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4,014 | 2027_act_4,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon comes out from under the table. He's fuming. He can't believe what a "monster" Tartuffe is . Elmire tells him to go back under the table and wait until he's completely sure of Tartuffe's treachery. She tells him to hide again, but he can only just manage to hide behind Elmire when... | [
"SCENE VI",
"ORGON, ELMIRE",
"ORGON (crawling out from under the table)\n That is, I own, a man ... abominable!\n I can't get over it; the whole thing floors me.",
"ELMIRE\n What? You come out so soon? You cannot mean it!\n Get back under the table; 'tis not time yet;\n Wait till the end, to see, and mak... |
4,015 | 2027_act_4,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tartuffe comes in, ready to go. Everything is clear. He does not see Orgon. Orgon comes out, guns blazing. Well, not literally. He starts chewing Tartuffe out, and claims to have "long suspected" him . It seems Tartuffe doesn't have a monopoly on lying. When Orgon tells Tartuffe to hit the road, Tartuffe turns the tabl... | [
"SCENE VII",
"TARTUFFE, ELMIRE, ORGON",
"TARTUFFE (not seeing Orgon)\n All things conspire toward my satisfaction,\n Madam, I've searched the whole apartment through.\n There's no one here; and now my ravished soul ...",
"ORGON (stopping him)\n Softly! You are too eager in your amours;\n You needn't be s... |
4,016 | 2027_act_4,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elmire is confused by this last remark; she asks Orgon what Tartuffe meant. Orgon, dolt that he is, has signed a "deed of gift," a document that transfers ownership of something to another party. In this case, that something, seems to be, well, everything. To top it all off, he fears that Tartuffe may have made off wit... | [
"SCENE VIII",
"ELMIRE, ORGON",
"ELMIRE\n What sort of speech is this? What can it mean?",
"ORGON\n My faith, I'm dazed. This is no laughing matter.",
"ELMIRE\n What?",
"ORGON\n From his words I see my great mistake;\n The deed of gift is one thing troubles me.",
"ELMIRE\n The deed of gift ...",
... |
4,017 | 2027_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At this point, Orgon is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Cleante tries to calm him down. He asks him what's the matter. As it turns out, Orgon's fears were confirmed. Tartuffe has made off with the contents of the "strongbox," also known as a safe. It seems that, long ago, Orgon's friend Argas broug... | [
"ACT V SCENE I",
"ORGON, CLEANTE",
"CLEANTE\n Whither away so fast?",
"ORGON\n How should I know?",
"CLEANTE\n Methinks we should begin by taking counsel\n To see what can be done to meet the case.",
"ORGON\n I'm all worked up about that wretched box.\n More than all else it drives me to despair."... |
4,018 | 2027_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Damis enters; he's heard the bad news about Tartuffe, and he's ready to help...by killing him. Cleante tells him to cool his jets. | [
"SCENE II",
"DAMIS, ORGON, CLEANTE",
"DAMIS\n What! father, can the scoundrel threaten you,\n Forget the many benefits received,\n And in his base abominable pride\n Make of your very favours arms against you?",
"ORGON\n Too true, my son. It tortures me to think on't.",
"DAMIS\n Let me alone, I'll cho... |
4,019 | 2027_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame Pernelle, Mariane, Elmire, and Dorine show up. Madame Pernelle can't believe the stuff she's been hearing. Orgon gets his mom up to speed on what's happened. He tells her how Tartuffe duped him, took his stuff, and tried to seduce his wife. Madame Pernelle still can't believe what she's hearing and she tells Org... | [
"SCENE III",
"MADAME PERNELLE, ORGON, ELMIRE, CLEANTE, MARIANE, DAMIS, DORINE",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n What's this? I hear of fearful mysteries!",
"ORGON\n Strange things indeed, for my own eyes to witness;\n You see how I'm requited for my kindness,\n I zealously receive a wretched beggar,\n I lodge him, en... |
4,020 | 2027_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Monsieur Loyal enters. He's looking for the master of the house. As it turns out, Loyal has been sent by Tartuffe. Before going to meet him, Orgon asks Cleante for some advice. Cleante tells him that he just needs to keep a cool head. When Loyal greets Orgon kindly, Orgon takes this as a sign of good will, and hopes Ta... | [
"SCENE IV",
"ORGON, MADAME PERNELLE, ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE, DAMIS, DORINE,\n MR. LOYAL",
"MR. LOYAL (to Dorine, at the back of the stage)\n Good day, good sister. Pray you, let me see\n The master of the house.",
"DORINE\n He's occupied;\n I think he can see nobody at present.",
"MR. LOYAL\n I'm no... |
4,021 | 2027_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon turns to his mother and says, "I told you so." Of course now she's shocked by what she's seen. Dorine tells them all not to be so ungrateful ; after all, Tartuffe's just trying to rid them of all the earthly things that are separating them from heaven. Orgon tells her to shut up. Cleante reminds everyone that the... | [
"SCENE V",
"ORGON, MADAME PERNELLE, ELMIRE, CLEANTE, MARIANE, DAMIS, DORINE",
"ORGON\n Well, mother, am I right or am I not?\n This writ may help you now to judge the matter.\n Or don't you see his treason even yet?",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!",
"DORINE (to Orgon)\n ... |
4,022 | 2027_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Just then, Valere shows up - and he's got even more bad news. He's just had word that Tartuffe has denounced Orgon to the King and used the contents of the strongbox to back up his claims. He tells Orgon that he must flee the country immediately. Cleante states the obvious: Tartuffe's done this to make sure he can seiz... | [
"SCENE VI",
"VALERE, ORGON, MADAME PERNELLE, ELMIRE, CLEANTE, MARIANE, DAMIS,\n DORINE",
"VALERE\n 'Tis with regret, sir, that I bring bad news;\n But urgent danger forces me to do so.\n A close and intimate friend of mine, who knows\n The interest I take in what concerns you,\n Has gone so far, for my sa... |
4,023 | 2027_act_5,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tartuffe shows up, with a police office in tow. He's got even worse news for Orgon: he's headed to prison. Orgon curses Tartuffe and calls him a villain. Tartuffe pays no attention, saying that "those who serve Heaven must expect abuse" . He still hasn't given up his self-righteous act. Cleante and Dorine insult Tartuf... | [
"SCENE VII",
"TARTUFFE, AN OFFICER, MADAME PERNELLE, ORGON, ELMIRE, CLEANTE,\n MARIANE, VALERE, DAMIS, DORINE",
"TARTUFFE (stopping Orgon)\n Softly, sir, softly; do not run so fast;\n You haven't far to go to find your lodging;\n By order of the prince, we here arrest you.",
"ORGON\n Traitor! You saved t... |
3,993 | 2027_tartuffe:_summary_&_analysis_act_1_scene_1_|_tartuffe_play_summary_&_study_gu1de_|_cl1ffsnotes | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame Pernelle is ready to leave her son Orgon's house because she finds it appalling that no one pays any attention to her. She offers everyone her good advice, and everyone tends to contradict or ignore her. She tells her grandson, Damis, that he is a dunce; her granddaughter, who seems so shy and demure, is censure... | [
"ACT I SCENE I",
"MADAME PERNELLE and FLIPOTTE, her servant; ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE,\n DAMIS, DORINE",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.",
"ELMIRE\n You hurry so, I hardly can attend you.",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Then don't, my daughter-in law. Stay where you are.\n I can dis... |
4,024 | 2027_scenes_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Orgon arrives from the country, he immediately inquires about his household. But he ignores Dorine's report of his wife's indisposition and, instead, inquires about the health of Tartuffe. Each time he shows concern for Tartuffe, Dorine tells him more bad news about his wife. Totally unresponsive to his wife's pro... | [
"SCENE IV",
"CLEANTE, DAMIS, DORINE",
"DAMIS\n I wish you'd say a word to him about\n My sister's marriage; I suspect Tartuffe\n Opposes it, and puts my father up\n To all these wretched shifts. You know, besides,\n How nearly I'm concerned in it myself;\n If love unites my sister and Valere,\n I love hi... |
