The Tables Turned; or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude

By William Morris

William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Feb 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781508097198

William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. Morris also found success as a writer with such works as The Earthly Paradise (1870), News from Nowhere (1890), and The Well at the World’s End (1896). A cofounder of the Socialist League, he was a committed revolutionary socialist who played a major part in the growing acceptance of Marxism and anarchism in English society.

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THE TABLES TURNED; OR, NUPKINS AWAKENED. A SOCIALIST INTERLUDE

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William Morris

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE TABLES TURNED; or, Nupkins Awakened

ORIGINAL CAST.

PART I.

PART II.

THE COMMONWEAL,

The Tables Turned; or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude

By

William Morris

The Tables Turned; or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude

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THE TABLES TURNED; OR, NUPKINS AWAKENED

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AS FOR THE FIRST TIME played at the Hall of the Socialist League on Saturday October 15, 1887

LONDON:

OFFICE OF THE COMMONWEAL

13 FARRINGDON ROAD, E.C.

1887

All Rights Reserved.

ORIGINAL CAST.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ—PART I.

Mr. La-di-da (found guilty of swindling) . . . H. Bartlett.

Mr. Justice Nupkins . . . W. Blundell.

Mr. Hungary, Q.C. (Counsel for the Prosecution) . . . W. H. Utley.

Sergeant Sticktoit (Witness for Prosecution) . . . James Allman.

Constable Potlegoff (Witness for Prosecution) . . . H. B. Tarleton.

Constable Strongithoath (Witness for Prosecution) . . . J. Flockton.

Mary Pinch (a labourer’s wife, accused of theft) . . . May Morris.

Foreman of Jury . . . T. Cantwell.

Jack Freeman (a Socialist, accused of conspiracy, sedition, and obstruction of the highway) . . . H. H. Sparling.

Archbishop of Canterbury (Witness for Defence) . . . W. Morris.

Lord Tennyson (Witness for Defence) . . . A. Brookes.

Professor Tyndall (Witness for Defence) . . . H. Bartlett.

William Joyce (a Socialist Ensign) . . .  H. A. Barker.

Usher . . . J. Lane.

Clerk of the Court . . . J. Turner.

Jurymen, Interrupters, Revolutionists, etc., etc.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.—PART II.

Citizen Nupkins (late Justice)  . . . W. Blundell,

Mary Pinch . . . May Morris.

William Joyce (late Socialist Ensign) . . . H. A. Barker.

Jack Freeman . . . H. H. Sparling.

1st Neighbour . . . H. B. Tarleton.

2nd Neighbour . . . J. Lane.

3rd Neighbour . . . H. Graham.

Robert Pinch, and other Neighbours, Men and Women.

PART I.

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SCENE.—A Court of Justice.

Usher, Clerk of the Court, Mr. Hungary, Q.C., and others.  Mr. La-di-da, the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it.  [Enter Mr. Justice Nupkins.

Usher.  Silence!—silence!

Mr. Justice Nupkins.  Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury, after a very long and careful consideration of your remarkable and strange case, of a very serious offence; an offence which squeamish moralists are apt to call robbing the widow and orphan; a cant phrase also, with which I hesitate to soil my lips, designates this offence as swindling.  You will permit me to remark that the very fact that such nauseous and improper words can be used about the conduct of a gentleman shows how far you