East Lynne

East Lynne

    Alternative Title: The Marriage Bells, or The Cottage on the Cliff

    Author: Mrs Henry Wood (adapted by Clifton W. Tayleure)

    First Performance: 1862, New York; 1864, London

    Published: As novel 1861; many subsequent adaptations from 1862

    Genre: Melodrama in 5 acts

    Setting: Archibald Carlyle's home and environs, England, and Isabel's room in France, mid-19th c.

    Cast: 8m, 5f

Lady Isabel marries Archibald Carlyle, a country solicitor, more from liking and respect than from love, and comes to live in East Lynne. Several years pass. Isabel, now a mother, is fiercely jealous of her husband's friendship with the pretty Barbara Hare, a jealousy intensified by the gossip of her servants and by the treacherous Sir Francis Levison, who has designs on Isabel. She discovers Archibald...

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