3,994 | 2027_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon finds his daughter alone and asks her if she will obey him in all things. Being a dutiful daughter, she tells him it is her pleasure always to please her father. Therefore, Orgon instructs her to say that she finds Tartuffe to be a very worthy man and that she would be delighted to be his wife. Mariane then point... | [
"SCENE II",
"CLEANTE, DORINE",
"CLEANTE\n I won't escort her down,\n For fear she might fall foul of me again;\n The good old lady ...",
"DORINE\n Bless us! What a pity\n She shouldn't hear the way you speak of her!\n She'd surely tell you you're too \"good\" by half,\n And that she's not so \"old\" as... |
3,995 | 2027_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Orgon leaves to recover his composure, Dorine immediately begins to attack Mariane, who did not stand up to her father and openly refuse to marry Tartuffe. Mariane defends herself by saying that she has lived for so long under her father's strict control that she can't oppose him now. Dorine then begins to paint ... | [
"SCENE III",
"ELMIRE, MARIANE, DAMIS, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"ELMIRE (to Cleante)\n You're very lucky to have missed the speech\n She gave us at the door. I see my husband\n Is home again. He hasn't seen me yet,\n So I'll go up and wait till he comes in.",
"CLEANTE\n And I, to save time, will await him here;\... |
4,025 | 2027_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon's son Damis is raving because he has just heard of his father's plan to force Mariane to marry Tartuffe. He tells Dorine that he is determined to expose Tartuffe as a hypocritical scoundrel. Dorine wants Damis to calm down because she has already arranged for Orgon's wife, Elmire, to talk with Tartuffe, and she f... | [
"ACT II SCENE I",
"ORGON, MARIANE",
"ORGON\n Now, Mariane.",
"MARIANE\n Yes, father?",
"ORGON\n Come; I'll tell you\n A secret.",
"MARIANE\n Yes ... What are you looking for?",
"ORGON (looking into a small closet-room)\n To see there's no one there to spy upon us;\n That little closet's mighty ... |
4,026 | 2027_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Tartuffe inquires about Elmire's health and pays her some obvious compliments, he then expresses his joy at being alone with her. She tells him that she wants to discuss something confidential with him and he responds by saying that he has long wanted to open his heart to her. He takes her hand and expresses his ... | [
"SCENE III",
"MARIANE, DORINE",
"DORINE\n Say, have you lost the tongue from out your head?\n And must I speak your role from A to Zed?\n You let them broach a project that's absurd,\n And don't oppose it with a single word!",
"MARIANE\n What can I do? My father is the master.",
"DORINE\n Do? Everythi... |
4,027 | 2027_scenes_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon arrives at the opportune moment and Damis tries to reveal that Tartuffe has been trying to seduce Elmire and is thus filled with treachery. He explains that Elmire was not going to reveal the offense because of her gentility, and Elmire responds that she sees no need of ruining her husband's peace of mind when he... | [
"SCENE V ORGON, ELMIRE, DAMIS, TARTUFFE",
"DAMIS\n Father, we've news to welcome your arrival,\n That's altogether novel, and surprising.\n You are well paid for your caressing care,\n And this fine gentleman rewards your love\n Most handsomely, with zeal that seeks no less\n Than your dishonour, as has ... |
4,028 | 2027_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleante confronts Tartuffe and suggests that it is not the act of a religious man to cause such strife in a family and to allow a father to disinherit his son. Tartuffe argues that he would love to see Damis reinstated, but he is afraid that people would then interpret his act incorrectly. Cleante points out the warped... | [
"ACT III SCENE I",
"DAMIS, DORINE",
"DAMIS\n May lightning strike me dead this very instant,\n May I be everywhere proclaimed a scoundrel,\n If any reverence or power shall stop me,\n And if I don't do straightway something desperate!",
"DORINE\n I beg you, moderate this towering passion;\n Your fat... |
4,005 | 2027_scenes_4-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alone with her husband, Elmire instructs Orgon to hide under a table and not to be surprised by some strange behavior on her part. She informs him that she will be only too glad to drop the entire act whenever he is fully satisfied that Tartuffe is a hypocrite who is determined to seduce her. She also reminds Orgon to ... | [
"SCENE IV ELMIRE, DAMIS, TARTUFFE",
"DAMIS (coming out of the closet-room where he had been hiding)\n No, I say! This thing must be made public.\n I was just there, and overheard it all;\n And Heaven's goodness must have brought me there\n On purpose to confound this scoundrel's pride\n And grant me means... |
4,029 | 2027_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon explains that the strongbox contains some papers which were left in his keeping by a friend. If the papers were made public, both Orgon and his friend would be in serious trouble. Earlier, Tartuffe had persuaded Orgon to allow him to keep the entire strongbox and now Tartuffe has taken the secret papers and left.... | [
"ACT IV SCENE I",
"CLEANTE, TARTUFFE",
"CLEANTE\n Yes, it's become the talk of all the town,\n And make a stir that's scarcely to your credit;\n And I have met you, sir, most opportunely,\n To tell you in a word my frank opinion.\n Not to sift out this scandal to the bottom,\n Suppose the worst for us--... |
4,030 | 2027_scenes_3-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Madame Pernelle, Orgon's mother, arrives and hears her son explain that he has been the victim of the hypocrite Tartuffe. Madame Pernelle reminds her son that the righteous are always maligned and that the people of the house have been slandering the dear, pious Tartuffe. Orgon tries to explain that he was present and ... | [
"SCENE III",
"ORGON, ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"ORGON\n So ho! I'm glad to find you all together.",
"(To Mariane)\n Here is the contract that shall make you happy,\n My dear. You know already what it means.",
"MARIANE (on her knees before Orgon)\n Father, I beg you, in the name of Heaven\n Tha... |
4,031 | 2027_scenes_6-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mariane's fiance, Valere, arrives and explains that he has heard in confidence that Orgon is in dire trouble concerning some secret documents which Tartuffe turned over to the king. Tartuffe, he says, has denounced Orgon as a traitor to the king and, since there is a warrant out for Orgon's arrest, Valere has brought m... | [
"SCENE VI",
"ORGON, ELMIRE",
"ORGON (crawling out from under the table)\n That is, I own, a man ... abominable!\n I can't get over it; the whole thing floors me.",
"ELMIRE\n What? You come out so soon? You cannot mean it!\n Get back under the table; 'tis not time yet;\n Wait till the end, to see, and mak... |
4,032 | 2446_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curtain opens on the Editorial Office. Billing and Hovstad are there, talking about printing the doctor's report. Billing criticizes Aslaksen, the publisher, for being too cowardly. Both men are thrilled at the possibilities of bringing a liberal administration in after the winds of change sweep away the people in ... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Stockmann and his family are at home, cleaning up rocks people had thrown through their windows. It seems the glazier will not come to fix their windows, and, as Stockmann realizes when he reads a letter, their landlord evicted them. He tries to comfort Catherine that they will be happier in America but she is unconvin... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,034 | 2446_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lights rise on the interior Dr. Thomas Stockmann's house. It is simple but neat. We can see the living room, and behind it a door opens into the dining room. Currently Billing, a newspaperman, is sitting at the dining room table, with a napkin tucked under his chin. Mrs. Stockmann hands him a plate with a big piece of ... | [
"ACT I",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is\nplainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are\ntwo doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the\ndoctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the\nhall, is a door leading to t... |
