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Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946

"The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I"

_] Gran'father!
MOTHER HILSE
Come now, father, can't you say something? You're frightenin' me.

THE END


THE BEAVER COAT
A THIEVES' COMEDY


LIST OF CHARACTERS

VON WEHRHAHN, _Justice._
KRUEGER, _Capitalist in a small way._
DR. FLEISCHER.
PHILIP, _his son._
MOTES.
MRS. MOTES.
MRS. WOLFF, _Washerwoman._
JULIUS WOLFF, _her husband._
LEONTINE, ADELAIDE, _her daughters._
WULKOW, _Lighterman._
GLASENAPP, _Clerk in the Justice's court._
MITTELDORF, _Constable._
Scene of the action: anywhere in the neighbourhood of Berlin.


THE FIRST ACT

_A small, blue-tinted kitchen with low ceiling; a window at the left;
at the right a door of rough boards leading out into the open; in the
rear mall an empty casing from which the door has been lifted.--In
the left corner a flat oven, above which hang kitchen utensils in a
wooden frame; in the right corner oars and other boating implements.
Rough, stubby pieces of hewn wood lie in a heap under the window. An
old kitchen bench, several stools, etc.--Through the empty casing in
the rear a second room is visible. In it stands a high, neatly, made
bed; above it hang cheap photographs in still cheaper frames, small
chromolithographs, etc.


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