Performing Arts and the Gothic | James Boaden (Play Date 1794)
JAMES BOADEN (PLAY DATE 1794)
SOURCE: Boaden, James. "Act 1." In Fontainville Forest, a Play, in Five acts, (Founded on The Romance of the Forest,) as Performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden, pp. 1-10. London: Hookham and Carpenter, 1794.
The following excerpt comprises the first act of Boaden's popular dramatization of Ann Radcliffe's 1791 novel The Romance of the Forest.
Scene.—A Gothic Hall of an Abbey, the whole much dilapidated.
ENTER MADAME LAMOTTE, FOLLOWED BY PETER.
MADAME.
Seek not to fill me with these terrors, Peter:
Here are no signs of any late inhabitants,The fugitive fears nothing but discovery.
While we are safe from all pursuit, no vain
Or superstitious fancies shall disturb me.PETER.
This is a horrid place, I scarce...
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