4,032 | 2446_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Doctor's living room. Mrs. Stockmann enters carrying a sealed letter. She calls for her husband, saying it's a letter from his brother. Stockmann enters and opens the letter. His brother has returned the stuff the Doctor sent to him in Act 1 and is coming by for a visit. Mrs. Stockmann worries that the Mayor will b... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Hovstad's office at the town newspaper, The People's Herald. Hovstad sits at his desk writing. Billing enters. He's just read the Doctor's report and says it's pulverizing. Hovstad agrees. Both are very excited to stick it to the Mayor and his conservative buddies. The newspapermen think the scandal will usher in a... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,035 | 2446_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A really big room in Captain Horster's house. Lots of people are hanging around waiting to hear the Doctor speak. Billing makes his way through the crowd and sets up to record the event. Captain Horster brings in Mrs. Stockmann, Petra, Eylif, and Morten. Mrs. Stockmann tells Captain Horster that it was kind of him to l... | [
"ACT IV",
"(SCENE.—A big old-fashioned room in CAPTAIN HORSTER'S house. At the\nback folding-doors, which are standing open, lead to an ante-room.\nThree windows in the left-hand wall. In the middle of the opposite wall\na platform has been erected. On this is a small table with two candles,\na water-bottle and g... |
4,036 | 2446_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Stockmann's study. The walls are lined with various specimens in jars. The widows are shattered, and the room is a total mess. Dr. Stockmann rakes a stone from under a cabinet with an umbrella. He calls out to his wife that he's found another one. Mrs. Stockmann enters and comments that he'll probably find a lot mo... | [
"ACT V",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S study. Bookcases and cabinets containing\nspecimens, line the walls. At the back is a door leading to the hall;\nin the foreground on the left, a door leading to the sitting-room. In\nthe righthand wall are two windows, of which all the panes are broken.\nThe DOCTOR'S desk, litte... |
4,034 | 2446_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the home of Dr. Stockmann, Mrs. Stockmann is offering Mr. Billings, an assistant on the local paper, some more food. She thinks she hears the editor, Mr. Hovstad coming, but it is her brother-in-law, the Mayor . He is somewhat shocked to see that the Stockmanns have meat for supper. Mr. Hovstad appears and tells the... | [
"ACT I",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is\nplainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are\ntwo doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the\ndoctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the\nhall, is a door leading to t... |
4,032 | 2446_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Stockmann has his manuscript returned to him with a note from the Burgomaster that they should meet at noontime. Mrs. Stockmann suggests that perhaps he should share the honor with his brother. Dr. Stockmann is willing to share the honor if he can get the thing straightened out. Old Morton Kiil, the man who adopted... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the editor's room of the "People's Messenger," Hovstad and his assistant, Billing, are discussing Dr. Stockmann's article. They feel that now the Burgomaster is in trouble and they will use this trouble to hound him out of office. They hope to replace him with men of more "liberal ideas." Dr. Stockmann arrives and t... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,035 | 2446_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the large bottom room of Captain Horster's house, there is to be a meeting. It is heard that Dr. Stockmann was unable to find another meeting place and his old friend offered him this place. The citizens gathering are wondering what they should do. They decide to watch Aslaksen and do as he does. Dr. Stockmann and h... | [
"ACT IV",
"(SCENE.—A big old-fashioned room in CAPTAIN HORSTER'S house. At the\nback folding-doors, which are standing open, lead to an ante-room.\nThree windows in the left-hand wall. In the middle of the opposite wall\na platform has been erected. On this is a small table with two candles,\na water-bottle and g... |
4,036 | 2446_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Stockmann's home is in disorder. He appears holding a stone which someone cast through his window. He wants to save it as a reminder of his days of persecution. He receives a letter from the landlord giving him notice to move. Petra arrives from the school and tells her family that she has been dismissed. All of th... | [
"ACT V",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S study. Bookcases and cabinets containing\nspecimens, line the walls. At the back is a door leading to the hall;\nin the foreground on the left, a door leading to the sitting-room. In\nthe righthand wall are two windows, of which all the panes are broken.\nThe DOCTOR'S desk, litte... |
4,034 | 2446_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is Dr. Stockmann's living room; the dining room is visible through a door downstage. Mrs. Stockmann welcomes Billing to her dinner table. He is late, and so the meat is cold. There is a knock at the door; it is her brother-in-law, the mayor. He says he doesn't want to indulge in so much food so late at night.... | [
"ACT I",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is\nplainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are\ntwo doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the\ndoctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the\nhall, is a door leading to t... |
4,032 | 2446_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is again Dr. Stockmann's living room. Mrs. Stockmann gives him a letter. It is the report on the pollution of the baths that he had sent off to his brother the mayor. It has been returned, with a note that the mayor will come by to speak with the doctor. He and Mrs. Stockmann agree that the mayor is probabl... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The set is the editorial office at the People's Herald. Hovstad is writing at the desk. Billing enters with Dr. Stockmann's report. They discuss the doctor's powerful writing and how they hope to use it to attack the government. Aslaksen is in the other room, and they are careful not to let him hear. Hovstad is excited... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,035 | 2446_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is a large hall in Captain Horster's house. It is crowded with townspeople. A number of them are discussing the meeting, and they decide to watch how Aslaksen responds to the issues presented. Billing is there to cover the meeting for the paper. Horster leads in Mrs. Stockmann and the children and sits them... | [
"ACT IV",
"(SCENE.—A big old-fashioned room in CAPTAIN HORSTER'S house. At the\nback folding-doors, which are standing open, lead to an ante-room.\nThree windows in the left-hand wall. In the middle of the opposite wall\na platform has been erected. On this is a small table with two candles,\na water-bottle and g... |
4,036 | 2446_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is Dr. Stockmann's study. The windowpanes are broken. The doctor is picking up stones that have been thrown through the windows. His landlord sends a letter giving the Stockmanns notice that they have to move out. The doctor doesn't care because he is taking his family to the New World on Horster's next boa... | [
"ACT V",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S study. Bookcases and cabinets containing\nspecimens, line the walls. At the back is a door leading to the hall;\nin the foreground on the left, a door leading to the sitting-room. In\nthe righthand wall are two windows, of which all the panes are broken.\nThe DOCTOR'S desk, litte... |
4,034 | 2446_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens in the evening in Dr. Stockmann's sitting room. The doctor is seated at the dining table, and his wife is serving him. Peter Stockmann, the Burgomaster and Dr. Stockmann's brother, enters wearing an overcoat and an official gold-laced cap. When Mrs. Stockmann invites him to stay for dinner, he politely d... | [
"ACT I",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is\nplainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are\ntwo doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the\ndoctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the\nhall, is a door leading to t... |
