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Vandyke Brown: A Farce in One Act

Chapter 2: Transcriber’s Note
By Adolphus Charles Troughton
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A single-hour farce set in a cramped lodging, where domestic jealousy, social pretension, and bungled romantic advances generate a string of comic misunderstandings. A retired tradesman and his suspicious wife quarrel over servants and supposed improprieties while a forward suitor and a scatterbrained law student fumble with secret letters. A photographic artist and a woman living under an assumed name add further complications. Rapid entrances and exits, servants’ interventions, and mistaken identities escalate the chaos, culminating in a brisk, humorous denouement that untangles the confusions.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images digitized by Google from a copy made available by Harvard University and posted by the Hathi Trust Digital Library at:

catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011612920

In addition, it was checked against the text posted by the Victorian Plays Project at:

http://victorian.nuigalway.ie

In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text. Thus, variant spellings such as “musn’t,” “doat,” “ecstacies,” and “illnatured” have been retained. Some minor inconsistencies and errors have been corrected as follows:

  • p. 2: COSTUMES.—The pres—Based on the text available through the Victorian Plays Project, changed the costume note to “COSTUMES.—The present day.”
  • p. 4: if you could’nt manage to—Changed “could’nt” to “couldn’t”.
  • p. 5: I’m sure I dont want to stay—Changed “dont” to “don’t”.
  • p. 5: we have been married scarcely three years. and this—Changed the period after “years” to a comma.
  • p. 6: AUGUS The little cherub!—Added a period after “AUGUS”.
  • p. 9: MRS BROWN. So, sir, I perceive you are—Inserted a period after “MRS”.
  • p. 10: I have the honour to wish you a good morning, Mrs Duval.—Added a period after “Mrs” for consistency.
  • p. 13: Why, he must have followed me home—Added a period to the end of the sentence.
  • p. 16: He had’nt been five minutes in the house—Changed “had’nt” to “hadn’t”.
  • p. 16: (they sit, BOBBINS R., VANDKYE BROWN L.—Changed “VANDKYE” to “VANDYKE”.
  • p. 20: There’s somebody here! (down. R.)—Changed the period after “down” to a comma.
  • p. 22: FAST. (L) What’s that to you?—Inserted a period after “L”.
  • p. 25: Deleted the line before the tableau direction for consistency.