Giles Corey, Yeoman

A Play

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Giles Corey, Yeoman, subtitled A Play, is credited to Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. The cast of characters lists, among others, Paul Bayley, Olive Corey's lover, Samuel Parris, minister in Salem Village, John Hathorne, magistrate, and Martha Corey, Giles Corey's wife. Act I, Scene I is set in Salem Village, in the living-room in Giles Corey's house, where Olive Corey is spinning and Nancy Fox, the old servant, sits in the fireplace paring apples.

A character named Ann says that she knows not what it was, something black that hustled quickly by her and raised a cold wind. Olive brings an embroidered muslin cape and puts it gently over Ann's shoulders, and Ann throws it off violently, crying take it away. A speaker says that if we believe in witches, we believe not only great wickedness, but great folly of the Lord God. Corwin tells Master Hathorne he doubts much if Giles Corey will speak, and that if he does not speak and is put to death, as is decreed, he doubts much if the temper of the people will stand more.

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American novelist, poet and children's writer. Her ghost stories have been anthologized often, and her collection "Young Lucretia and Other Stories" is among her titles. In 1925 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Author: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Pages: 49
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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