4,032 | 2446_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II opens with Dr. Stockmann in his sitting room. Mrs. Stockmann hands over a sealed letter from the Burgomaster, which contains the manuscript sent by Dr. Stockmann and a message about the Burgomaster's visit at noon. Mrs. Stockmann urges her husband to be at home at that time. Morten Kiil enters. He has heard abou... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act III opens in the editor's room of the People's Messenger. Billing is excited, for he has just read Dr. Stockmann's article and hears the "revolution thundering afar." He knows that the publication of the article will put the Burgomaster in a real fix. If he agrees to the doctor's demands to repair the baths and eli... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,035 | 2446_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Stockmann is scheduled to make a speech on the present condition of the baths at Captain Horster's house. Citizens are arriving to hear him in large numbers, some of them carrying whistles and horns. Most of the citizens are somewhat confused. According to the People's Messenger, the doctor is wrong about the baths... | [
"ACT IV",
"(SCENE.—A big old-fashioned room in CAPTAIN HORSTER'S house. At the\nback folding-doors, which are standing open, lead to an ante-room.\nThree windows in the left-hand wall. In the middle of the opposite wall\na platform has been erected. On this is a small table with two candles,\na water-bottle and g... |
4,036 | 2446_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This act opens with Dr. Stockmann in his study, which is in disarray. In a despondent mood, the doctor is piling up stones on the table as 'relics.' The stones are the ones pelted at him by the citizens; he plans to save them as "heirlooms," reminders for his children. Except for his family, the doctor is isolated in t... | [
"ACT V",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S study. Bookcases and cabinets containing\nspecimens, line the walls. At the back is a door leading to the hall;\nin the foreground on the left, a door leading to the sitting-room. In\nthe righthand wall are two windows, of which all the panes are broken.\nThe DOCTOR'S desk, litte... |
4,034 | 2446_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is described and this first act is based in Dr Thomas Stockmann's sitting room. It is described as 'modestly appointed' and 'neatly furnished'. One door leads off to the hall, another to his consulting room and the third to the rest of the house. There are also open 'communicating' doors that reveal the din... | [
"ACT I",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is\nplainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are\ntwo doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to the\ndoctor's study. In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the\nhall, is a door leading to t... |
4,032 | 2446_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act Two begins the following morning in the same place. Kate gives Thomas a letter from Peter. He has returned the report and analysis, and Thomas says Peter is coming to see him at midday. Thomas says Peter will not be pleased that he made the discovery, but thinks he will be glad enough underneath. Kate asks him to b... | [
"ACT II",
"(SCENE.—The same. The door into the dining room is shut. It is\nmorning. MRS. STOCKMANN, with a sealed letter in her hand, comes in\nfrom the dining room, goes to the door of the DOCTOR'S study, and peeps\nin.)",
"Mrs. Stockmann. Are you in, Thomas?",
"Dr. Stockmann (from within his room). Yes, I h... |
4,033 | 2446_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This act is set in the editor's room at the office of The Herald. One door leads to the printing office and another to the rest of the offices. There is a large table in the middle covered with books, papers and newspapers and there is a desk at the window. The room is described as 'dingy and cheerless'. Hovstad is sat... | [
"ACT III",
"(SCENE.—The editorial office of the \"People's Messenger.\" The entrance\ndoor is on the left-hand side of the back wall; on the right-hand side\nis another door with glass panels through which the printing room can\nbe seen. Another door in the right-hand wall. In the middle of the room\nis a large t... |
4,036 | 2446_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the following morning in Thomas's consulting room and most of the panes are broken in the windows. Thomas calls to Kate to say that he has found another couple of stones and she says he will probably find more. He asks about the glazier and Kate says he was not sure if he could get round today; Thomas thinks he i... | [
"ACT V",
"(SCENE.—DR. STOCKMANN'S study. Bookcases and cabinets containing\nspecimens, line the walls. At the back is a door leading to the hall;\nin the foreground on the left, a door leading to the sitting-room. In\nthe righthand wall are two windows, of which all the panes are broken.\nThe DOCTOR'S desk, litte... |
4,037 | 23045_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke of Vienna laments that his city is spoiled and its people too indulgent. However, he must leave the city, and names Angelo to be his replacement while he is away. Escalus, one of the Duke's advisors, believes Angelo worthy of the task; the Duke also says he is confident of Angelo's abilities. Angelo is somewha... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I. _An apartment in the DUKE'S palace._",
"_Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, _Lords_ and _Attendants_._",
"_Duke._ Escalus.",
"_Escal._ My lord.",
"_Duke._ Of government the properties to unfold,\nWould seem in me to affect speech and discourse;\nSince I am put to know that your own science ... |
4,038 | 23045_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Angelo states that he is determined to make people wary of the law again; Escalus thinks that some enforcement of the law is necessary, but warns Angelo against being far too strict and showing no mercy. Escalus laments to see "some contemned by a fault alone," but he doesn't want to struggle against the stubborn Angel... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"_A hall in ANGELO'S house._",
"_Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a _Justice, Provost, Officers_,\n and other _Attendants_, behind._",
"_Ang._ We must not make a scarecrow of the law,\nSetting it up to fear the birds of prey,\nAnd let it keep one shape, till custom make it\nTheir perch, and n... |
4,039 | 23045_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke, disguised as a friar, goes to see Claudio in jail. Claudio says that he is still hoping that he will not have to die, though the Duke tells him to count on death; that way, if he lives, life will be even sweeter to him. Claudio heeds his words, and resigns himself to death if that is what's to come. Isabella ... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"_A room in the prison._",
"_Enter DUKE disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and PROVOST._",
"_Duke._ So, then, you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?",
"_Claud._ The miserable have no other medicine\nBut only hope:\nI've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.",
"_Duke._ Be absolute for death; ... |
4,040 | 23045_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke finds Mariana, and exchanges a few cursory words with her. Isabella enters as Mariana leaves, to tell the Duke that she has agreed to Angelo's plan, and describes the place of meeting. Isabella said that she told Angelo she could only stay briefly, and that she would be bringing a servant with her, which means... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"_The moated grange at ST LUKE'S._",
"_Enter MARIANA and a BOY._",
"_BOY sings._",
"Take, O, take those lips away,\n That so sweetly were forsworn;\nAnd those eyes, the break of day,\n Lights that do mislead the morn:\nBut my kisses bring again, bring again; ... |
4,041 | 23045_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke returns, greeting Angelo and Escalus by saying he has heard that they have done an outstanding job, and that Angelo should be praised for his good work. He calls for Escalus and Angelo to walk with him, as he greets the people of the city. Isabella then kneels before the Duke, and asks to be heard so that she ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"_The city-gate._",
"_MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand. Enter\n DUKE, VARRIUS, LORDS, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, PROVOST,\n OFFICERS, and CITIZENS, at several doors._",
