Lafitte

About this eBook

Author

Ayres, Lucie Levéque

Title

Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts

Original Publication

United States: None listed,1899.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Laffite, Jean -- Drama

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69010

Release Date

September 18, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LAFITTE
2. 2.CHARACTERS
3. 3.PLACE.
4. 4.TIME.
5. 5.PROLOGUE.
6. 6.PROLOGUE. — SCENE. A beautiful garden; rustic tables and chairs; to the right a castle, massive, elegant, imposing. Don Manuel D’Acosta, standing on the veranda, absorbed in thought. Enter Marquis D’Acosta.
7. 7.ACT I.
8. 8.ACT I. — SCENE I. Six years later. L’Hotel des Exiles; New Orleans. A large, dark-paneled, low-ceilinged room. Enter Leon Duval and Pedro. — SCENE II. Saloon of the American vessel. Laughter at rise of curtain. Mariana, Mother Augustus, the nuns, Father Poularde, lady and gentlemen passengers, discovered.
9. 9.ACT II.
10. 10.ACT II. — Barataria; vicinity of Lafitte’s home, the Red House; the Bay of Barataria at back; luxuriant foliage and flowers. Enter Lafitte; he has flowers in his hand and is followed by a dog.
11. 11.ACT III.
12. 12.ACT III. — SCENE I. Governor Claiborne’s mansion. Ball room just off the scene; music; guests in evening dress move about; enter Duval and legislators and politicians of Act I.; exeunt other guests. — SCENE II. L’hotel des Exiles; the mask room. Enter Baptiste.
13. 13.ACT IV.
14. 14.ACT IV. — Morning of January 8th, 1815. Early dawn; an approach to New Orleans, swamp land; cypress trees, draped in Spanish moss; Batteries 3 and 4—the pirates of Barataria—stationed about in the distance; enter Beluche.

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