EDMOND ROSTAND

TRANSLATED BY

LOUIS N. PARKER

Copyright 1900
By Robert Howard Russell

[The First Act]
[The Second Act]
[The Third Act]
[The Fourth Act]
[The Fifth Act]
[The Sixth Act]

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
The cast as presented by Maude
Adams at the Knickerbocker
Theatre, New York, October, 1900

The Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I. andthe Archduchess Maria Louisa of AustriaMaude Adams
Flambeau, a veteranJ. H. Gilmour
Prince Metternich, Chancellor of AustriaEdwin Arden
Count ProkeschPercy Lyndall
Baron Friedrich von GentzEugene Jepson
The Attaché of the French Embassy at the Austrian CourtOswald York
The Tailor, a conspiratorWilliam Lewers
Count Maurice DietrichsteinEdward Lester
Baron von ObenausR. Peyton Carter
The Emperor Francis of AustriaJos. Francœur
Marshal Marmont, Duke of RagusaJ. H. Benrimo
Count Sedlinzky, Prefect of the Austrian PoliceWilliam Crosby
The Marquis of Bombelles, betrothed to Maria LouisaClayton Legge
Tiburtius de LogetWilliam Irving
Lord Cowley, English Ambassador at the Austrian CourtRienzi de Cordova
Count SandorEdward Jacobs
Doctor MalfattiH. D. James
General HartmannHerbert Carr
Captain ForestiJohn S. Robertson
An Austrian SergeantLloyd Carleton
A Country DoctorFrederick Spencer
His SonByron Ongley
ThalbergB. B. Belcher
MontenegroMorton H. Weldon
The ChamberlainCharles Martin
An Officer of the Noble Guard, the Emperor of Austria's BodyguardHenry P. Davis
The Marquis of Otranto, son of FoucheCharles Henderson
Goubeaux Don C. Merrifield
Pionnet{Bonapartist}Henry Clarke
Morchain{conspirators}Thomas H. Elwood
Guibert George Klein
Borowski Frank Goodman
First Police OfficerRalph Yoerg
First Archduke, a childWalter Butterworth
Second Archduke, a childJohn Leeman
Maria Louisa, second wife of Napoleon I., widow of Count NeippergIda Waterman
The Archduchess Sophia of AustriaSarah Converse
Theresa de Loget, sister of Tiburtius de LogetEllie Collmer
The Countess Napoleone Camerata, daughter of Napoleon's sister, Elisa BaciocchiSarah Perry
Fanny ElsslerMargaret Gordon
Scarampi, Mistress of the RobesFrancis Comstock
Mina, a maid-of-honorEdith Scott
An Archduchess, a childBeatrice Morrison

Princes, Princesses, Archdukes, Archduchesses, Maids-of-Honor, Officers, Noble Guard, Masks (Male and Female), Crotian Peasants, Hungarian Peasant, Austrian Soldiers, Police Officers.

The period covered by the play is from 1830 to 1832.

THE DUKE OF REICHSTADT
FROM THE PAINTING BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE

THE FIRST ACT