The Eldest Son
READING AGE 16+
(1912)
Persons of The Play:
SIR WILLIAM CHESHIRE, a baronet
LADY CHESHIRE, his wife
BILL, their eldest son
HAROLD, their second son
RONALD KEITH(in the Lancers), their son-in-law
CHRISTINE (his wife), their eldest daughter
DOT, their second daughter
JOAN, their third daughter
MABEL LANFARNE, their guest
THE REVEREND JOHN LATTER, engaged to Joan
OLD STUDDENHAM, the head-keeper
FREDA STUDDENHAM, the lady's-maid
YOUNG DUNNING, the under-keeper
ROSE TAYLOR, a village girl
JACKSON, the butler
CHARLES, a footman
Setting: Time:
The present. The action passes on December 7 and 8 at the Cheshires' country house, in one of the shires.
ACT I: SCENE I: The hall; before dinner. SCENE II: The hall; after dinner.
ACT II: Lady Cheshire's morning room; after breakfast.
ACT III: The smoking-room; tea-time.
A night elapses between Acts I. and II.
Unfold
It is five o'clock of the same day. The scene is the smoking-room, with walls of Leander red, covered by old steeplechase and hunting prints. Armchairs encircle a high ferulered hearth, in which a fire is burning. The curtains are not yet drawn across mullioned windows, but electric light is burning. There are two doors, leading, the one to the……
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