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AS PERFORMED AT BURTON’S THEATRE,\n DECEMBER, 1857\n\n NEW YORK: SAMUEL FRENCH, 122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs.) \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n Order in which the States are arranged\n \n \n Section 1st\n 1 New York\n 2 Pennsylvanie\n 3 Massachusetts\n 4 New Jersey\n 5 Main\n 6 New Hampshire\n 7 Vermont\n 8 Connecticut\n 9 Calafornia\n 10 Maryland\n 11 Deleware\n 12 Rhode Island\n \n \n Secon 2nd\n 1 Ohio\n 2 Indiana\n 3 Illinois\n 4 Michigan\n 5 Wisconsin\n 6 West Virginia\n 7 Oregon\n 8 Iowa\n 9 Kansas\n 10 Nevada\n 11 Minnesota\n 12 Missuri\n \n \n \n Section 3rd\n 1 South Carolina\n 2 Mississippi\n 3 North Carolina\n 4 Virginia\n 5 Texas\n 6 Kentucky\n 7 Tennessee\n 8 Alabama\n 9 Arkansas\n 10 Florida\n 11 Georgia\n 12 Louisiana\n \n \n 1 & 3 Sections State from R\n 2 \" \" \" L\n \n \n \n\n \n \n DISTRIBUTION OF CHARACTERS, GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. \n\n \n \n FERDINAND, \n King of Arragon\n —an aggressivearrogant progressive monarch,\n of rather a speculative turn, with a good many irons on the fire, besides\n an eye on Castile,\n \n Mr. Mark Smith.\n \n\n \n JUAN RODERIGUESCardinal DE FONSECA, \n Archdeacon of Seville, keeper of the\n king’s conscience, [a handsome sinecure,] and court spiritual adviser\n generally, therefore, naturally opposed to Columbus and the spread of knowledge, \n Mr. Holman.\n \n\n \n FERNANDO DE TALAVERA,\n an old picture, very much improved by time, \n Mr. Barrett.\n \n\n \n LUIS DE ST. ANGEL, \n a contented office-holder pursuing the even tenor of his way, \n Mr. Alleyne.\n \n\n \n ALONZO DE QUINTANELLA, \n a courtier of much lower note, \n Mr. Gledhill.\n \n\n \n DON CHRISTOVAL COLON alias COLUMBUS, \n a clairvoyant voyager, whose filibustering expedition gave rise at\n the time to a world of speculation, \n Mr. Brougham.\n \n\n \n DIEGO, \n a semicolon among the king’sQueens pages, \n Miss Orten.\n \n \n\n \n \n Distinguished members of the Historical Society, now meeting together for the\n first time. \n \n VASCO NUNEZ, \n Mr. Hurley.\n \n \n HERNANDO CORTEZ, \n Mr. Atkins.\n \n \n AMERIGO VESPUCCI, \n Mr. Paul.\n \n \n PONCE DE LEON, \n Mr. Lawson.\n \n \n \n\n \n A noisy crew of mutinous Seapoysmariners.\n \n SANCHO RUIS, \n Mr. McRae.\n \n \n PEDRO NINO, \n Mr. Bishop.\n \n \n BARTOLOMEO, \n Mr. Hayes.\n \n \n JUAN PEREZ, \n Mr. Bruce.\n \n &c., &c.\n \n\n \n \n ISABELLA, \n wife of Ferdinand, possessor of half-a-crown by marriage rite, and a whole\n one by right of having to carry its weight on her own shoulders, \n Mrs. Holman.\n \n\n \n COLUMBIA, \n a national debutante, her first appearance on any stage, \n Mrs. L. W. Davenport.\n \n\n \n LITTLE MISS KANSAS,Colorado,\n a discordant elementrather precocious, \n Miss Taylor.\n \n\n \n \n Demon of Discord, a particular secessolitionist\n \n\n \n Manhatta\n \n\n \n Massachutia\n \n\n \n Keystonia\n \n\n \n\n \n Members of the Reception Committee, Aldermen, Discontented Politicians,\n Independent Voters, and other natural curiosities by \n Competent Representatives.\n \n\n \n Full-grown States, Juvenile Territories, &c., by \n an Energetic Host of Auxiliaries.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Properties\n \n \n Act 1 Scene 1\n Sceptre for King - 4 Gold and Silver wands for Pages. Pedlars Tray &\n strap to go round neck on which are Trinkets maps & stationery for\n Columbus. Box with papers of candy imitation cigars & pop corn for Diego\n (cover to Box with hinges) Twelve Bed candlesticks for characetrs. Throne\n covered & 2 State Chairs on.