Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: Page Scan Source: http://www.archive.org/details/johnbaptistplay00suderich JOHN THE BAPTIST JOHN THE BAPTIST A PLAY BY HERMANN SUDERMANN TRANSLATED BY BEATRICE MARSHALL LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD VIGO STREET W. NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH PERSONS IN THE PLAY Herod Antipas. _Tetrarch of Galilee_. Herodias. Salome. _Her daughter_. Vitellius. _Legate of Syria_. Marcellus. _His companion_. Merokles, _the rhetorician_. \ Gabalos, _the Syrian_. > _At the Court of Herod_. Jabad, _the Levite_. / John. _Called "The Baptist."_ Josaphat. \ Matthias. } > _His disciples_. Amarja. | Manassa. / Jael. _Josaphat's wife_. Their two Children. Hadidja. _Maid in the Palace_. Miriam. \ Abi. > _Playfellows of Salome_. Maecha. / Mesulemeth. _A beggar-woman_. Amasai. \ > _Pharisees_. Jorab. / Eliakim. \ Pasur. > _Citizens of Jerusalem_. Hachmoni. / Simon. _The Galilean_. First Galilean. Second Galilean. A Paralytic. First Priest. Second Priest. A Citizen of Jerusalem. The Commander of the Roman Soldiers. First \ Second > Roman Soldier. Third / The Captain of the Palace Guard. The Gaoler. Men and Women from Jerusalem, Pilgrims, Roman Legionaries, Men and Maidservants in the Palace. Time of Action. _The Year 29 after Christ_. Scene of Action. _During the Prelude a rocky wilderness near Jerusalem_. In the First, Second, and Third Acts. _Jerusalem_. In the Fourth and Fifth Acts. _A town of Galilee_. PRELUDE PRELUDE _Wild, rocky scenery in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.... Night--The moon shining dimly through jagged clouds.... In the distance is seen the fire of the great sacrificial altar, burning on the horizon._ SCENE I