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Giles Corey of the Salem Farms

  
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

  
PROLOGUE.
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ACT I.
 1.1. 
I. — The woods near Salem Village.
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II. — A room at JUSTICE HATHORNE'S. A clock in the corner.
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III. — A room in WALCOT'S House. MARY WALCOT seated in an arm-chair. TITUBA with a mirror.
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ACT II
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I. — GILES COREY's farm. Morning.
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II. — The Green in front of the Meeting-house in Salem village. People coming and going.
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III. — COREY's kitchen. A table with supper. MARTHA knitting.
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ACT III.
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I. — GILES COREY'S kitchen. Morning. COREY and MARTHA sitting at the breakfast-table.
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II. — A street in Salem Village.
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III. — A room in COREY's house. MARTHA and two Deacons of the church.
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IV. — Meadows on Ipswich River, COREY and his men mowing; COREY in advance.
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ACT IV
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I. — The Green in front of the village Meeting-house. An excited crowd gathering.
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II. — Interior of the Meeting-house. MATHER and the Magistrates seated in front of the pulpit. Before them a raised platform. MARTHA in chains. COREY near her. MARY WALCOT in a chair. A crowd of spectators, among them GLOYD. Confusion and murmurs during the scene.
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ACT V.
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I. — Corey's farm as in Act II., Scene I.
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II.. — The prison. GILES COREY at a table on which are some papers.
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III— A street in the Village.
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IV. — A field near the graveyard, GILES COREY lying dead, with a great stone on his breast. The Sheriff at his head, RICHARD GARDNER at his feet. A crowd behind. The bell tolling.

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

illustration [Description: Ornamental titlepage engraving with leaves,flowers, and a cherub.]

  • GILES COREY Farmer.
  • JOHN HATHORNE Magistrate.
  • COTTON MATHER Minister of the Gospel.
  • JONATHAN WALCOT A youth.
  • RICHARD GARDNER Sea-Captain.
  • JOHN GLOYD Corey's hired man.
  • MARTHA Wife of Giles Corey.
  • TITUBA An Indian woman.
  • MARY WALCOT One of the Afflicted.

The Scene is in Salem in the year 1692.

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