No Name- Play by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Wilkie Collins

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788770941

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.

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The Complete Works of

WILKIE COLLINS

VOLUME 34 OF 47

No Name- Play

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 1

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‘No Name- Play’

Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition (in 47 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition

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WILKIE COLLINS

IN 47 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Antonina

2, Basil

3, Hide and Seek

4, A Rogue’s Life

5, The Dead Secret

6, The Woman in White

7, No Name

8, Armadale

9, The Moonstone

10, Man and Wife

11, Poor Miss Finch

12, The New Magdalen

13, The Law and the Lady

14, The Two Destinies

15, The Haunted Hotel

16, The Fallen Leaves

17, Jezebel’s Daughter

18, The Black Robe

19, Heart and Science

20, I Say No

21, The Evil Genius

22, The Guilty River

23, The Legacy of Cain

24, Blind Love

The Short Story Collections

25, After Dark

26, The Queen of Hearts

27, Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories in Outline

28, The Frozen Deep and Other Stories

29, Little Novels

30, Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Plays

31, The Frozen Deep

32, No Thoroughfare

33, Black and White

34, No Name- Play

35, The Woman in White- Play

36, The New Magdalen- Play

37, Miss Gwilt

38, The Moonstone- Play

The Non-Fiction

39, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins Esq, Ra

40, Rambles Beyond Railways

41, My Miscellanies

42, Miscellaneous Essays and Articles

The Biographies

43, Wilkie Collins’ Charms by Olive Logan

44, Men of Mark: W. Wilkie Collins by Edmund Yates

45, Wilkie Collins by William Teignmouth Shore

46, Extracts from ‘Memories of Half a Century’ by Rudolph Chambers Lehmann

47, Extracts from ‘Life of Charles Dickens’ by John Forster

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No Name- Play

A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS.

CONTENTS

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

ADMIRAL BARTRAM.

GEORGE BARTRAM.

NOEL VANSTONE.

CAPTAIN WRAGGE.

MR. PENDRIL.

Visitors, Servants, School-children, &c. &c.

Scene: The First Act in Somersetshire. The Second Act in York and its neighbourhood. The Third Act at Aldborough. The Fourth Act in Yorkshire.

PERIOD: The Present Time.

ACT I.

(DATE MARCH 1, 1870.)

SCENE. — The drawing-room of the late MR. VANSTONE’S house at Combe Raven, in Somersetshire. Entrances at the side, right and left. At the back, in the centre, an entrance to another room, closed by rich curtains which draw aside, and part in the middle. MR. PENDRIL, GEORGE BARTRAM, and MISS GARTH, are discovered seated at a table; MISS GARTH being dressed in deep mourning. MR. PENDRIL sits in the centre, fronting the audience, with his papers before him. GEORGE and MISS GARTH are at opposite sides of the table.

Miss G. (pointing to MR. PENDRIL’S papers). Have you written to Michael Vanstone, Mr. Pendril?

Mr. P. Yes. (He takes up a paper.) Here is a copy of my letter.

Miss G. Have you received Michael Vanstone’s answer?

Mr. P. (taking up another paper). By this morning’s post. Here is the answer.

Geo. Don’t keep us in suspense! Good news or bad?

Mr. P. Bad — as bad can be.

Miss G. Michael Vanstone keeps the money?

Mr. P. He keeps the money.

Miss G. Poor Norah!

Geo. Poor Magdalen!

(A pause. MISS GARTH and GEORGE look at each other in silent distress.)

Mr. P. (addressing them alternately). George Bartram, Miss Garth, we must look the worst in the face boldly. The law leaves the orphan daughters of Andrew Vanstone at their uncle Michael’s mercy. And their uncle Michael’s decision has thrown them helpless and homeless on the world.

Geo. Not helpless, while I can work for them.

Miss G. Not homeless, while I am a living woman! One word, Mr. Pendril. Would it melt this man’s hard heart if you did more than write to him? Suppose you pleaded with him for his brother’s children at a personal interview?

Mr. P. That is the very question which I was about to submit to you. George, I want your advice as well as Miss Garth’s. You were poor Andrew Vanstone’s trusted friend ——

Miss G. Friend! He might have been more than a friend. He might have been Andrew Vanstone’s son-in-law but for Magdalen’s infatuated attachment to Francis Clare.

Geo. (gently). Don’t blame Magdalen, Miss Garth. I am almost old enough to be her father. (Speaking modestly, without the slightest bitterness.) Francis Clare has every advantage over me. He is young, he is handsome ——

Miss G. He is idle, he is selfish. He has neither head nor heart. Magdalen will live to rue the day when she gave her love to a man who is utterly unworthy of her.

Geo. Let us drop the subject. (To MR. PENDRIL) You said just now you wished to take my advice.

Mr. P. Your advice — as Andrew Vanstone’s friend. And Miss Garth’s advice as the governess who has brought up his girls from childhood. I wish to read to both of you my letter to Michael Vanstone, and the answer which he has sent to me in return. If you advise me after that to try the effect of a personal interview with him, I will start to-day by the first train.

Miss G. (rising). Shall I fetch Magdalen?

Mr. P. Where is she?

Miss G. (pointing to the curtains at the back). With her sister in that room.

Mr. P. I thought Norah’s sitting-room was up-stairs?

Miss G. We have made a little change in the last two days. The windows of the room in there open on the garden. When Norah is weary of her books and her music, it is a relief to her — in her helpless condition, poor soul — to look out at the trees and the flowers.

Mr. P. Can they hear us?

Miss G. Impossible, the curtains are doubled. Why do you ask?

Mr. P. Norah must not hear us. And Magdalen must not come in here.

Geo. Why not? Sooner or later she and her sister must know the truth.

Mr. P. Magdalen must not be present. Remember the stain that rests on the memory of her parents! My letter to Michael Vanstone discloses the miserable secret of his brother’s life. Can I read it — can I read the vile reply that has been sent to me — in Magdalen’s presence? I am sure you agree with me, it is not to be done.

(MISS GARTH and GEORGE assent by a gesture. At the same moment, the curtains are parted in the middle, and a maid-servant appears in the room.)

The Servant (to MISS GARTH): Miss Magdalen’s love, ma’am. She has been told that Mr. Pendril is here. Is