The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy

by Samuel Eberly Gross

EN·~2 hours·10 chapters

Chapters

10 total

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0:18

The Merchant Prince of Cornville

0:20

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

1:19

The Merchant Prince of Cornville. A Comedy. - THE CHARACTERS.

0:34

SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND INCIDENTS.

0:54

The Merchant Prince of Cornville. A COMEDY. - Act the First. - Scene I.—An orchard by the sea. Sunrise. Birds singing.

30:45

Act the Second. - Scene I.—On the seashore. Afternoon.

41:17

Act the Third. - Scene I.—A masquerade. Musicians playing. Maskers moving about.

30:20

Act the Fourth.

19:39

Act the Fifth. - Scene I.—A room at the Dolphin Inn. Evening.

26:59

Description

The play on which Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" was said to be based. The charge of plagiarism was upheld by a United States court.

Details

Language

Duration

~2 hours (146K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-01-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Man-woman relationships -- Drama Women -- Drama

About the author

Samuel Eberly Gross

1843–1913

A bold Chicago real-estate promoter, lawyer, and writer, he became closely identified with the city’s explosive growth in the late nineteenth century. His life mixes frontier ambition, big urban speculation, and a surprising sideline in fiction and drama.

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