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    Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
    Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
    Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
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    Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

    Written by Charles Macklin

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with echoes of Molière, moving from scene to scene with little effort at logical consistency or structure but treating each scene autonomously for its own comic value.

    The rather long Prologue to A WILL AND NO WILL (11 pages of manuscript) makes fun of the convention of the eighteenth century prologues by the familiar dodge of having actors chatting as though they were in the Pit waiting for the actors in the preceding main play to dress for the afterpiece. - Summary from Introduction

    Cast list:
    Prolog
    Rattle: Beth Thomas
    Smart: Larry Wilson
    Dullman: Newgatenovelist
    Irishman: alanmapstone
    Snarlewit: TriciaG
    Acts 1 & 2
    SIR ISAAC SKINFLINT: Larry Wilson
    BELLAIR and SERVANT: ToddHW
    DOCTOR LEATHERHEAD: Beth Thomas
    COUNCELLOUR CORMORANT: alanmapstone
    MR. LITTLEWIT: Zames Curran
    MONSIEUR DU MAIGRE: Carol Eades King
    MR. DEATH: alanmapstone
    SHARK: Kristin Gjerløw
    LADY LOVEWEALTH: Availle
    HARRIET: Elizabeth Klett
    LUCY: TriciaG

    Stage Directions By: MaryAnn

    Edited and Coordinated By: ToddHW
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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