Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Romantic Drama, in Four Acts Entitiled: The Scarlet Letter, Dramatized From Nathaniel Hawthorne's Massively Romance
Exterior of a Prison, painted on ?at. The building represents an old-fashioned wooden structure with wooden steps, leading up to an oaken door, with iron cross bars across the centre. Black back ing used. On each side of the door are small windows with iron bars. On the right of the door, painted on the scene, is a rose bush, in full bloom, running up the face of the house. On each side of the house is a rough stone-wall eight feet high, with sharp iron pickets running along its top. Trees are seen beyond as if standing in the prison yard. The scene is strong in character. A crowd of men, women, squaws and children are discovered stand ing and sitting around in groups. Mistress Small, Gossip, Mary Mercy, Master Townsman, Rawson and others, Standing in centre of stage.
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