Play on Words

full length · drama

The Daughter of Heaven

by Pierre Loti · translated by Ruth Helen Davis

32 roles (0M / 0F / 32 any) · approx 169–233 minutes · 1 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Empress lead 131 speeches
Emperor lead 95 speeches
Faithful Prince supporting 69 speeches
Fount supporting 48 speeches
Arrow-Bearer minor 21 speeches
Tartar General minor 20 speeches
Golden Lotus minor 16 speeches
Winged Prince minor 15 speeches
Tranquil Beauty minor 14 speeches
Pearl minor 12 speeches
Child minor 8 speeches
Fir-Sapling minor 7 speeches
All minor 7 speeches
Humpback minor 6 speeches
Cinnamon minor 6 speeches
Astrologer minor 6 speeches
The Child minor 6 speeches
Veiled-Light minor 5 speeches
Rock minor 4 speeches
Strong-Arm minor 4 speeches
Second Spy minor 4 speeches
The Grand Mistress minor 3 speeches
Poplar minor 3 speeches
Officer minor 3 speeches
First Spy minor 3 speeches
Wan-Tsi minor 3 speeches
Watchman minor 3 speeches
Second Woman minor 3 speeches
The Crowd minor 3 speeches
Third Officer minor 3 speeches
Fourth Officer minor 3 speeches
Second Tableau minor 2 speeches

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THE EMPRESS

[_Leaving the flower-garden, she halts before ascending the marble stair and turns again to the flowers._] Guard well, oh, flowers of the morning, the secret which I have confided to you. Now it has escaped from my soul! That it may never return, lock it up, oh, flowers, in your blossoms. [She mounts several steps] And you, ancestral shades, to whom I make this last prayer, Oh! lend your aid to your daughter, powerless to triumph over herself. Make my heart invulnerable, since you have called me to this sovereign mission. Give me the force to thrust aside all but my noble duty. Oh, help me to remember only "the brimming cup of which not a drop must be spilled!"

[_She mounts the stair._]

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