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Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre

Chapter 31: PERSONS AND PRESENCES
By Percy MacKaye
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A community masque reimagines Shakespearean figures to meditate on the theatre as a civilizing art that liberates imagination from brute force and ignorance. It stages symbolic encounters between a passionate, striving Caliban and primeval powers embodied by Setebos and Sycorax, while Prospero, Miranda, and Ariel represent guiding, artistic forces. Structured with a prologue, interludes, three acts and an epilogue, the piece blends choral ritual, visual tableaux, and practical staging material to promote communal performance and civic engagement.

PERSONS AND PRESENCES

OF THE TEN INNER SCENES

[Enacted by the Spirits of Ariel.]

  • FIRST INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Antony
  • Cleopatra
  • Charmian
  • Eros
  • PANTOMIME GROUPS
  • Roman Soldiers
  • Egyptian Populace
  • Flutists
  • Harpists
  • Wine Bearers
  •  
  • SECOND INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Cressida
  • Her Attendant
  • Pandarus
  • Boy
  • Troilus
  • MUTE PERSONS
  • Hecuba
  • Helen
  • Æneas
  • Antenor
  • Hector
  • Paris
  • Helenus
  • PANTOMIME GROUPS
  • Trojan Warriors
  • Trojan Populace
  •  
  • THIRD INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Brutus
  • Lucius, a boy
  • Ghost of Cæsar
  • MUTE PRESENCES
  • Shapes in the Darkness
  •  
  • FOURTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Saint Agnes [An Image]
  • A Shepherd [Impersonated by Prospero]
  • A Shepherd Boy [Impersonated by Ariel]
  • Other Shepherds
  •  
  • FIFTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Hamlet
  • Horatio
  • Marcellus
  • MUTE PERSONS
  • The Ghost of Hamlet’s Father
  •  
  • SIXTH INNER SCENE
  • [Derivative from Shakespeare]
  • PANTOMIME PERSONS AND GROUPS
  • King Henry the Eighth, of England
  • King Francis the First, of France
  • Their Soldiers and Followers
  •  
  • SEVENTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Benvolio
  • Mercutio
  • Romeo
  • Juliet
  • Lorenzo
  • Florizel
  • Perdita
  • MUTE PERSONS
  • Jessica
  •  
  • EIGHTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Orlando
  • Jacques
  • Duke
  • Adam
  • PANTOMIME GROUPS
  • Foresters of Arden
  •  
  • NINTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS
  • Sir Hugh Evans [as Fairy]
  • Sir John Falstaff
  • Mistress Ford
  • Mistress Page
  • Mistress Quickly [as Fairy]
  • Pistol [as Hobgoblin]
  • PANTOMIME GROUPS
  • Fairies [Counterfeited by Followers of Sir Hugh]
  •  
  • TENTH INNER SCENE
  • SPEAKING PERSONS AND GROUPS
  • King Henry the Fifth
  • His Soldiers and Followers