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"Wanted, a Young Lady" : A Farce, in One Act

Chapter 4: Transcriber’s Note
By William E. Suter
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About This Book

A one-act farce centers on a young man who arrives at an isolated country house and assumes his brother's identity to win favor from elderly relatives and access to money. His deception collides with a bumbling servant, a house advertisement seeking a young woman to read to the aged couple, and the arrival of an actual applicant, prompting comic misunderstandings, cross-dressing disguises, and shifting identities among the characters. Rapid physical comedy and mistaken identity drive the brief action, with humor drawn from social pretensions, misdirected letters, and the contrast between appearances and intentions.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images digitized from a microform copy made available by the University of California, Davis. These images have been posted on the Internet Archive at:

archive.org/details/SuterWantedYoungLady

Because of the quality of the images, this transcription was compared with the text posted by the Victorian Plays Project at:

victorian.nuigalway.ie

In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text, including variant spellings such as “atchieu,” “doat,” and “shewn.”

The following changes were made:

  • p. 3: Deleted “[Mr. Lacy’s List.]” at the top of the page. This appears to be a typesetting error.
  • p. 3: SCENE.—Interior of an old Country Mansion; door, C; door, R;—For consistency, added a period after “C” and “R”.
  • p. 8: FRANK. (to ADELAIDE) He says his wife will be back direcctly.—Changed “direcctly” to “directly”.
  • p. 12: FRANK. Nor I. (filling glasses) but a glass of wine—Capitalized “but” after the parenthesis.
  • p. 12: my poor husband has got the rheumatism. (filling his pipe) but if you object—Capitalized “but” after the parenthesis.
  • p. 13: (runs off, door, R.—shaking at, door, L., continues)—Deleted comma after “at”.
  • p. 14: FRANK. (R. C ) Well, the fact is—Inserted a period between “C” and the closing parenthesis.