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10 Minute Play, Drama / 1w, 2m
Thornton Wilder
This short play, set in a goldsmith's shop in Renaissance Paris, is part of Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons .
“A goldsmith’s shop in Renaissance Paris... The tops of the shop windows are just above the level of the street, and through them we see the procession of shoes, any one of them a novel or a play or a poem...”
Charles of Benicet, the goldsmith, is also a composer. Whether he is a better composer than goldsmith is not clear. It is to be hoped, however, that Tullio, his apprentice, will prove to be a better apprentice than messenger. Tullio mixes up deliveries of engagement rings, and changes lives in the process.
Of Note: The script for Wilder’s The Christmas Interludes II calls for a performance of the “sweet musick” Benicet composed for “those who play the viol by the Church of Notre Dame de Ytelle.” Jehanne is pronounced “Jean”.
This short play is included in the collection Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons.
This play was first published in the Yale Literary Magazine in November 1917, Wilder’s sophomore year. A slightly revised version appeared in Theatre Guild Magazine in 1928. This marked the first appearance of a Wilder play in a major magazine devoted to drama.
CHARLES
TULLIO
LADY JEHANNE
A goldsmith's shop in Renaissance Paris.
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