CUMBERLAND’S No. 30 MINOR THEATRE, Pr. 6d BEING A COMPANION TO dumbcrlanO's Britts!) Ctjeatrc. MTO^tWnyBMBtWKW JOAN OF ARC ; OR, THE MAID OF ORLEANS: A MELO-DRAMA, IS THREE ACTS, BY EDWARD FITZ-BALL, Esq. Author of The Pilot. The Floating Eeacon, &c. PRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPY With Remarks, Biographical £ Critical, By D—G. TO WHICH ARK ADDED, A Description of the Costume, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits, Relait\e Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the whole of the Stage Business, as now per¬ formed in the Mertropoeitan Minor Iheatres. Embellished with A Fine Wood ENGfeAvrNd, By Mr. BONNER, from A Drawing taken in the Theatre by Mr. R. CRUIKSHANK. ~ fiptokweare.] H. DAVIDSON, 19 PETER’S HILL, DOCTORS’ COMMONS, Between the South of St. Paul’s and Thames Street; ’ublisher of “ The Musical Treasury,” the popular Music for the Million, in Fhree- lenny Sheets, elegantly and correctly printed in Music Folio,.for the Pianoforte also of DAVIDSON'S DRAMATIC OPERAS, 6d. each, rranslations of Popular Foreign Operas adapted for Representation on the English Stage. LIST OF CUMBERLAND’S BRITISH THEATRE, The Price now reduced to Sixpence each Play. VOL. I. 56 Maid of the Mill 111 Inkle and Yarico 167 Lqve law&physJe 1 Romeo and Juliet VOL. IX 112 Education 168 Kienzi 2 She Stoops to Con- 57 Barber of Seville VOL. XVII. ^.?1ariT>- 3 Macbeth [quer 58 Isabella 113 Children in the hfs'* 4 Pizarro 59 Charles the Second 114 Rendezvous [wood 1?2 The citizen 5 Richard III. 60 The Fair Penitent 115 Barbar^ssa Tr^T „„ 6 Douglas 61 George Barnwell 116 Gambler’s Fate j VOL. XXV, 7 SuspiciousHusband 62 Fail of Algiers 117 Giovanni in Lond. 173 Grecian Daughter VOL. II. 63 Der Freischutz 118 School of Reform, 174 Charles XII. Is. 8 Othello VOL. X. 119 Lovers’ Vows 175 Teddy the Tiler 9 The Duenna 64 Fatal Dowry VOL. XVIII 176 Popping the Que®-< tion 10 The Rivals 65 Shepherd of Der¬ 120 Highland Reel 11 Belle’s Stratagem went Vale 121 Two Gentlemen of ?2Z Maid of Judah 12 Gymbeline 66 Father and Son VcrODH j^ 9 l ) 13 Venice Preserved 67 Wives as they were 122 Taming the Shrew! 14 West Indian 68 Lofty Projects 123 Secretsworthknow- ^ Honest 1 hie VOL. III. 69 Every Alan in his 124 Weathercock[ingls'1B1 151111(1 ti°y 15 Much Ado about Humour 125Somnambulisx[welp VOL. XXVI 16 Hypocrite [nothing 70 Two Galley Slaves 126 All’s well that ends 182 Notoriety 17 As You Like it VOL. XI. VOL. XIX. 183 Alatrimony 18 Provoked Husband 71 Brutus 127 Artaxerxes 184 Husband at SiglHj 10 Beggars’ Opera 72 Ali Pacha 128 The Serf, Is. 185 First of April £f) Way to Keep Him 73 Twelfth Night 129 The Lancers 186 John of Paris 21 The Padlock 74 Henry the Fifth 130 Love for Love 187 Aliller& his men 188 Prisoner at Larg* VOL. IV. 75 Love in humble life 131 The Alerchant’s Wedding, Is. 189 Timon of Athens1 22 King John 76 Child of Nature 190 The Prize 77 Sleep Walker 132 Race for a Dinner S3 Henry IV. Part I. 133 Raising the Wind 24 The Wonder VOL. XII. VOL. XXVII. VOL. XX. 25 Hamlet 78 Orestes in Argos 191 Henry IV. partl 26 Trip to Scarborough 79 Hide and Seek 134 Siege of Belgrade 192 Forty Thieves 27 Road to Ruin 80 Tribal.t,on 135 Who wants a Gui- 193 Aly Grandmotbe* 28 The Gamester 81 Rival VaUts 136 PoorSoldier[neals 194 The Vampire VOL. V. 82 Roses and j corns 137 Alidsummer nights 195 The Farmer Dream [ried, Is 196 Ella Rosenberg *9 Winter’s Tale 83 Midas [a W.fe 84 Rule a Wife&hare 138 Way to get mar 197 1 he Two Friend® 30 Man of the World 139 Turnpike Gate 198 Valentine & Orso SI The Inconstant VOL. XI11.[wife 140 Paul and Virginia 199 Folly as it Flies 32 Love in a Village 85 A Bold Stroke fora VOL. XXI. VOL. XXVIII 53 Jane Shore 86 Good-natured Alan SI King Henry VIII 87 Oberon 141 The Cabinet, Is. 200 The Robber’sWifl 142 Youthful Queen 35 Julius Caesar 88 Lord of the Alanor 201 AlagpieortheMai 143Green-eyedmonster VOL. VI. 89 Honey-AIoon 202 Shalcspeare’sEarl. 