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    Fashion

    By Anna Cora Mowatt

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    The narrative of Fashion centers around Mr. Tiffany's difficulties, a dry goods merchant who nearly went bankrupt owing to his wife's extravagant spending in order to be regarded as trendy. Mrs. Tiffany used to be a milliner who sold colorful caps and hats at a little shop on Canal Street. Her constant talking in French attempts to imitate European norms, and overall pretentiousness define her. Fashion is not a drama with a strong narrative. Instead, Mowatt is most renowned for her ability to effectively portray individuals that represent the social scene of mid-nineteenth-century New York. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819-1870) was an American novelist, dramatist, public reader, actor, and preservationist of French ancestry. This is her most famous work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 11, 2021
    ISBN4064066450946
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      Fashion - Anna Cora Mowatt

      Anna Cora Mowatt

      Fashion

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4064066450946

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Dramatis Personae

      Costumes

      Exits and entrances

      Relative positions

      The Play

      PROLOGUE

      ACT I

      Scene I

      ACT II

      Scene I

      Scene II

      ACT III

      Scene I

      Scene II

      ACT IV

      Scene I

      Scene II

      ACT V

      Scene I

      Epilogue

      Disposition of the characters

      Preface

      Table of Contents

      THE Comedy of Fashion was intended as a good-natured satire upon some of the follies incident to a new country, where foreign dross sometimes passes for gold, while native gold is cast aside as dross; where the vanities rather than the virtues of other lands are too often imitated, and where the stamp of fashion gives currency even to the coinage of vice.

      The reception with which the Comedy was favoured proves that the picture represented was not a highly exaggerated one.

      It was first produced at the Park Theatre, New York, in March, 1845.

      The splendid manner in which the play was put upon the stage, and the combined efforts of an extremely talented company, ensured it a long continued success. It was afterwards received with the same indulgence in all the principal cities of the United States, for which the authoress is doubtless indebted to the proverbial gallantry of Americans to a countrywoman.

      A. C. M.

      London, January, 1850.

      Dramatis Personae

      Table of Contents

      Adam Trueman: a farmer from Catteraugus Count Jolimaitre: a fashionable European Importation Colonel Howard: an Officer in the U. S. Army. Mr. Tiffany: a New York merchant. T. Tennyson Twinkle: a modern poet Augustus Fogg: a drawing room appendage Snobson: a rare species of confidential clerk Zeke: a colored servant Mrs. Tiffany: a lady who imagines herself fashionable. Prudence: a maiden lady of a certain age. Millinette: a French lady's maid Gertrude: a governess Seraphina Tiffany: a Belle Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ball Room

      Costumes

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      Adam Trueman.--First Dress: A farmer's rough overcoat, coarse blue trousers, heavy boots, broad-brimmed hat, dark coloured neckerchief, stout walking stick, large bandanna tied loosely around his neck.--Second dress: Dark grey old-fashioned coat, black and yellow waistcoat, trousers as before.--Third dress: Black old-fashioned dress cost, black trousers, white vest, white cravat.Count Jolimaitre.--First dress: Dark frock coat, light blue trousers, patent leather boots, gay coloured vest and scarf, profusion of jewellery, light overcoat.--Second dress: Full evening dress; last scene, travelling cap and cloak.Mr. Tiffany.--First dress: Dark coat, vest, and trousers.--Second dress: Full evening dress.Mr. Twinkle.--First dress: Green frock coat, white vest and trousers, green and white scarf.--Second dress: Full evening dress.Mr. Fogg.--First dress: Entire black suit.--Second dress: Fall evening dress, same colour.Snobson. --First dress: Blue Albert coat with brass buttons, yellow vest, red and black cravat, broad plaid trousers.--Second dress: Evening dress.Col. Howard.--First dress: Blue undress frock coat and cap, white trousers.--Second dress: Full military uniform.Zeke.--Red and blue livery, cocked hat, &c.Mrs. Tiffany.--First dress: Extravagant modern dress.--Second dress: Hat, feathers, and mantle, with the above.-Third dress: Morning dress.-Fourth dress: Rich ball dress.Serafina.--First dress: Rich modern dress, lady's tarpaulin on one side of head.--Second dress: Morning dress.--Third dress: Handsome ball dress, profusion of ornaments and flowers.-Fourth dress: Bonnet and mantle.Gertrude.--First dress: White muslin.--Second dress: Ball dress, very simple.Millinette.--Ladies Maid's dress, very gay.Prudence.--Black satin, very narrow in the skirt, tight sleeves, white muslin apron, neckerchief of the same, folded over bosom, old-fashioned cap, high top and broad frill, and red ribbons.

      Exits and entrances

      Table of Contents

      R. means Right; L., Left; R. 1 E., Right First Entrance; 2 H., Second Entrance; D. F., Door in the Flat.

      Relative positions

      Table of Contents

      R. means Right; L., Left: C., Centre; R. C., Right of Centre: L. C., Left of Centre.

      The reader is supposed to be on the Stage facing the Audience.

      The Play

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Act I

      Act II

      Act III

      Act IV

      Act V

      PROLOGUE

      Table of Contents

      (Enter a Gentleman, reading a Newspaper.)

      "'Fashion, a Comedy.' I'll go; but stay—

      Now I read farther, 'tis a native play!

      Bah! homemade calicoes are well enough,

      But homemade dramas must be stupid stuff.

      Had it the London stamp, 'twould do—but then,

      For plays, we lack the manners and the men!"

      Thus speaks one critic. Here's another's creed:—

      "'Fashion!' What's here? (Reads.) It never can succeed!

      What! from a woman's pen? It takes a man

      To write a comedy—no woman can."

      Well, sir, and what say you, and why that frown?

      His eyes uprolled, he lays the paper down:—

      Here! take, he says, "the unclean thing away!

      'This tainted with the notice of a play!"

      But, sir!—but, gentlemen!—you, sir, who think

      No comedy can flow from native ink,&mdash

      Are we such perfect monsters, or such dull,

      That Wit no traits for ridicule can cull?

      Have we no follies here to be redressed?

      No vices gibbeted? no crimes confessed?

      But then a female hand can't lay the lash on!

      How know you that, sir, when the theme is Fashion?

      And now, come forth, thou man of sanctity!

      How shall I venture a reply to thee?

      The Stage—what is it, though beneath thy ban,

      But a daguerreotype of life and man?

      Arraign poor human nature, if you will,

      But let the Drama have her mission still;

      Let her, with honest purpose, still reflect

      The faults which keeneyed Satire may detect.

      For there be men who fear not an hereafter,

      Yet tremble at the hell of public laughter!

      Friends, from these scoffers we appeal to you!

      Condemn the false, but O, applaud the true.

      Grant that some wit may grow on native soil

      And art's fair fabric rise from woman's toil.

      While we exhibit but to reprehend

      The social voices, 'tis for you to mend!

      ACT I

      Table of Contents

      Scene I

      Table of Contents

      {A splendid Drawing Room in the House of Mrs. Tiffany. Open folding door C. F., discovering a Conservatory. On either side glass windows down to the ground. Doors on R. and L. U. E. Mirror, couches, ottomans, a table with albums, &c., beside it an arm chair. Millinette R. dusting furniture, &c., Zeke L. in a dashing livery, scarlet coat,

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