"_Duke._ My very worthy cousin, fairly met!\nOur old and faithful friend, we are glad to see y... |
4,042 | 23045_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At his palace in Vienna, Duke Vincentio makes a big speech about how a lord in his court, Escalus, is the wisest and most knowledgeable guy in Vienna--he knows more about Vienna's laws and people than anybody else. The Duke tells Escalus that he's going out of town. While he's away, Angelo will be in charge. Escalus th... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I. _An apartment in the DUKE'S palace._",
"_Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, _Lords_ and _Attendants_._",
"_Duke._ Escalus.",
"_Escal._ My lord.",
"_Duke._ Of government the properties to unfold,\nWould seem in me to affect speech and discourse;\nSince I am put to know that your own science ... |
4,043 | 23045_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a public place in Vienna, Lucio and two Gentlemen talk about world politics and religion while trading light hearted insults about which one of them may or may not have syphilis. Mistress Overdone, the local bawd enters and Lucio says something like "Speaking of STDs, I've certainly paid for my share of venereal dis... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_A street._",
"_Enter LUCIO and two _Gentlemen_._",
"_Lucio._ If the duke, with the other dukes, come not to\ncomposition with the King of Hungary, why then all the\ndukes fall upon the king.",
"_First Gent._ Heaven grant us its peace, but not the\nKing of Hungary's! ... |
4,044 | 23045_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, the Duke has gone to visit a Friar in his cell in Vienna. We catch the two men in mid-conversation. The Duke explains that he wants to hide out at the local monastery because he wants to spy on Angelo, who thinks the Duke has travelled to Poland. The Duke is adamant that he's NOT seeking refuge at the monast... | [
"SCENE III.",
"_A monastery._",
"_Enter _Duke_ and FRIAR THOMAS._",
"_Duke._ No, holy father; throw away that thought;\nBelieve not that the dribbling dart of love\nCan pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee\nTo give me secret harbour, hath a purpose\nMore grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends ... |
4,045 | 23045_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At a strict and disciplined convent, Isabella and Francesca discuss all the "privileges" Isabella is about to give up by becoming a nun. Isabella says she sure does wish they were stricter at St. Clare's. We interrupt this program for a history snack: In 1538 Henry VIII began the dissolution of all the monasteries and ... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"_A nunnery._",
"_Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA._",
"_Isab._ And have you nuns no farther privileges?",
"_Fran._ Are not these large enough?",
"_Isab._ Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more;\nBut rather wishing a more strict restraint\nUpon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare. ... |
4,046 | 23045_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the courthouse, Angelo and Escalus have gathered to discuss Claudio's case. Angelo insists that they not "make a scarecrow out of the law." Escalus agrees that Claudio should be punished, but he doesn't see any reason to put Claudio to death--that won't really solve anything. Plus, says Escalus, Claudio comes from a... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"_A hall in ANGELO'S house._",
"_Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a _Justice, Provost, Officers_,\n and other _Attendants_, behind._",
"_Ang._ We must not make a scarecrow of the law,\nSetting it up to fear the birds of prey,\nAnd let it keep one shape, till custom make it\nTheir perch, and n... |
4,047 | 23045_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Provost arrives at a room at the Court and asks Angelo if he's absolutely certain that Claudio should be put to death. Angelo tells him to scram. The Provost wants to know what he should do with Juliet, who's about to give birth to her illegitimate child. Angelo orders the Provost to make the "fornicatress" disappe... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_Another room in the same._",
"_Enter PROVOST and a _Servant_._",
"_Serv._ He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight:\nI'll tell him of you.",
"_Prov._ Pray you, do. [_Exit Servant._] I'll know\nHis pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,\nHe hath but as offended in a dream!\nA... |
4,048 | 23045_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, the Duke shows up at the prison disguised as a friar so he can "minister" to the inmates. Juliet enters and the Provost tells the Duke/Friar that Juliet is going to have a baby out of wedlock and her baby daddy is sentenced to die tomorrow. The Duke/Friar asks Juliet if she repents her sin. She does. The Duk... | [
"SCENE III.",
"_A room in a prison._",
"_Enter, severally, DUKE disguised as a friar, and PROVOST._",
"_Duke._ Hail to you, provost!--so I think you are.",
"_Prov._ I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?",
"_Duke._ Bound by my charity and my blest order,\nI come to visit the afflicted spirits\nHe... |
4,049 | 23045_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At his house in Vienna, Angelo tells the audience that he's been praying a lot lately, but even when he prays, he thinks of Isabella, which makes him feel slimy. A servant announces that Isabella has arrived and Angelo gets all hot and bothered. Isabella enters and Angelo tells her immediately that Claudio must die. An... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"_A room in ANGELO'S house._",
"_Enter ANGELO._",
"_Ang._ When I would pray and think, I think and pray\nTo several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words;\nWhilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,\nAnchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,\nAs if I did but only chew his name; ... |
4,050 | 23045_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens in Claudio's prison cell, where the Duke is still traipsing around pretending to be a friar. Claudio says he's prepared to die, but he still has hope that he might get to live. The Duke attempts to comfort Claudio while preparing him for the possibility of death. Claudio finally says he's ready for what... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"_A room in the prison._",
"_Enter DUKE disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and PROVOST._",
"_Duke._ So, then, you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?",
"_Claud._ The miserable have no other medicine\nBut only hope:\nI've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.",
"_Duke._ Be absolute for death; ... |
4,051 | 23045_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elbow and Pompey burst in and Elbow accuses Pompey, again, of being a criminal. The Duke tells Pompey that he's disgusted by the way Pompey earns his living as a pimp. How can Pompey live with himself? The Duke orders Pompey to prison, where Pompey should be punished and rehabilitated before his release. Elbow insists ... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_The street before the prison._",
"_Enter, on one side, DUKE disguised as before; on the other, ELBOW,\n and _Officers_ with POMPEY._",
"_Elb._ Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you\nwill needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we\nshall have all the world drink brown and whit... |
4,052 | 23045_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke and Isabella pay Mariana a little visit at her farm, which is surrounded by a moat. When they arrive, Mariana is listening to a Boy singing a sad song about a jilted lover. When Mariana sees the Duke she tells the kid to scram so she can talk in privacy. Apparently, the Duke has visited with Mariana before and... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"_The moated grange at ST LUKE'S._",
"_Enter MARIANA and a BOY._",
"_BOY sings._",
"Take, O, take those lips away,\n That so sweetly were forsworn;\nAnd those eyes, the break of day,\n Lights that do mislead the morn:\nBut my kisses bring again, bring again; ... |
4,053 | 23045_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the prison, the Provost makes Pompey an offer he can't refuse. If Pompey agrees to be his assistant executioner, his prison sentence will be reduced and he'll get to go home. Pompey cracks a dirty joke about chopping off a man's head and cutting off a woman's "maidenhead" and then agrees to the deal. Pompey points o... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_A room in the prison._",
