In Paris during the Reign of Terror, the republican Paul Kauvar is secretly married to Diane, daughter of an aristocrat condemned by the revolutionary tribunal. Plots, false papers and the shadow of the guillotine test his loyalty to his wife and his cause, as Robespierre’s fall approaches. Montrose J. Moses introduces MacKaye and the play’s sociological purpose.
A landmark of nineteenth-century American stage melodrama by one of its great showmen. Download the free EPUB.