Afterglow Fuller, Henry Blake Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Henry Blake Fuller, 1857 – 1929 Afterglow [in, The Puppet-Booth: Twelve Plays by Henry B. Fuller ...] New York The Century Co. 212 p. Critic Leading Lady Lisbeth Elsa Niece Poet Dramatic Poet Nieve Ex-Manager Maid-servant Waldemar One-act Prose data extraction from source 1896
PERSONS. The Dramatic Poet . An Old Critic . His Niece . The Leading Lady (retired). The Ex-Manager of the Her Son . Court Theater . A Maid-servant .
A domestic interior in the environs of one of the Northern capitals. A bookcase full of pompous old volumes. A desk crammed with dusty and disordered papers. A floor-rug littered with journals from which excerpts have been made by hasty tearing or clipping. Present: the Maid-servant , who has an idle duster in one hand and a packet of manuscript in the other.
The Maid-servant ( considering the packet of manuscript ).

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[The street-door opens suddenly. Enter, briskly, the Poet's Niece , returned from a walk. She advances directly toward the Maid-servant The Niece .

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The Maid-servant .

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The Niece .

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The Maid-servant ( snatching a letter from the corner of the Poet's desk ).

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The Niece .

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The Maid-servant .

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The Niece .

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The Maid .

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The Niece ( taking the manuscript ).

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The Niece .

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The Maid .

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The Niece ( reading the letter ).

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The Maid .

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The Niece .

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The Niece .

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The Niece .

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The Maid .

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[Enter the Dramatic Poet — a small, thin, sour and discontented man. He falls straightway upon the morning's mail, regardless of his Niece , who hovers in the background with her attention divided between her own letter and Lisbeth's manuscript.] The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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The Poet .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa ( whose attention is drawn by his signs of surprise and dismay ).

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa .

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The Poet .

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Elsa ( to Lisbeth ).

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Lisbeth quickly brings the disordered room to rights, — desk, bookcase, rug. A knock at the street-door. Enter the Leading Lady and her Son — both dressed in black.] Lisbeth ( with a deference that approaches solemnity ).

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Lisbeth passes out. The new-comers take chairs and look about the room with a mournful interest.] The Leading Lady .

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Waldemar .

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The Leading Lady .

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Waldemar .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Leading Lady .

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[Another knock at the street-door. Two elderly men, also in black, are admitted by Lisbeth . Inasmuch as they advance direct toward the Leading Lady, Lisbeth yields them to her and withdraws. But they speak no word; they shake her hand and then dejectedly seat themselves close to each other on the opposite side of the room. — A long pause.] The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Critic .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Leading Lady .

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[The door opens. They lapse into a decorous silence. Elsa enters. Waldemar hastens across to her and takes her hand.] Waldemar .

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Elsa .

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Waldemar .

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Elsa .

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Elsa .

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Waldemar .

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Elsa .

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Waldemar .

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Elsa .

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Waldemar .

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Elsa .

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[They seat themselves side by side; all five preserve the deepest silence. The Poet enters, deep in Lisbeth's manuscript.] The Poet ( unconscious of any presence ).

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[He starts suddenly at sight of a roomful of strangers. The three elder ones rise and advance toward him with faces full of deep commiseration.] The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Critic .

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[The Poet , coming to himself and to the situation, bows with an air of shocked solemnity.] The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Critic .

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[The Poet looks from one to another out of the midst of a maze of conflicting emotions.] The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Critic .

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[The Poet bows gravely and turns away his face.] The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Critic .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Ex-Manager ( taking up the part of the Roman father ).

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The Poet ( breaking in ).

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The Critic .

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The Poet ( proceeding in the person of the Roman lover, while Waldemar and Elsa look on and listen with a fascinated interest ).

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[He opens the book with quick decision and places it in the Ex-Manager's hand; the three parts are then carried on to the satisfaction of the Critic , the eager interest of Waldemar and Elsa , and the intense delight of Lisbeth, who (poised in the doorway) finds herself fully in her element at last.] The Poet ( after many cues have been taken and many sounding lines recited ).

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The Poet .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Poet .

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The Leading Lady .

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Waldemar ( as the Poet hesitates ).

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The Critic .

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Leading Lady .

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The Poet .

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Elsa . ( pointing to Lisbeth in the doorway ).

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The Poet .

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Lisbeth ( advancing ).

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The Critic .

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Waldemar ( holding Elsa's hand ).

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The Ex-Manager .

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The Poet ( holding Gertrude Kronborg's hand ).

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