"_Enter PROVOST and POMPEY._",
"_Prov._ Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?",
"_Pom._ If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be\na married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never cut off\na woman's head.",
"_Prov._ Come, sir, leave me your... |
4,054 | 23045_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pompey takes a look around the prison and declares that he feels like he's at his workplace, Mistress Overdone's brothel. Abhorson calls Barnardine out of his cell and announces that it's time for him to be executed. Barnardine says he was partying and drinking all night, so he's not fit to be executed right now, on ac... | [
"SCENE III.",
"_Another room in the same._",
"_Enter POMPEY._",
"_Pom._ I am as well acquainted here as I was in our\nhouse of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's\nown house, for here be many of her old customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in for a commodity\nof brown paper and... |
4,055 | 23045_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Angelo's house, Escalus and Angelo read a letter from the Duke and note that Vincentio's letters don't seem to make any sense. Has he gone mad, they wonder. Angelo also wonders why the Duke wants them to meet him at the city's gate and why the Duke wants them to make an announcement that anyone who's got a beef with... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"_A room in ANGELO'S house._",
"_Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS._",
"_Escal._ Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.",
"_Ang._ In most uneven and distracted manner. His\nactions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom\nbe not tainted! And why meet him at the gates,\nand redeliver ... |
4,056 | 23045_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke meets with Friar Peter just outside the city and gives him....a bunch of letters. Duke Vincentio instructs Friar Peter to deliver the letters to him when the time is right. We learn that the Provost knows of the Duke's elaborate scheme to "return" to Vienna and fix the big mess Angelo has made. A guy named Var... | [
"SCENE V.",
"_Fields without the town._",
"_Enter DUKE in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER._",
"_Duke._ These letters at fit time deliver me:\n [_Giving letters._\nThe provost knows our purpose and our plot.\nThe matter being afoot, keep your instruction,\nAnd hold... |
4,057 | 23045_act_4,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street near the gate to Vienna, we catch Mariana and Isabella in mid-conversation about the plan to punk Angelo. Isabella reveals that the Friar has advised her to accuse Angelo of sleeping with her. Even though she knows it's a lie , she's willing to go along with the scheme. We also learn that Isabella has been ... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"_Street near the city-gate._",
"_Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA._",
"_Isab._ To speak so indirectly I am loath:\nI would say the truth; but to accuse him so,\nThat is your part: yet I am advised to do it;\nHe says, to veil full purpose.",
"_Mari._ Be ruled by him.",
"_Isab._... |
4,041 | 23045_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke makes a grand entrance at the city gate, where a big crowd is there to greet him, including Angelo and Escalus. The Duke turns to Angelo and Escalus and says something like "I hear you two have been doing a bang up job in my absence." Duke Vincentio proceeds to make a big deal about how grateful he is for Ange... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"_The city-gate._",
"_MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand. Enter\n DUKE, VARRIUS, LORDS, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, PROVOST,\n OFFICERS, and CITIZENS, at several doors._",
"_Duke._ My very worthy cousin, fairly met!\nOur old and faithful friend, we are glad to see y... |
4,058 | 23045_act_1,_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke calls Lord Angelo to grant him the temporary leadership of Vienna. Angelo modestly refuses, asking the Duke to test his skill in some smaller way first. The Duke tells him that his mind is already made up, and that he must leave right away. Meanwhile, on a street, Lucio talks with two other gentlemen about rec... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I. _An apartment in the DUKE'S palace._",
"_Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, _Lords_ and _Attendants_._",
"_Duke._ Escalus.",
"_Escal._ My lord.",
"_Duke._ Of government the properties to unfold,\nWould seem in me to affect speech and discourse;\nSince I am put to know that your own science ... |
4,045 | 23045_act_1,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke is at a monastery, asking Friar Thomas to hide him there. He tells the friar that he has good reasons for hiding, and that he has lied to Angelo about his destination. The Duke explains that for the past fourteen years the laws have been flagrantly disobeyed, with little reproach from the government. As the Du... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"_A nunnery._",
"_Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA._",
"_Isab._ And have you nuns no farther privileges?",
"_Fran._ Are not these large enough?",
"_Isab._ Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more;\nBut rather wishing a more strict restraint\nUpon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare. ... |
4,046 | 23045_act_ii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Angelo tells Escalus that they "must not make a scarecrow of the law" , meaning that they must not waver in their decisions. Escalus argues that they should "cut a little" rather than "fall, and bruise to death," comparing law enforcement to pruning a tree; it is better to trim the tree than to cut it down. He also bri... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"_A hall in ANGELO'S house._",
"_Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a _Justice, Provost, Officers_,\n and other _Attendants_, behind._",
"_Ang._ We must not make a scarecrow of the law,\nSetting it up to fear the birds of prey,\nAnd let it keep one shape, till custom make it\nTheir perch, and n... |
4,059 | 23045_act_2,_scenes_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The provost goes to see Angelo, hoping to convince him to change his mind about Claudio. He mentions Juliet, saying that she is going to give birth soon. A servant announces that Isabella has arrived. She tells Angelo that she abhors Claudio's vice, fornication, and that she is sorry to have to beg for his pardon. Yet ... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_Another room in the same._",
"_Enter PROVOST and a _Servant_._",
"_Serv._ He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight:\nI'll tell him of you.",
"_Prov._ Pray you, do. [_Exit Servant._] I'll know\nHis pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,\nHe hath but as offended in a dream!\nA... |
4,050 | 23045_act_iii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke asks Claudio if he hopes to be pardoned by Angelo, and Claudio says that he still hopes he will be, but is ready to die. The Duke tries to resign him to death, saying that he should think of it as better than life. He describes how life is more frightening than death, because it has so many complications, and ... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"_A room in the prison._",
"_Enter DUKE disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and PROVOST._",
"_Duke._ So, then, you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?",
"_Claud._ The miserable have no other medicine\nBut only hope:\nI've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.",
"_Duke._ Be absolute for death; ... |
4,051 | 23045_act_iii,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the prison, the Duke meets Elbow and Pompey. The Duke asks what crime Pompey has committed, and Elbow tells him that the clown broke the law and is also a pickpocket. Pompey protests, but the Duke will not listen, telling him to go to jail. Lucio approaches, and Pompey says he is a friend. Lucio asks what is go... | [
"SCENE II.",
"_The street before the prison._",
"_Enter, on one side, DUKE disguised as before; on the other, ELBOW,\n and _Officers_ with POMPEY._",
"_Elb._ Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you\nwill needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we\nshall have all the world drink brown and whit... |
