THE SHOP-GIRL (struggling to free herself): They’re looking! ONE OF THE FENCERS (receiving a thrust): A hit! I made free to provide myself with light at my master’s expense!Ī GUARDSMAN (to a shop-girl who advances): ‘Twas prettily done to come before the lights were lit! THE FIRST (showing him cards and dice which he takes from his doublet): See, here be cards and dice.įIRST LACKEY (taking from his pocket a candle-end, which he lights, and sticks on the floor): (They fence with the foils they have brought.) Come, a bout with the foils to pass the time. THE DOORKEEPER (to another trooper who enters): And you? Why? I am of the King’s Household Cavalry, ‘faith! (A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door. Cuigy, Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.

Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a pickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. The lusters are lowered in the middle of the pit ready to be lighted. On the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, red placards bearing the words, ‘La Clorise.’Īt the rising of the curtain the hall is in semi-darkness, and still empty. A large door, half open to let in the spectators. The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the gallery of the boxes. An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats.

Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Above a harlequin’s mantle are the royal arms. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc.Ī Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne.

Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F.

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