New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-23


XIV Adultery. The husband or wife be-
trayed, the adulterer the accomplice. (Anybody
who cares to do so can try to see how many
subdivisions Of this situation he can find. NJ
Polti finds twenty-one No one who goes to the
theatre frequently need be at loss for ex-
amplesl
XVI Crimes of love. The enamoured the
person loved. This also is a subject which may
be briefly dismissed. NJ Polti subdvdes with
his usual scientific minuteness a few examples
are Shelley's The Cenci," Racne's "Phedre"
and Schler's Don Carlos"l
XVII. To learn the dlshonor of one who Is
loved. The one who learns, the guilty one. Al.
To discover the shame of ones mother Au-
gier's Mime. Caverlet," Sardous "Odette." 2.
TO discover the shame Of ones father. 3 To
discover the dishonor Of ones daughter. Bf.
To discover a dishonOr in the family of ones
iancee. 2 To learn that ones wife was dis
honored before marriage. g. That she has for
merly committed a fault. CT. To discover that
ones son is an assassin. Byrons Werner"
d. M. Poltf remarks that this subdivision might
stand as situation by itself being a middle
ground between XIII and xviii /. To have
to punish ones son a traitor to the country.
VOtaire's "Brutus." 2. To have to punish son
condemned by law which the father enacted
for all. g. To have to punish a son believed to
De guilty. a. To have to strike. according to
oath, against a tyrant, ones father, hitherto
unknown. 3. To have to punish a son as an
assassin.
xviii Loves obstructed. First lover, sec
Ond lover the obstacle. A |. Marriage prevent
ed by inequality of ranks. 3 Marriage prevent
ed by inequality of fortunes. b. Marriage pre-
vented BY enemies and by obstacles of circum-
stance. c. Marriage prevented by the woman
being destined for another. d. Loves in a
household prevented by step-parents. f. Loves
o.. Here NJ Polti makes four dots and
gives it up The table maker is foiled at last,
and for three pages he becomes rhapsodical
and scornful 1t would take the Superintendent
of the United States Census to subdvde this
situation, and he would not care to do ID every
ten years. 1t is safe to say that four-ffths Of
all the plays that are ever seen in this country
involve this situation Some managers refuse
on principle to accept any play which does not
have this situation in it
XXIX. To love enemy. The enemy who is
loved the one who loves him, the one who hates
him. A. The loved one is hated by the knsmen
OF the one who loves him. l. The loved one is
pursued by the brothers of her who loves him.
Websters THE Duchess Of Amalf." 2 He is
hated by the family of her who loves him. s.
The loved one Is the son Of man hated by the
kinsm. OF her who loves him. 4. The loved one
is the enemy of the party of her who loves him.
Erckmann- Chatran's Mime. Therese." B i.
The loved one is the murderer of her who loves
him. "The Cid" . The woman who is loved is
the murderer Of the father Of the man who loves
her Mile. de Bressier." g. The loved one is
the murderer of the brother of him who loves
her 4 The loved one is the murderer Of the
husband of her who loves him, but who already
has sworn to avenge this husband. Votalres
Irene" . The same case, except that 1T con-
Germs a lover instead of husband Sardous
Fedora" 6. The loved one is the murderer OF a
kinsman of her who loves him. Romeo and
Juliet" Z. The loved one Is the daughter OF the
murderer of the father of him who loves her.
I 1t will be noted by any one who wishes to de-
stroy the cabalistic number thrtysix that the
whole Of this situation might be made without
much forcing, to appear as subdivisions or
XXVIILl
XXX Ambition. The ambitious person, that
which he covets, the adversary. A. Ambition
watched by knsman or a patriot friend. l.
BY a brother. >. BY a kinsman or per-
son under obligations Shakespeare's Julius
Cesar" 3. BY partisans. Schiller's "Wallen-
stein" and Hugos Cromwell" b. seditious
ambition Ford's "Perkin Warbeck." The in
of Cade, in the second part of Henry
"" c. Ambition the eagerness of which heaps
nm crimes Macbeth" King Richard Ill"
XXXI Struggle against God Al. Struggle
against "a god. Jacobs dream. =. Struggle
against those who are faithful to a god. Ra-
mil god