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    Beauty and the Beast - A Fairy Extravaganza in Two Acts - With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Relative Positions, Etc.
    Beauty and the Beast - A Fairy Extravaganza in Two Acts - With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Relative Positions, Etc.
    Beauty and the Beast - A Fairy Extravaganza in Two Acts - With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Relative Positions, Etc.
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    Beauty and the Beast - A Fairy Extravaganza in Two Acts - With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Relative Positions, Etc.

    By J. R. Planché

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    "Beauty and the Beast" is an 1841 play in two acts by J. R. Planche. Based on the 1740 fairy tale by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, this fantastic abridged retelling is perfect for modern stage productions and is not to be missed by fans and lovers of the timeless story. James Robinson Planché (1796 - 1880) was a British antiquary, dramatist, and officer of arms. Over a sixty-year period he produced, collaborated on, or adapted 176 plays over a variety of genres farce, extravaganza, comedy, burletta, opera, and melodrama. Other notable works by this author include: "An Old Fairy Tale - The Sleeping Beauty - Illustrated by Brothers Dalziel" (1865), "Four and Twenty Fairy Tales" (1858), and "Madame de Villeneuve's Original Beauty and the Beast" (1858). Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. The collection showcases classic fairy tales, children's stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPook Press
    Release dateFeb 22, 2018
    ISBN9781528782913
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      Beauty and the Beast - A Fairy Extravaganza in Two Acts - With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Relative Positions, Etc. - J. R. Planché

      BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

      ACT I.

      SCENE I.—A Bower of Roses, not by Bendemeer’s Stream.

      Enter a Troop of Zephyrs, to the "Gavotte de Vestris."

      Zephyr.How’s this! what, still asleep, my Rosy Posies?

      Come ope your eyes and blow your little noses.

      Not a leaf stirring yet—why, gracious powers,

      Are you aware the time of day, my flowers?

      Have you forgotten that your Queen proposes

      This day to ope the Parliament of Roses?

      CHORUS OF ROSES.—Ditto of Bridesmaids.—"Der Frieschutz."

      Sweet Zephyr, don’t make such a breeze,

      We’re rather late this morning,

      But don’t be angry, if you please,

      We shan’t take long adorning;

      Sleep, you know, will sometimes thus enthrall us,

      You should earlier call us.

      [Music.—The Queen of Roses appears.

      Zephyr.Behold your Sovereign!Silence, all and each,

      To hear Her Majesty’s most flow’ry speech.

      Queen.My Buds and Blossoms, I rejoice to say,

      That I continue to receive each day

      Assurances from all the foreign flowers

      Of their good will towards these happy bowers—

      I have concluded, on the best foundations,

      A treaty with the king of the Carnations,

      And trust ere long to lay the leaves before you.

      I’m sorry now to be obliged to bore you

      On an old subject, but, for your digestion

      At Easter, we must have an Easter Question—

      And, on my faithful Roses I depend

      To bring the matter to a happy end.

      The facts are these: a youth of royal race,

      Of noble mind and matchless form and face,

      Has been transformed by a malicious fairy,

      Into an ugly monster, huge and hairy;

      And must remain a downright beast outside,

      ’Till some fair maid consents to be his

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