Masque of the Red Death.pdf - Alex Broun

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ACTOR 2:
ACTOR 3:
ACTOR 4:
PROSPERO:
ACTOR 2:
brought furnaces
and hammers
and welded the bolts.
“It is resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress
to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from
within.”
With such precautions
ACTOR 3: the courtiers –
ACTOR 4:
ACTOR5:
ACTOR 2:
PROSPERO:
ACTOR 2:
ACTOR 3:
ACTOR 4:
ACTOR 5:
ACTOR 2:
ACTOR 3:
might bid defiance
to contagion.
The abbey was amply provisioned.
Buffoons,
“The external world can take care of itself. In the
meantime it is folly to grieve, or to think. I have provided
all the appliances of pleasure.”
improvisatori,
ballet-dancers,
musicians,
Beauty,
wine.
PROSPERO: All these and security were within. Without was the –
ACTORS 2-5:
Red Death.
BEAT.
ACTOR 2:
ACTOR 3:
ACTOR 4:
ACTOR 5:
It was toward the close of the
sixth month of this seclusion,
while the pestilence raged
most furiously