Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste (Classic Reprint)

The first three acts of the comedy pass in the garden at Markswayde, MR. CARNABY LEETE Shouse near Reading, during a summer day toioards the close of the eighteenth century, the first act at four in the morning, the second shortly after mid-day, the third near to sunset. The fourth act takes place one day in the following winter; the first scene in the hall at Markswayde, the second scene in a cottage some ten miles off. This part of the Markswayde garden looks to have been laid out during the seventeenth century. In the middle a fountain; the centrepiece the figure of a nymph, now somewhat cracked, and pouring nothing from the amphora; the rim of the fountain is high enough and broad enough to be a comfortable seat. The close turf around is in parts worn bare. This plot, of ground is surrounded by a terrace three feet higher. Three sides of it are seen. From two corners broad steps lead doivn; stone urns stand at the bottom and top of the stone balustrades. The other two corners are rounded convexly into broad stone seats. A long the edges of the terrace are growing rose trees, close together; behind these, paths; behind those, shrubs and trees. No landscape is to be seen. A big copper beech overshadows the seat on the left. A silver birch droops over the seat on the right. The trees far to the left indicate an orchard, the few to the right are more of the garden sort. It is the height of summer, and after a long drought the rose trees are dilapidated.
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