\n \n \n Scene 2nd\n Goblet of whiskey punch, piece of lemon & spoon and chair ready L1.E, for\n Columbus. Night Cap & gown R.1.E. ready R1E for King. Silk American Flag\n on Staff for Columbia\n \n \n Scene 3\n Two Boat hooks on. Chinese lanterns –\n Transparencies,\n \"Columbus for Mayor”\n “Sound on the Goose”\n “Columbus for Alderman”\n “Columbus for Governor”\n “Columbus for President”\n “Columbus for Everything”\n “Try Columbus Hair Dye”\n “Columbus Shirt Collars”\n “Columbus neck ties”\n “Columbus pickles”\n – Large bundle of greens Large pot of pork & beans. 2 large pumpkin\n pies. 2 Rabbits ticked. Barrel, both heads\n marked “Solon Shingles.” Long address for\n Committee 4 yards long written on. Telescope. Swords for mutineers. 6 swords\n for sailors. Large hat for Citizen\n \n \n Act 2 Scene 1\n Long Telegraphic despatch for Diego.\n 2436 Shields 2436 Javlins 2436 Helmets\n for the States. Shield Javlin and Helmet for Colorado. Yellow fire in pans R & L 2.E. to end scene –\n Gong.\n \n \n Scene 2\n Toy Egg L1E on Salver readt for Diego.\n \n pencil drawing of a column with circle on top. Labeled\n 18.F.\n \n \n \n Scene 3rd\n Column with Globe for Columbus on platform back. Fire Box with red fire and\n slow match at footlights ready for tender to light at cue. Large Bible for\n Quaker, Piece of ^Red Cloth for Wm. Penn\n Black Sword and ^blk Belt & scroll\n written “Constitution” for Washington. Sword and Belt for Miles\n Standish. Two Laurel wreaths for\n Columbia.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n 2 Pages K Q 2 pages\n 8 Ladies 8 Lords\n 8 Lords Cardinal Fernando 8 Ladies\n \n \n King. Sceptre\n Queen.\n Cardinal.\n Fernando.\n 4 Pages. 4 Wands\n All the Courtiers.\n \n \n \n\nFeminine representation of the island of Manhattan, a\n stand-in for the City of New York.Feminine representation of the state of\n Massachusetts.Feminine representation of the state of Pennsylvania,\n also known as the Keystone State.\n Initialisms are used throughout the promptbook to indicate the nature of entrances and\n exits as well as scene and/or backdrop changes. Brougham’s Temptation, or,\n The Irish Emigrant: A Comic Drama in Two Acts (Samuel French\n 1856) provides this helpful gloss: \n L. means First Entrance, Left. R. First\n Entrance, Right. S.E.L. Second Entrance, Left. S.E.R.\n Second Entrance, Right. U.E.L. Upper\n Entrance, Left. U.E.R. Upper Entrance, Right. C. Centre. L.C. Left of Centre. R.C. Right of Centre. T.E.L. Third Entrance,\n Left. T.E.R. Third Entrance, Right. C.D. Centre Door. D.R. Door Right. D.L. Door Left. U.D.L. Upper Door, Left.\n U.D.R. Upper Door, Right. *** The Reader is supposed to be on\n the Stage, facing the Audience \n The Columbus Reconstructed promptbook uses similar initialisms but\n occasionally with the addition of numbers 1-3 or the letters H, N, or G. We believe the\n numbers indicate order (First, Second, Third), that H may refer to Hand (as in Right\n Hand First Entrance), and N to North. G likely denotes Groove, or a pulley system with\n different grooves in the floor that allowed upright painted scenes, known as flats, to\n change by sliding across the stage in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century\n productions. Overhead rigging largely replaced flats and grooves by the 1860s. \n A “Chinese lantern” seems to be a “magic lantern” or\n “phantasmagoria” technology, which involved the use of multiple painted slides mounted on a\n mobile light projector to create static, moving, growing, or shrinking images.