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ssss1So when John Smith “creates” the character of Yorick, he creates him in his own image—John Smith-Yorick; a great character, it may be, to those who see him thus for the first time, but lacking something to us who have lived with the other for months. For the other was plain Yorick—and only himself could play him. Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well, a fellow of most excellent fancy. Would that you could know him too! Well, you may find him in the printed page ... or you may not ... but here only, if anywhere, is he to be found.
A.A.M.
THE GREAT BROXOPP[1] FOUR CHAPTERS IN HIS LIFE
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CHARACTERS[2]
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Broxopp.
Nancy (his wife).
Jack (his son).
Sir Roger Tenterden.
Iris Tenterden.
Honoria Johns.
Ronald Derwent.
Norah Field.
Benham.
Mary.
Alice.
The Scene is laid in the Broxopp home of the period.
Twenty-four years pass between ActI. and ActII., eighteen months between ActII. and ActIII., and a year between ActIII. and ActIV.
The first performance of this play in London took place at the St.Martin’s Theatre on March6, 1923, with the following cast: