The Glass of Water

Glass of Water, The (Le Verre d'eau, ou Les Effets et les causes)

    Alternative Title: Causes and Effects

    Author: Eugène Scribe

    First Performance: 1840, Paris

    Published: 1840

    First English Translation: 1850

    Genre: Hist. drama in 5 acts; French prose

    Setting: St James's Palace, London, 1710

    Cast: 4m, 3f

Although the Duke of Marlborough has won several impressive victories in the War of the Spanish Succession, Viscount Bolingbroke, a Tory, is attempting to end hostilities in Europe. He is bitterly opposed by the Duchess of Marlborough, the Whig Sarah Churchill, a childhood friend and now adviser of Queen Anne. The Duchess wants the war to continue so that her husband can reap yet more glory. All Bolingbroke's attempts to win the Queen to his point of view are...

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