The Coast of Utopia: Salvage | Summary
Act I
The play opens in London in February of 1853 at the Herzen house in Hampstead. Herzen is napping and dreaming while Sasha, Maria, and Tata enter, flying a kite and pushing the two-year old Olga in her pram. In Herzen’s dream several émigrés and political refugees from Germany, France, Poland, Italy, and Hungary are talking on Parliament Hill. Kinkel and his wife Joanna are there with their friend Malwida von Meysenburg. Arnold Ruge, Karl Marx, Ernest Jones, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Count Worcell, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Lajos Kossuth join them....
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