144 Country Girl Days 36 Merchant of Venice 90 DoctorBolus[Stairs 145. Irish Tutor 91 High Life Below 203 Point of Honour *7 Merry Wives of 146 Beaux’ Stratagem 204 High w ays & By Windsor VOL XIV. 147 The Will, Is. 205 Ice Witcn [way SI Virginius 92 Disagreeable Sur- VOL. XXII. 206 St.'Patrick’s Dar 4<i Caius Gracchus 03 Stranger [prise 207 Blind Bargain *1 A11 in the Wrong 148 Irishman inLondon 94 Village Lawyer 206 Robinson Cruso* 41 King Lear 95 School for Scandal 149 Recruiting Officer 42 Cato 06 Spoiled Child 150 The Slave, Is VOL. XXIX. 151 Devil’s Elixir VOL. VII. Vf Animal Alagnetism 209 Maid of Honour 98 Wheel of Fortune 152 “ Alaster’s Rival” 210 Sleeping Draugl 43 New Way to Pay 153 The Duel VOL. XV. 211 Timour the Tart; Old Debts [sure 154 William Tell, Is. 212 Modern Antique 44 Measure for Mea- 99 The Critic VOL. XX11I. 213 King Richard II 45 Jealous Wife 100 Deaf and Dumb 214 Airs. Wiggins [in 46 Tempest [age 155 Tom'Thumb [Life 101 Castle Spectre 156 Happiestday of mv 215 Comfortable Lod 47 Clandestine Marri- 102 The Revenge 157 Fatality [can, Is. 216 The Exile [din 48 Coriolanus [Fault 103 Alidnight Hour 158 Laugh when you 217 Day after the We 40 livery One has his 104 Speed theP lough 159 William Thomson 218 Adopted Child VOL. VIII. 105 liosina 166 IllustriousStranger VOL. XXX. 161 Soldier's Daughter 40 The Alcaid VOL. XVI. 219 The Bride of Lu 51 Busy Body 162 The Waterman 106 Monsieur Tonson 163 Town & Country 220 Tekeli [gate 52 Tale of Mystery 107 Comedy of Errors 221 Old and \oung 43 Know your Own I OSSpectre Bridegroom VOL. XXIV. 222 Bee-Hive ® Mind 164 No Song no Supper 109 A Cure for the 223 Hartford. Bridge—_• 54 Mayor of Garratt Heart-ache 165 Lock and Key 224 1 wo stringsstrinti<i to yo» 45 Awomanuever vext HO Amateurs&Actors 166 Snakes in the grass 225 IlauntedInn[Bo R. Cruihshan'k, Del. G. rr% So„n£Tj Sc> # oait of 8rc. Joan.. Behold ! proud and vindictive lor ds, how tanquilly I come to die Act III. Scene 5 JOAN OF ARC ; OR, THE MAID OF ORLEANS: A MELO-DRAMA, In fttiree 8rts, BY EDWARD FITZ-BALL, ESQ., Author of The Fortunes of Nigil, The Pilot, The Floating Beacon, The Devil's Elixir, The Flying Dutchman, Inchape Bell, The Innkeeper of Abbeville, Qc. THE MUSIC BY MR. NICHOLSON. PRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPY, WITH REMARKS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY D.-G. To which are added, A DESCRIPTION OK THE COSTUME,—CAST OK T HH CHARACTERS, ENTRANCES AND EXITS, —RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, ANI) THE WHOLE OK THE STAGE BUSINESS, As performed at the . METROPOLITAN THEATRES. EMBELLISHED WITH A FINE ENGRAVING, By Mr. Bonner, from a Drawing taken in the Theatre, by Mr. R. Cruikshank. LONDON: G. H. DAVIDSON, PETER’S HILL, DOCTORS’ COMMONS BETWEEN 6T PAUL’S AND UPPER THAMES STREET. THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK LIBRARY The Gift of Mrs Q• H*U C Xj , / REMARKS. $oatt of 8rc. The Maid of Orleans was the glory and shame of the age in which she lived—her heroic deeds and miserable end fill one bright and bloody page in history ; which, with all its boasted dignity, is but a record of the in¬ justice, superstitions, and cruelties of mankind :—one potentate succeeds another,— “ Not to be worst, Stands in some rank of praise.” One form of government, one code of laws, are adopted or abrogated, as the strongest party prevail. The wisdom of our ancestors, like the buttons on Ben Jonson’s effigy— (“ Another age shall set thy buttons right”) which we reject as old saws, posterity shall reinstate with honour due j and our modern instances, “ Which are the children of an idle brain. Begot of nothing but vain phantasy,” shall be laid aside with that contempt which antiquity, in the present day, receives from those “who all but new things disdain.” Among the many atrocities that history records, there is none of greater barbarity, cowardice, and dishonour, than the fate of Joan of Arc ; the deep disgrace of which belongs to that wily and able politician, the Regent Bedford. In the village of Domremi, near Vaucouleurs, on the borders of Lorraine, there lived a country girl of twenty- seven years of age, called Joan d’ Arc, who was ser¬ vant in a small inn, and who, in that station, had been accustomed to tend the horses of the guests, to ride them without a saddle to the watering-place, and to perform other offices, which, in well-frequented inns, commonly fall to the share of the men-servants. This girl was of an irreproachable life, and had not hitherto been re¬ marked for any singularity ; whether that she had met with no occasion to excite her genius, or that the un- a 3 6 REMARKS. skilful eyes of those who conversed with her had not been able to discern her uncommon merit. The seige of Orleans, the progress of the English before that place, the great distress of the garrison and inhabitants, the importance of saving the city and its brave defenders, had turned thither the public eye ; and Joan, inflamed by the general sentiment, was seized with the wild desire of bringing relief to her sovereign in his present distress.