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The Dramatic Poet .
An Old Critic .
His Niece .
The Leading Lady (retired).
The Ex-Manager of the Her Son .
Court Theater .
A Maid-servant .
A domestic interior in the environs of one of the Northern capitals. A bookcase full of pompous old volumes. A desk crammed with dusty and disordered papers. A floor-rug littered with journals from which excerpts have been made by hasty tearing or clipping. Present: the Maid-servant , who has an idle duster in one hand and a packet of manuscript in the other.
( considering the packet of manuscript ).
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[The street-door opens suddenly. Enter, briskly, the Poet's Niece , returned from a walk. She advances directly toward the Maid-servant
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( snatching a letter from the corner of the Poet's desk ).
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( taking the manuscript ).
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( reading the letter ).
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[Enter the Dramatic Poet — a small, thin, sour and discontented man. He falls straightway upon the morning's mail, regardless of his Niece , who hovers in the background with her attention divided between her own letter and Lisbeth's manuscript.]
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( whose attention is drawn by his signs of surprise and dismay ).
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( to Lisbeth ).
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Lisbeth quickly brings the disordered room to rights, — desk, bookcase, rug. A knock at the street-door. Enter the Leading Lady and her Son — both dressed in black.]
( with a deference that approaches solemnity ).
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Lisbeth passes out. The new-comers take chairs and look about the room with a mournful interest.]
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[Another knock at the street-door. Two elderly men, also in black, are admitted by Lisbeth . Inasmuch as they advance direct toward the Leading Lady, Lisbeth yields them to her and withdraws. But they speak no word; they shake her hand and then dejectedly seat themselves close to each other on the opposite side of the room. — A long pause.]
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[The door opens. They lapse into a decorous silence. Elsa enters. Waldemar hastens across to her and takes her hand.]
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[They seat themselves side by side; all five preserve the deepest silence. The Poet enters, deep in Lisbeth's manuscript.]
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[He starts suddenly at sight of a roomful of strangers. The three elder ones rise and advance toward him with faces full of deep commiseration.]
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[The Poet , coming to himself and to the situation, bows with an air of shocked solemnity.]
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[The Poet looks from one to another out of the midst of a maze of conflicting emotions.]
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[The Poet bows gravely and turns away his face.]
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( taking up the part of the Roman father ).
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( proceeding in the person of the Roman lover, while Waldemar and Elsa look on and listen with a fascinated interest ).
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[He opens the book with quick decision and places it in the Ex-Manager's hand; the three parts are then carried on to the satisfaction of the Critic , the eager interest of Waldemar and Elsa , and the intense delight of Lisbeth, who (poised in the doorway) finds herself fully in her element at last.]
( after many cues have been taken and many sounding lines recited ).
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( as the Poet hesitates ).
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( holding Gertrude Kronborg's hand ).
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