On another very overcast day of relentless steady rain I stayed indoors and scanned the illustrations to
Here is the front board and the title page. This book does not carry a date, but I think it would have been published in about 1912.
Here we have the frontispiece and the illustration to the PROLOGUE. Each coloured plate throughout the book is protected by clean, undamaged, tissue.
A black and white drawing opens each of the five acts.
The plates for Act I;
for Act II;
Act III;
Act IV;
and Act V.
Further descriptions of each picture are featured in the galleries. I know that some readers have been having difficulty scrolling through these, but for Jackie at least these were miraculously resolved this morning.
It would seem superfluous for me to add a review of the widely known and much analysed work of our greatest playwright.
This evening we all dined on piri-piri or lemon chicken according to taste; creamy mashed white and sweet potato; fried onions; and tender green beans, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I drank more of the Nero d’Avola.