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i-Ievs, he a scared "bright and lively".
After Autolycus's '.xit, the tableau curtains dor ed
again, to > icn on a act by Hawes Craven v;hich won general
ad ir;. tion:
... a for t glade in oil the b^uty of early
sunnier, Ghut in on either hand by .''. ' -in,:: wooded
hills and lending to a blue and placid lake,
beyond which in the £:>r distance is soen a liuo
of im and lofty 'omitrinc.
(Tlic 'Dramatic .Rcvi •••';/)
The Daily Newc ad irod tiac"rustic cott cc, : tone-built, one!
tnatohed" and "the overhanging era ,o and v/indint: paths, v.ith
the ,roy hills in the distance", and Scott, in The Daily
/.;e_.l;yiF^Iph» praiced the scene's Engli: nno; o. Al~: aif^h the
di t nt mountains anO the lake might be the landscape of rn
im; ;;iiirvry Belie .ii;:n ceabor.rd, t!ie woous and bracken were un—
mifjtakeably "old En land" ajid "remembrances of Cobham or Knole
or Arundel, but none the less welcome or ch ruing 11 , j^iq ._:.'--T.-.
mentioned Perdita's listening to "the ;ju, ic of the r.tro.":!lot",
but did not disclose whether real water w.s used on : b:.ce,
or itc sou.ic preoent only to the ii.i ^ina'tion.
Morizel iv; L discovered, laying i"ov,n hir, hat and clorl:
on a b. ilk at tlic audience'c left. The ro>jyb-co ->y iiic'ic tor:;
"brio, of looking in pool" - to enoure that he w-u iire;naroO
for a •: cting v/ith Per ita? Then the rjtc\n;o directions arc ac
f ollov/s:
3 chilc.ren on back L run a:-:. & off R.
Jan asleep H on bundle of far, 'otrj. 3 c'liil rrn
tickliii, iiis ear & girls lo -kii\ out of co'ot; :e
\vindow - Old .;l'.eo '.ore xec. -,:. to L. at back
v:.ootin^ 2 aerO.caeii fror.a L r /» Lr u li heard ivi
C3t. :a;;e. 2 i.als run ovr to pojl .it.i j-^r
\,kicl.'. t.'i^-'y fill ^ c,o UT) neetirif- the 2 licrdraion,
they 11 "_o off R.
Per-:"ita entered frof; t.io cecono ontr-.-'nce, ct ,;;o-l:fo ar.'.f2
crossed to t.io bvck ri lit, u i-sta.^e of Plorisel, .'i'l-i;: iron
hin. No L t; .^e-diroctions precede tlic fir t wor-' ; c of tao cccne
("These your u; iu:_;u. 1 v/eods...") but it seems likely that rlie
let Iiini ::.iov/ of ac.r .)ro,^cnce in ,oono .-lajrful .-jtaiirier, ^^rli: -;s
ui-otinc her II.UKS over >i:. eyes. The ^ .iris obli i ly I i't
tue p: ir alone, seated ct. r;c-l