The Plays of Georg Buchner
Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop
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The opening
LEONCE AND LENA
A COMEDY
‘© Alfieri Gozzi
E la fama? E la fame? ”
KING PETER, of the Kingdom of Popo PRINCE LEONCE, his son, betrothed to PRINCESS LENA VALERIO THE DUENNA THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES and PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL THE COURT CHAPLAIN THE SCHOOLMASTER ROSETTA FIRST VALET SECOND VALET THE SHERIFF Servants, Policemen, Courtiers, Peasants, etc.
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About this edition
- The words
- Geoffrey Dunlop's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 11 places
- Back pages of the scan: the library's catalogue card ("830 167334 B Biichner, Georg") and scan noise (19 blocks)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 27 places
- Closing line of an act ("End of Act I.") (3 blocks)
- Scan noise before a stage direction ("aS (CHILD shrinks away.)")
- Printed ornaments and dividers
- Notes about a stage production, in 5 places
- The act's number repeated above a later scene's number (the act is the chapter's part and opens its first scene)