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Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946

"The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I"

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DR. BOXER, _a vigorous man of thirty-six. Physician. Of Jewish birth._
VON WEHRHAHN, _Justice._
EDE, _Journeyman at LANGHEINRICH'S._
GLASENAPP, _Clerk in the Justice's Court._
SCHULZE, _Constable._
MRS. SCHULZE, _his aunt._
TSCHACHE, _Constable._
A FIREMAN.
A BOY.
JANITOR OF THE COURT.
VILLAGE PEOPLE.
Scene: Anywhere in the neighbourhood of Berlin.


THE FIRST ACT

_The work shop of the shoemaker FIELITZ. A low room with blue tinted
walls. A window to the right. In each of the other walls a door.
Under the window at the right a small platform. Upon it a cobbler's
bench and a small table. On the latter a stand upholding three
spheres of glass filled with water. Near them stands an unlit
coal-oil lamp. In the corner, left, a brown tile oven surrounded by a
bench and kitchen utensils of various kinds._
_SHOEMAKER FIELITZ is still crouching over his work. On the platform
and around it old shoes and boots of every size are heaped up.
FIELITZ is hammering a piece of leather into flexibility._
_MRS. FIELITZ (formerly MRS. WOLFF) is thoughtfully turning over in
her hands a little wooden box and a stearin candle.


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