The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

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Title: The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
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THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH
by
ARTHUR WING PINERO
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
AGNES LUCAS CLEEVE SYBIL CLEEVE SIR SANDFORD CLEEVE DUKE OF ST. OLPHERTS GERTRUDE
THORPE REV. AMOS WINTERFIELD SIR GEORGE BRODRICK DR. KIRKE FORTUNE ANTONIO POPPI
NELLA HEPHZIBAH
The Scene is laid in Venice—first at the Palazzo Arconati, a lodging house on the Grand Canal; afterwards in an
apartment in the Campo S. Bartolomeo.
It is Easter-tide, a week passing between the events of the First and
Second Acts.THE FIRST ACT
The Scene is a room in the Palazzo Arconati, on the Grand Canal, Venice. The room itself is beautiful in its decayed
grandeur, but the furnishings and hangings are either tawdry and meretricious or avowedly modern. The three windows at
the back open on to a narrow covered balcony, or loggia, and through them can be seen the west side of the canal.
Between ...