Fashion by Anna Cora Mowatt Full Text

Dedication [edit]

To WALTER WATTS, ESQ.,

ONE of the most liberal supporters of the Drama, whose desire to drag and purify it--whose appreciation and patronage of its humblest as, well equally highest talent--whose liberality and consideration to all with whom the profession connects him--and whose efforts to found harmony among them, while he promotes the interest of all, are beyond eulogium, the Comedy of "FASHION" is respectfully dedicated, with the grateful acknowledgments of

ANNA CORA MOWATT.

Preface [edit]

THE Comedy of Fashion was intended as a practiced-natured satire upon some of the follies incident to a new land, where foreign dross sometimes passes for gilt, while native gold is cast aside as dross; where the vanities rather than the virtues of other lands are too often imitated, and where the stamp of fashion gives currency fifty-fifty to the coinage of vice.

The reception with which the One-act was favoured proves that the motion-picture show represented was non a highly exaggerated i.

It was starting time produced at the Park Theatre, New York, in March, 1845.

The splendid manner in which the play was put upon the stage, and the combined efforts of an extremely talented company, ensured information technology a long continued success. It was after received with the same indulgence in all the principal cities of the United States, for which the authoress is doubtless indebted to the proverbial gallantry of Americans to a countrywoman.

A. C. M.

London, January, 1850.

Dramatis Personae [edit]

Adam Trueman: a farmer from Catteraugus

Count Jolimaitre: a fashionable European Importation

Colonel Howard: an Officer in the U. Due south. Army.

Mr. Tiffany: a New York merchant.

T. Tennyson Twinkle: a modern poet

Augustus Fogg: a drawing room appendage

Snobson: a rare species of confidential clerk

Zeke: a colored retainer

Mrs. Tiffany: a lady who imagines herself fashionable.

Prudence: a maiden lady of a certain historic period.

Millinette: a French lady's maid

Gertrude: a governess

Seraphina Tiffany: a Belle

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Brawl Room

Costumes [edit]

Adam Trueman.--Offset Dress: A farmer's rough overcoat, coarse blue trousers, heavy boots, wide-brimmed hat, dark coloured neckerchief, stout walking stick, big bandanna tied loosely around his neck.--2d dress: Dark grey old-fashioned coat, black and yellow waistcoat, trousers as before.--3rd dress: Black old-fashioned dress cost, blackness trousers, white vest, white cravat.

Count Jolimaitre.--First dress: Dark frock coat, calorie-free blue trousers, patent leather boots, gay coloured vest and scarf, profusion of jewellery, low-cal overcoat.--Second dress: Full evening apparel; last scene, travelling cap and cloak.

Mr. Tiffany.--First dress: Dark coat, vest, and trousers.--2nd dress: Full evening dress.

Mr. Twinkle.--Get-go dress: Green frock glaze, white vest and trousers, green and white scarf.--2d dress: Full evening dress.

Mr. Fogg.--Outset apparel: Entire black suit.--2nd apparel: Fall evening clothes, same colour.

Snobson. --Showtime wearing apparel: Blue Albert coat with brass buttons, yellow vest, red and blackness cravat, broad plaid trousers.--2nd wearing apparel: Evening dress.

Col. Howard.--Offset clothes: Blue undress apron coat and cap, white trousers.--Second wearing apparel: Full military compatible.

Zeke.--Red and blue livery, artsy lid, &c.

Mrs. Tiffany.--Starting time apparel: Extravagant modern dress.--Second clothes: Hat, feathers, and drape, with the above.-3rd apparel: Morning apparel.-4th dress: Rich brawl dress.

Serafina.--First dress: Rich modernistic dress, lady's tarpaulin on one side of head.--Second dress: Morn clothes.--Third dress: Handsome ball dress, profusion of ornaments and flowers.-Fourth clothes: Bonnet and mantle.

Gertrude.--Beginning wearing apparel: White muslin.--2d dress: Ball apparel, very simple.

Millinette.--Ladies Maid'due south dress, very gay.

Prudence.--Black satin, very narrow in the brim, tight sleeves, white muslin apron, neckerchief of the same, folded over bosom, old-fashioned cap, high top and broad frill, and red ribbons.

Exits and entrances [edit]

R. means Right; 50., Left; R. 1 E., Right First Entrance; ii H., Second Entrance; D. F., Door in the Flat.

Relative positions [edit]

R. means Right; L., Left: C., Centre; R. C., Right of Centre: L. C., Left of Centre.

The reader is supposed to be on the Stage facing the Audience.

The Play [edit]

• Prologue
• Act I
• Human activity II
• Act III
• Human action Iv
• Act V

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