4,060 | 23045_act_4,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke visits Mariana and is there when Isabella arrives. Isabella says that Angelo gave her two keys and instructions to meet him in a garden. Angelo showed her the way twice. She told Angelo that a servant will be accompanying her, thinking that she is coming to speak about her brother, so she cannot stay long. Duk... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"_The moated grange at ST LUKE'S._",
"_Enter MARIANA and a BOY._",
"_BOY sings._",
"Take, O, take those lips away,\n That so sweetly were forsworn;\nAnd those eyes, the break of day,\n Lights that do mislead the morn:\nBut my kisses bring again, bring again; ... |
4,061 | 23045_act_4,_scenes_3-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pompey remarks that he is as well acquainted with the prison as with Mistress Overdone's brothel. He adds that many of the same people frequent both places, and lists them. Abhorson enters, telling Pompey to bring Barnadine. Barnadine tells them that he has been drinking all night and does not want to die today. The Du... | [
"SCENE III.",
"_Another room in the same._",
"_Enter POMPEY._",
"_Pom._ I am as well acquainted here as I was in our\nhouse of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's\nown house, for here be many of her old customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in for a commodity\nof brown paper and... |
4,041 | 23045_act_v,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke greets Angelo and Escalus at the city gates. He thanks them. Friar Peter enters with Isabella and tells her to speak to the Duke. She begs him for justice. The Duke tells her to state her complaint briefly to Angelo. Isabella says that she cannot ask Angelo for help, because he is evil. She wants to speak to t... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"_The city-gate._",
"_MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand. Enter\n DUKE, VARRIUS, LORDS, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, PROVOST,\n OFFICERS, and CITIZENS, at several doors._",
"_Duke._ My very worthy cousin, fairly met!\nOur old and faithful friend, we are glad to see y... |
4,062 | 220_part_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As dusk begins to fall, the unnamed narrator of the story stands on the deck of his ship, currently anchored at the mouth of the Meinam River in the Gulf of Siam. The narrator is the Captain of the ship who leaves the deck to eat supper with his mates. The time is approximately eight o'clock. At supper, the Captain rem... | [
"I",
"On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a\nmysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in\nits division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if\nabandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other\nend of the ocean; for ... |
4,063 | 220_part_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Skipper of the Sephora arrives on board the Captain's ship, looking for any sign of Leggatt. The Skipper is distressed over Leggatt's actions and disappearance, explaining that he has been at sea for thirty-seven years and has never seen anything like what happened with Leggatt. The Captain offers the Skipper the e... | [
"II",
"The skipper of the Sephora had a thin red whisker all round his face,\nand the sort of complexion that goes with hair of that color; also the\nparticular, rather smeary shade of blue in the eyes. He was not exactly\na showy figure; his shoulders were high, his stature but middling--one\nleg slightly more b... |
4,064 | 1754_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set in a park, just after sunset, somewhere on Sorin's provincial Russian estate. An improvised, makeshift theater stands center stage, with its curtain down. Behind the stage, a broad path leads away toward a lake. The makeshift stage, erected for the performance of Konstantin's play that is to take place... | [
"ACT I",
"_The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of\ntrees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in\nthe depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage,\ntemporarily erected for the performance of amateur theatricals, and\nwhich screens the lake from v... |
4,065 | 1754_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curtain rises on a croquet lawn, with Sorin's house to the right and the lake to the left. Arkadina, Dorn and Masha sit underneath a tree on one side of the lawn. Arkadina begins the scene by standing Masha up next to her and asking Dorn which of them looks younger. Dorn answers, "of course", that Arkadina looks yo... | [
"ACT II",
"_The lawn in front of SORIN'S house. The house stands in the background,\non a broad terrace. The lake, brightly reflecting the rays of the sun,\nlies to the left. There are flower-beds here and there. It is noon;\nthe day is hot. ARKADINA, DORN, and MASHA are sitting on a bench on the\nlawn, in the sh... |
4,066 | 1754_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curtain rises for the first time on an interior scene: the dining room of Sorin's house, a dining-table center stage, and suitcases and boxes all over the floor. These suitcases are evidence that Arkadina and her party are preparing to depart for the town. Alone together onstage, Trigorin and Masha are having a con... | [
"ACT III",
"_The dining-room of SORIN'S house. Doors open out of it to the right\nand left. A table stands in the centre of the room. Trunks and boxes\nencumber the floor, and preparations for departure are evident. TRIGORIN\nis sitting at a table eating his breakfast, and MASHA is standing beside\nhim_.",
"MAS... |
4,067 | 1754_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two years have passed. The curtain rises on a reception room inside Sorin's house, which Konstantin has turned into his study. It is evening. Medvedenko and Masha enter, both looking for Konstantin. Medvedenko says that it's terrible, rainy weather outside, before adding that the makeshift theater outside should be dis... | [
"ACT IV",
"_A sitting-room in SORIN'S house, which has been converted into a\nwriting-room for TREPLIEFF. To the right and left are doors leading into\ninner rooms, and in the centre is a glass door opening onto a terrace.\nBesides the usual furniture of a sitting-room there is a writing-desk\nin the right-hand c... |
4,064 | 1754_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The stage directions introduce us to Sorin's farm. There's a lake in the distance with a small stage set up in front of it. It's just after sunset. The farm manager's daughter, Masha, and her suitor, Medvedenko, enter. He's a poor schoolteacher. She doesn't love him. Sorin enters with his nephew Konstantin. Sorin is mi... | [
"ACT I",
"_The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of\ntrees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in\nthe depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage,\ntemporarily erected for the performance of amateur theatricals, and\nwhich screens the lake from v... |
4,065 | 1754_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some time has passed. We're still outside, but now on the side lawn, set up for croquet. It's the middle of the day. Dorn had been reading aloud when Arkadina initiates a competition between herself and Masha, with Dorn as the arbiter. Who looks younger, she asks? She gives Masha advice on looking her best. Masha is de... | [
"ACT II",
"_The lawn in front of SORIN'S house. The house stands in the background,\non a broad terrace. The lake, brightly reflecting the rays of the sun,\nlies to the left. There are flower-beds here and there. It is noon;\nthe day is hot. ARKADINA, DORN, and MASHA are sitting on a bench on the\nlawn, in the sh... |
4,066 | 1754_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're in Sorin's dining room. Suitcases are piled up--someone's getting ready to leave. Trigorin and Masha are talking and drinking. Masha confesses that she still loves Konstantin but plans to marry Medvedenko. She thinks marriage will cure her hopeless love. Nina enters; a moment with Trigorin. She gives him a presen... | [
"ACT III",
"_The dining-room of SORIN'S house. Doors open out of it to the right\nand left. A table stands in the centre of the room. Trunks and boxes\nencumber the floor, and preparations for departure are evident. TRIGORIN\nis sitting at a table eating his breakfast, and MASHA is standing beside\nhim_.",
"MAS... |
