Transcribed from the 1887 Office of "The Commonweal" edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE TABLES TURNED; or, Nupkins Awakened [Title page: title.jpg] A Socialist Interlude BY WILLIAM MORRIS AUTHOR OF 'THE EARTHLY PARADISE.' _As for the first time played at the Hall of the Socialist League on Saturday October 15, 1887_ LONDON: OFFICE OF "THE COMMONWEAL" 13 FARRINGDON ROAD, E.C. 1887 _All Rights Reserved_. ORIGINAL CAST. _DRAMATIS PERSONAE--PART I_. Mr. La-di-da (_found guilty of swindling_) . . . H. BARTLETT. Mr. Justice Nupkins . . . W. BLUNDELL. Mr. Hungary, Q.C. (_Counsel for the Prosecution_) . . . W. H. UTLEY. Sergeant Sticktoit (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . JAMES ALLMAN. Constable Potlegoff (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . H. B. TARLETON. Constable Strongithoath (_Witness for Prosecution_) . . . J. FLOCKTON. Mary Pinch (_a labourer's wife, accused of theft_) . . . MAY MORRIS. Foreman of Jury . . . T. CANTWELL. Jack Freeman (_a Socialist, accused of conspiracy, sedition, and obstruction of the highway_) . . . H. H. SPARLING. Archbishop of Canterbury (_Witness for Defence_) . . . W. MORRIS. Lord Tennyson (_Witness for Defence_) . . . A. BROOKES. Professor Tyndall (_Witness for Defence_) . . . H. BARTLETT. William Joyce (_a Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER. Usher . . . J. LANE. Clerk of the Court . . . J. TURNER. Jurymen, Interrupters, Revolutionists, etc., etc. * * * * * _DRAMATIS PERSONAE.--PART II_. Citizen Nupkins (_late Justice_) . . . W. BLUNDELL, Mary Pinch . . . MAY MORRIS. William Joyce (_late Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER. Jack Freeman . . . H. H. SPARLING. 1st Neighbour . . . H. B. TARLETON. 2nd Neighbour . . . J. LANE. 3rd Neighbour . . . H. GRAHAM. Robert Pinch, and other Neighbours, Men and Women. PART I. SCENE.--_A Court of Justice_. USHER, CLERK OF THE COURT, MR. HUNGARY, Q.C., _and others_. MR. LA-DI- DA, _the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it_. [_Enter_ MR. JUSTICE NUPKINS. _Usher_. Silence!--silence!