Wat Tyler

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Excerpt from Wat Tyler: A Play in Three Acts A cloth, painted broadly with the figure of a labourer bending over a plough - a figure huge, unlovely, humorous, from century to century cutting the furrow by which we eat bread - serves as a curtain for the introduction of each act and for the division of scenes. The play is designed for rapid movement and no elaboration of scenery. Cloths readily raised and lowered, painted with a rude indication of the supposed scene, and light properties easily placed upon the stage and as easily removed, are presumed. Scene I. The ploughman cloth hides the stage for a few moments. A strain of Folk song by unseen singers rises, falls and dies away. The cloth is lifted, disclosing the full depth of the stage. The scene is centred upon a weathered, wooden cross raised upon steps. Near the lowest step, a little to spectator's left, stand the village stocks. Further to the left and down stage is a well, enclosed by a low wall. On the right a hanging sign, painted in brilliant colours and protruding from an unseen building marks the presence of an inn. A rough table, benches and stools under the sign complete the idea. The rest of the scene is space and open air, suggesting a broad, level valley: the middle distance cut off by a low wall, with indication of an orchard beyond. The crowing of a cock heralds the rising sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.