either! O, I am the most miserable fellow! But I'll not bear her presuming to keep her temper: no! she may break my heart, but she sha'n't keep her temper. STUDY HINTS Study the spelling and meaning of these words: [Exit.] This humorous scene between a doting old man and his spoiled young wife must be read aloud to be enjoyed fully. Note how Lady Teazle alternately quarrels with her husband and wheedles him. Each one shows his character unconsciously by what he says. One of the means by which we learn to understand the characters of people around us is by listening to what they say. SUGGESTIONS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN ENGLISH Write a conversation that would spring naturally from one of the following situations. For arrangement, turn to page 106. Where the speaker would grow very much interested or excited, indicate in parenthesis just what he should do, and the tone he should employ. A brother wants to take his sister to a baseball game. She prefers to read. You wish to attend one school, your chum another. Two boys discuss a friend who refuses to play on the football team. Mary urges a friend to subscribe for the school paper. A girl graduate desires to "put up" her hair on the night of the commencement. Her mother objects. Two girls plan a picnic. SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS The Sleeping Car. W. D. Howells. The Elevator. W. D. Howells. The Little Men Play. E. L. Gould. The Little Women Play. Dramatic Reader, Book V. Augusta Stevenson. Patriotic Plays and Pageants. Constance Mackay. For the teacher to read to the class: Selections from The Piper, Josephine P. Peabody; Ulysses, Stephen Phillips; The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith. THE STORM AT SEA1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in the little town of Stratford-on-Avon, England. Little is known of his life, but people of every civilized nation on the globe read his plays and marvel at his genius. No more beautiful tribute has been paid him than that which some unknown admirer wrote with a pencil upon the mantelpiece in the room where Shakespeare was born. It is: See also: "In this poor place his spirit first drew breath Who saved the English tongue from fear of death." Halleck's New English Literature, pp. 174-198, 218. Lee's A Life of William Shakespeare. Raleigh's Shakespeare. MacCracken, Pierce, and Durham's An Introduction to Shakespeare. Dowden's Shakespeare, His Mind and Art. Brandes's William Shakespeare. CAST OF CHARACTERS Alonso, King of Naples. Sebastian, his brother. Prospero, the right Duke of Milan. Antonio, his brother. Gonzalo, an old counselor of Naples. Miranda, Prospero's daughter. Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples. 1 From The Tempest. ACT I. SCENE 1: On a Ship at Sea. A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain. Master. Boatswain ! Boatswain. Here, master: what cheer? Master. Good, speak to the mariners; fall to't yarely,1 or we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir! Enter Mariners. [Exit. Boatswain. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the master's whistle. Blow till thou burst thy wind 2 if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others. Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boatswain. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, boatswain? Boatswain. Do you not hear him? You mar our labor; keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient. Boatswain. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers3 for the name of king? To cabin: silence: trouble us not. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boatswain. None that I more love than myself. You are a counselor; if you can command these elements to silence, 1 Briskly. In Shakespeare's time the wind was often represented in pictures by the figure of a man blowing with his cheeks puffed. 3 Waves. and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. - Cheerly, good hearts. Out of our way, I say. [Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. Enter Mariners, wet. Mariners. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! Boatswain. What, must our mouths be cold? [Exeunt. Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us assist them, For our case is as theirs. Seb. I'm out of patience. Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. This wide-chapped rascal; - Would thou mightst lie drowning The washing of ten tides! Gon. He'll be hanged yet, Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut1 him. [A confused noise within. - "Mercy on us! we split, we split!" -"Farewell, my wife and children!" "Farewell, brother!" "We split, we split, we split!"] Ant. Let's all sink with the king. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an 1 To swallow up. |