The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Preston Jones
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: 1962
- Setting: Bradleyville, Texas, a fictional prairie town
- Principal Characters: Ramsey-Eyes Blankenship, Rufe Phelps, Olin Potts, Red Grover, L. D. Alexander, Colonel J. C. Kinkaid, Skip Hampton, Lonnie Roy McNeil, Milo Crawford
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Tradition, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, West, U.S., Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Small-town life, Texas
- Locales: Bradleyville, TX
The Play
The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia opens in the meeting room of the Knights of the White Magnolia in the Cattleman’s Hotel. Ramsey-Eyes sweeps in preparation for the evening’s meeting, giving the audience time to take in the play’s single setting. The room is run-down, with stained walls and shabby furnishings. At one end is a podium decorated with a grimy painting of a white magnolia. Behind it, flanked by Confederate and Texas flags, hangs a cross ornamented with light bulbs. Opposite is the doorway, with a coatrack and tattered...
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