Caste
Caste Author: T. W. Robertson
First Performance: 1867, London
Published: 1868
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Eccles's house and D'Alroy's lodgings, London, 1860s
Cast: 5m, 3f
Despite the warnings of his friend Hawtree about the importance of ‘caste’, the Honourable George D'Alroy woos and weds the beautiful dancer Esther Eccles, whose father is a drunkard. Her sister Polly becomes engaged to the honest plumber Sam Gerridge. George is posted with his regiment to India. When news comes of his death on active service, Esther takes up her dancing again in order to support her young son. She refuses to sell their child to her mother-in-law, the overbearing Marquise de St Maur, knowing that with the help of Polly and Sam, she will survive. George reappears, having escaped his captors, is delighted by Esther's...
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