\n (Terence Rees, Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas, London: The\n Society of Theatre Research, pp. 81-84). The list of lanterns and transparencies\n here and subsequent stage directions for both Act 1, scene 3, and Act 2, scene 2, indicate\n that productions of the Columbus burlesque applied a variety of contemporary\n image technologies.A transparency “consisted of a painting on a canvas or\n linen, lighted from behind” (Rees, Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas,\n p. 120). Also “sound on the goose question,” slang for a\n supporter of slavery, especially during the “Bleeding Kansas” conflicts of the 1850s, though\n in the subsequent decade, it evolved to mean politically conventional (Emmett Redd and\n Etcheson, Nicole, “‘Sound on the Goose’: A Search for the Answer to an Age Old\n ‘Question’,” Kansas History, vol. 32, no. 3, 2009, p. 206).The ubiquity of the Columbus icon extended to\n commercial products in the mid-nineteenth-century, as evidenced by this list.May refer to the rabbits being covered with small\n spots. OED Online, tick, v.1 3b.Solon Shingle was a bumbling, innocently obtrusive\n comic Yankee figure with a love for applesauce (a.k.a. “apple sass”) who first appeared in\n Joseph Stevens Jones’s drama The People’s Lawyer (1839). Shingle, as\n performed by George Handel Hill, was such a hit that Yankee performer John E. Owens adapted\n the play in 1864, titled it Solon Shingle, and performed the role with great\n success. One gets a sense of the character from lyrics on accompanying\n sheetmusic.An official message (a dispatch) sent via an\n electromagnetic telegraph machine. The technology was developed by Samuel F. B. Morse\n (1791-1872) in the 1830s and 1840s, and by the 1850s was a well-established way of sending\n information quickly across long distances.“Fire” was a fireworks-like lighting effect in the\n theater, created when metal powder (composition based on the desired color) was placed in a\n steel box and ignited (Rees, Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas, pp.\n 150-51).A prop egg resting on a tray stands ready for Diego to\n carry in for the final scene.British Quaker William Penn (1644-1718) founded the\n colony of Pennsylvania on the land of the Lenape Delaware and Iroquois peoples after\n receiving a charter from King Charles II in 1681.Myles Standish (1584?–1656) was an English soldier\n selected over John Smith to serve as the Pilgrims’ military leader when they immigrated to\n Plymouth colony in 1620. Instrumental in the military and political history of the colony,\n Standish became a popular icon in the nineteenth century through Henry Wadsworth\n Longfellow’s largely apocryphal The Courtship of Myles Standish\n (1858).","elements":["tei-front","tei-pb","tei-titlePage","tei-imprimatur","tei-hi","tei-lb","tei-docTitle","tei-titlePart","tei-add","tei-del","tei-byline","tei-docAuthor","tei-docEdition","tei-docImprint","tei-div","tei-addSpan","tei-stage","tei-l","tei-cb","tei-list","tei-head","tei-item","tei-anchor","tei-castList","tei-castGroup","tei-castItem","tei-role","tei-roleName","tei-roleDesc","tei-actor","tei-delSpan","tei-ptr","tei-p","tei-figure","tei-figDesc","tei-noteGrp","tei-note","tei-bibl","tei-ref","tei-title"]}}, "staticQueryHashes": ["1445148573","3797660754","3993924997"]}