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Title: The Tables Turned
or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude

Author: William Morris

Release Date: October 18, 2005 [eBook #16897]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1887 Office of "The Commonweal" edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

THE TABLES TURNED;
or,
Nupkins Awakened

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A Socialist Interlude
BY
WILLIAM MORRIS
AUTHOR OF 'THE EARTHLY PARADISE.'

_As for the first time played at the Hall of the Socialist League on
Saturday October 15, 1887_

LONDON:
OFFICE OF "THE COMMONWEAL"
13 FARRINGDON ROAD, E.C.
1887

_All Rights Reserved_.

ORIGINAL CAST.

_DRAMATIS PERSONAE--PART I_.

Mr. La-di-da (_found guilty of swindling_) . . . H. BARTLETT.

Mr. Justice Nupkins . . . W. BLUNDELL.

Mr. Hungary, Q.C. (_Counsel for the Prosecution_) . . . W. H. UTLEY.

Sergeant Sticktoit (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . JAMES ALLMAN.

Constable Potlegoff (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . H. B. TARLETON.

Constable Strongithoath (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . J. FLOCKTON.

Mary Pinch (_a labourer's wife, accused of theft_) . . . MAY MORRIS.

Foreman of Jury . . . T. CANTWELL.

Jack Freeman (_a Socialist, accused of conspiracy, sedition, and
obstruction of the highway_) . . . H. H. SPARLING.

Archbishop of Canterbury (_Witness for Defence_) . . . W. MORRIS.

Lord Tennyson (_Witness for Defence_) . . . A. BROOKES.

Professor Tyndall (_Witness for Defence_) . . . H. BARTLETT.

William Joyce (_a Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER.

Usher . . . J. LANE.

Clerk of the Court . . . J. TURNER.

Jurymen, Interrupters, Revolutionists, etc., etc.

* * * * *

_DRAMATIS PERSONAE.--PART II_.

Citizen Nupkins (_late Justice_) . . . W. BLUNDELL,

Mary Pinch . . . MAY MORRIS.

William Joyce (_late Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER.

Jack Freeman . . . H. H. SPARLING.

1st Neighbour . . . H. B. TARLETON.

2nd Neighbour . . . J. LANE.

3rd Neighbour . .