Glossary

• Ghost light, pg 6: a small, single bulbed light, usually a floor lamp of some sort, that shines on the dark stage throughout the night when the theater is closed and unoccupied 

  • It is said that every theater has a ghost. The ghost light provides light at night for any spirits to be able to see and even “perform” or dance on the stage -On Stage Blog 

• The Old Man and the Sea, pg 9: by Ernest Hemingway, a novella that tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin

• Rondo, pg 10: a musical form with a principle theme, or refrain, in an alternating pattern with one or more contrasting themes.

• Kiefer Sutherland, pg 11: actor primarily known for his role as Jack Bauer in Fox drama series, 24, and President Tom Kirkman in ABC political drama series, Designated Survivor

  • starred in 1993 adaptation of The Three Musketeers as Athos

• Gascon, pg 13: someone from Gascony, a former province of France bordering Spain

• Swell, pg 16: a gentle increase, followed by a slight decrease

• Meung, pg 16: village in North France

• Cristal, pg 20: a brand of champagne

• pistoles, pg 28: french name given to a Spanish gold coin, a doubloon or double escudo, the gold unit

  • at the time, they were worth £0.75 or $1; they would be worth over £65,000, or $87,205

  • 40 pistoles would either be $1,304 (converting $40 in 1625 to 2021) or $3,488,200 (multiplying their value today by 40)

  • 100 pistoles would be roughly $3,264.70 or $8,720,500

• meadowlark, pg 31: eastern meadowlark call 

• Fleur-de-lis, pg 37: a heraldic charge, and the traditional coat of arms of France, translated to "Flower of the Lily" from French

• Thomas Heywood, pg 41: English playwright, actor, and author in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean era

• Brechtian (Brecht), pg 44: referring to the works of Bertolt Brecht; often used to refer to any theater that differs from tradition

• Fort La Rochelle, pg 47: Fort Louis was a Royal fort built just outside the walls of the Huguenot city in La Rochelle. The fort was a source of great tension between the Huguenots of La Rochelle and Louis XIII -Wikipedia 

  • The Huguenots were a religious group of French protestants 

• John Felton, pg 50: English army officer who assassinated George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

• decanter, pg 52: a vessel that is used to hold the decantation of a liquid which may contain sediment

• Lille, pg 53: city in North France

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