Notable Scene
One of the play's defining moments is the point when Garrick's feigned drunkenness appears to work, and Ada forces him to leave the party. Garrick makes an exit of high comedy, improving upon past insults to the other guests and quoting from Shakespeare's Coriolanus before destroying a window fixture with his exit:
ADA. If you do not leave, the servants shall turn you out.
GARRICK. And serve him right, too. (releases SMITH, and goes up C., a little. To INGOT, aside). Get me out of this, I can't bear it longer. (aloud) Put out old Coco. I am going. Good-bye, mother of seventy children.
MRS. SMITH. Oh!
GARRICK. Good-bye, Cold Muffins.
SMITH. Cold Muffins!
GARRICK. Farewell! (pathetically.) Farewell, and treasure deep that which I love the most yet leave behind. Farewell!
SMITH (follows GARRICK up C.) Jones, kick him out.
GARRICK (turns fiercely and SMITH runs down L. C., front). Kick!
"You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!
Let every feeble rumor shake your hearts,
Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes! (points to ARAMINTA'S shaking head and fan),
Fan you into despair!
Despising, for you, the City, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere." (snaps his fingers end lifts his foot as if in a contemptuous kick. Up to R. U. E., tears down curtain of R. U. E., so that it enwraps him like a mantle, and rushes off R.U.E)
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