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Woodcock's Little Game: A Comedy-Farce, In Two Acts

Chapter 1: Characters.
By John Maddison Morton
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A comic two-act farce centers on a newly married man whose transition from rakish bachelor to domestic gentleman provokes bemused commentary from servants and relatives. Early scenes stage a country wedding and the husband’s humorous anticipation of comfortable domestic routines, alongside domestic preparations and lively stage business. Subsequent scenes escalate through social visits, schemes, and misunderstandings among friends and family, producing physical comedy and rapid repartee. The play unfolds as tightly plotted acts designed for theatre, skewering small-town manners and social pretension while showcasing brisk timing and situational humor.

WOODCOCK’S LITTLE GAME

Characters

Act I.

Act II.

Transcriber’s Note

WOODCOCK’S LITTLE GAME:

A Comedy-Farce,

IN TWO ACTS.

BY

JOHN MADDISON MORTON,
(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),

AUTHOR OF

Lend me Five Shillings, Three Cuckoos, Catch a Weazel, Where there’s a Will there’s a Way, John Dobbs, A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion, Going to the Derby, Your Life’s in Danger, Midnight Watch, Box and Cox, Trumpeter’s Wedding, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Old Honesty, Young England, King and I, My Wife’s Second Floor, Who do they take me for? The Thumping Legacy, Milliners’ Holiday, Wedding Breakfast, Irish Tiger, Attic Story, Who’s the Composer? Who’s my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Prince for an Hour, Away with Melancholy, Waiting for an Omnibus, Betsy Baker, Who Stole the Pocket-Book? Two Bonnycastles, From Village to Court, Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw, Rights and Wrongs of Women, Sent to the Tower, Our Wife, Brother Ben, Take Care of Dowb—, Wooing One’s Wife, Margery Daw, The Double-Bedded Room, the “Alabama,” Drawing Rooms, Second Floors, and Attics, &c. &c.

LONDON:  
SAMUEL FRENCH,  
PUBLISHER,  
89, STRAND.  		   NEW YORK:
  SAMUEL FRENCH & SON,
  PUBLISHERS,
  38, EAST 14TH STREET.

WOODCOCK’S LITTLE GAME.

First performed at the Royal St. James Theatre
(Under the management of Mr. Benjamin Webster)
On Thursday, 6th October, 1864.

Characters.

MR. WOODCOCK Mr. CHARLES MATTHEWS.
MR. CHRISTOPHER LARKINGS Mr. H. J. MONTAGUE.
MR. ADOLPHUS SWANSDOWN Mr. J. JOHNSTONE.
DAVID Mr. W. CHAMBERLAINE.
MRS. COLONEL CARVER Mrs. FRANK MATTHEWS.
MRS. WOODCOCK Miss FANNY HUGHES.
MRS. LARKINGS Miss WENTWORTH.

MODERN COSTUMES.

Time in Performance—One Hour.