiton-brown pallium, trimmed with silver-fleshings and black cothurni. Second dress: Green chiton-gray chlamys, or scarf-hunting cap-javelin. * Chiton, as worn by males, was of white woolen stuff, reaching to the knee, gathered at the waist by a Zone, or Girdle, and trimmed according to taste. No sleeves.-Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary, page 1171. + Cothurnus (Greek), a boot, laced up the front. Its essential distinction was its height; it rose above the middle of the leg, so as to surround the calf, and sometimes reached as high as the knee. It was worn principally by horsemen, hunters, and men of rank and authority. Ancient marbles show that the cothurnus was often ornamented in a very tasteful and elaborate manner. -Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary, page 366. + Pallium or Himation.-The term cloak, though commonly adopted as the proper translation of these terms, conveys no accurate conception of the form, material, or use of that which they denoted. The article designated by them was always a rectangular piece of cloth, exactly, or at least nearly square. Hence it could easily be divided, without loss or waste, into four parts. (John, xix, 23.) It was generally worn in the very form in which it was taken from the loom, and whatever additional richness or beauty it received from the art of the dyer, was bestowed upon it before it was woven. Splendid and elegant tints were produced by the application of dye-stuffs-purple, red, blue, saffron and pale green being the favorite colors. The greatest splendour may be imparted by the use of gold thread in weaving. Homer represents Penelope weaving a purple blanket for Ulysses, which also displayed a beautiful huntingpiece wrought in gold. Women wore this garment as well as men, for we read that "Phocion's wife wore Phocion's pallium," but "Xanthippe would not wear that of her husband, Socrates."-Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary, page 850. $ Chlamys, a scarf.-This garment was for the most part woolen; and it dif fered from the Himation in these respects: that it was much smaller, finer, thinner, more variegated in color and more susceptible of ornament, besides being oblong instead of square, its length being generally about twice its breadth. It was generally assumed by the male sex upon reaching adolescence; and was also worn by the military, especially of high rank, over their body armor, and by hunters and travelers. It differed in color and fineness, according to the destination, age and rank of the wearer. Ths scarf worn by youths was probably yellow or saffron-colored; that of adults, scarlet. The hunter, however, commonly went out in a scarf of a dull, unconspicuous color, as best adapted to escape the notice of wild animals. There were, of course, various methods of wearing the Chlamys; in short, the remains of ancient art, of every description, show in how high a degree the scarf contributed, by its endless diversity of arrangement, to the display of the human form in its greatest beauty. The chlamys was not unfrequently used as a means of defense-the hunter, for instance, would wrap his chlamys round his left arm when pursuing wild animals; and Alcibiades is said to have died with his scarf rolled round his left hand, instead of a shield. |