4,067 | 1754_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's two years later. We're back at Sorin's house, in the parlor. It's evening. Masha and Medvedenko enter. Medvedenko wants to go home, but Masha refuses. She's fine leaving their baby on his own. She really doesn't want to spend time with her family. Konstantin and Paulina enter, setting up a bed for Sorin in Konstan... | [
"ACT IV",
"_A sitting-room in SORIN'S house, which has been converted into a\nwriting-room for TREPLIEFF. To the right and left are doors leading into\ninner rooms, and in the centre is a glass door opening onto a terrace.\nBesides the usual furniture of a sitting-room there is a writing-desk\nin the right-hand c... |
4,068 | 3328_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is a study in Portland Place, London. Onstage is Roebuck Ramsden, a rather elderly man of affluence and affairs. Octavius Robinson, a young poet, is announced by the maid. He appears dressed in an elegant suit of mourning. As Ramsden consoles him, the audience learns that Octavius' benefactor and friend, Mr... | [
"ACT I",
"Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning letters. The study,\nhandsomely and solidly furnished, proclaims the man of means. Not\na speck of dust is visible: it is clear that there are at least two\nhousemaids and a parlormaid downstairs, and a housekeeper upstairs who\ndoes not let them spar... |
4,069 | 3328_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is the carriage drive in the park of the house near Richmond. Jack Tanner, dressed in the contemporary costume for motoring, is watching his chauffeur, Henry Straker, who is repairing the automobile. The conversation between the two reveals that Enry is one of the new type of servants, one who is quite awar... | [
"ACT II",
"On the carriage drive in the park of a country house near Richmond a\nmotor car has broken down. It stands in front of a clump of trees round\nwhich the drive sweeps to the house, which is partly visible through\nthem: indeed Tanner, standing in the drive with the car on his right\nhand, could get an u... |
4,070 | 3328_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is evening, and the setting is that of a natural amphitheater in the Spanish Sierras. A group of about a dozen men recline about a dying campfire, while another serves as lookout on the adjacent rise of ground. These are an international band of brigands dedicated to stopping motor cars and robbing the occupants in ... | [
"ACT III",
"Evening in the Sierra Nevada. Rolling slopes of brown, with olive trees\ninstead of apple trees in the cultivated patches, and occasional prickly\npears instead of gorse and bracken in the wilds. Higher up, tall stone\npeaks and precipices, all handsome and distinguished. No wild nature\nhere: rather ... |
4,071 | 3328_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting now is the garden in an expensive and pretentious villa in Granada. Enry Straker enters with an elderly Irishman. The chauffeur had been asked to deliver a note to Hector at the latter's hotel. He was and still is confused by the fact that this stranger had been identified as Hector Malone but had complied ... | [
"ACT IV",
"The garden of a villa in Granada. Whoever wishes to know what it is like\nmust go to Granada and see. One may prosaically specify a group of hills\ndotted with villas, the Alhambra on the top of one of the hills, and\na considerable town in the valley, approached by dusty white roads in\nwhich the chil... |
4,068 | 3328_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | ACT SUMMARIES WITH NOTES Act I The play opens with an exchange between Mr. Roebuck Ramsden, an older gentleman, and a younger man, Octavius Robinson. Ramsden is consoling Octavius, whose guardian, Mr. Whitefield, has recently passed away. Octavius tells Mr. Ramsden he was never able to fully express his gratitude to Wh... | [
"ACT I",
"Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning letters. The study,\nhandsomely and solidly furnished, proclaims the man of means. Not\na speck of dust is visible: it is clear that there are at least two\nhousemaids and a parlormaid downstairs, and a housekeeper upstairs who\ndoes not let them spar... |
4,072 | 597_chapters_1-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 1 - Mord Gigja is a chieftan whose word is so valued by the nation that "no verdicts were considered valid unless he had been involved" . In Breidafjord lives a man named Hoskuld from a long and distinguished lineage. His brother Hrut is an even-tempered and wise warrior who lives at Hrutsstadir. When Hoskuld holds a f... | [
"1. OF FIDDLE MORD",
"There was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle; he was the\nson of Sigvat the Red, and he dwelt at the \"Vale\" in the\nRangrivervales. He was a mighty chief, and a great taker up of\nsuits, and so great a lawyer that no judgments were thought\nlawful unless he had a hand in them. He ... |
4,073 | 597_chapters_19-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 19 - This chapter introduces Gunnar of Hlidarendi, an essentially unbeatable warrior of even-temper and true wisdom. He is also related to Unn. 20 - This chapter introduces Njal, a beardless man well-off in property with an incredible knowledge of the law. He is considered the best counsellor in Iceland. His wife, Berg... | [
"19. GUNNAR COMES INTO THE STORY",
"There was a man whose name was Gunnar. He was one of Unna's kinsmen, and his mother's name was Rannveig (1). Gunnar's father was named Hamond (2). Gunnar Hamond's son dwelt at Lithend, in the Fleetlithe. He was a tall man in growth, and a strong man -- best skilled in arms of a... |
4,074 | 597_chapters_35-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 35 - Gunnar comes to Njal's house for a winter feast, and their wives have a large feud. Bergthora, Njal's wife, tells Hallgerd to move off the cross-bench. Hallgerd defends herself by casting aspersions on Bergthora: she has gnarled nails and her husband is beardless. Bergthora concedes to these accusations, but says ... | [
"35. THE VISIT TO BERGTHORSKNOLL",
"Now it was the custom between Gunnar and Njal, that each made the\nother a feast, winter and winter about, for friendship's sake;\nand it was Gunnar's turn to go to feast at Njal's. So Gunnar and\nHallgerda set off for Bergthorsknoll, and when they got there\nHelgi and his wif... |
4,075 | 597_chapters_46-81 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 46 - Gizur the White, a great chieftan, and Geir the Godi support each other in all matters. Mord Valgardsson's father is abroad and his mother, Unn, has passed away. As was foreshadowed, Mord will take action against Gunnar. 47 - A man named Otkel is well-off for property and has a son named Thorgeir who is young but ... | [
"46. OF GIZUR THE WHITE AND GEIR THE PRIEST",
"There was a man named Gizur the White; he was Teit's son;\nKettlebjorn the Old's son, of Mossfell. (1) Bishop Isleif was\nGizur's son. Gizur the White kept house at Mossfell, and was a\ngreat chief. That man is also named in this story whose name was\nGeir the Pri... |
4,076 | 597_chapters_82-94 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 82 - Thrain heads to Norway and is summoned by the king, Earl Hakon. Thrain says he is a close kinsman of Gunnar, and the earl lets him live there for the winter. A viking named Kol sets up an attack on Hallvard; though he surrenders, they set his hall on fire anyway, killing him in the worst imaginable way. The earl p... | [
"82. NJAL'S SONS SAIL ABROAD",
"Now it must be told how Njal's sons, Grim and Helgi, left Iceland\nthe same summer that Thrain and his fellows went away; and in the\nship with them were Olaf Kettle's son of Elda, and Bard the\nBlack. They got so strong a wind from the north that they were\ndriven south into the ... |
4,077 | 597_chapters_95-106 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 95 - This chapter introduces Flosi Thordarson, brother of Starkad, who is married to Steinvor, the daughter of Hall of Sida. 96 - This chapter introduces Hall of Sida, whose brother, Thorstein , had a son named Kol. This is the same Kol whom Kari killed in Wales. 97 - Njal wants to have his foster-son Hoskuld marry Sta... | [
"95. OF HALL OF THE SIDE",
"Hall was the name of a man who was called Hall of the Side. He\nwas the son of Thorstein Baudvar's son (1). Hall had to wife\nJoreida, daughter of Thidrandi (2) the Wise. Thorstein was the\nname of Hall's brother, and he was nick-named Broad-paunch. His\nson was Kol, whom Kari slay... |
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