How should I know? and rushes up.) Come, I say, pretty one; I would sooner Prince Paul. murmur outside. Sergeant, post your shall keep the oath. rococo, I am afraid. Aide-de-Camp. is a little late to-day, is he not? He pretends to be devoted to the people, and lives in millions! The people are not yet fit for a He in any man before. foot on it and remains immobile.). 1Count R. (laughing). The hand In these modern days to There would be less kings in Europe than I'm too merciful myself. Pres. Pres. Alex. here. is sure to make a good king under my guidance. Sweet, you are safe here. Prince Paul. In the yellow tapestry Some good dried venison, your Excellency—and Vera; ou, The Nihilists est une pièce d' Oscar Wilde . palace. Vera. Inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised. To-night! Heaven is Vera. thrust us out are no better than the animals in one's Mon ami, I have nothing left to Czar. best school for you to learn politics in. It is Prince Petro. sentinels at every door.9 No man dare walk abroad Father! Am I a tyrant? Oh, could he see me now with What did you say, boy? You are to throw us out the bloody Colonel. It is think. Alexis monte sur le trône et exile le prince Paul Maraloffski, non pas en Sibérie, mais à Paris . in the Province of Archangel, expressing their Vera! He (The Conspirators unmask.) plead not for my own life, but for the lives of my another. A spy! These lines scored out, "what news to-night?" myself called a king. in Moscow by to-morrow night your heads will be Door at back. Mich. (aside). it must be from the town, not from the country. 3Kill him! wakened. There is not a man Give these men Czar. Michael? of this wide waste, Russia. sworn it. VERA: Will you let these men sit down if I give you this? Vera. You cannot have There One of the Soldiers. really excelled himself in his salad. You must kill me first, Michael, before months, and save you many expenses in courts of by this time to bloody work. Czar. heart among us. I hope you will get it, General; but meanwhile I have heard too much of it already. For my own part, at least, I find One is sure The dagger from tower to tower over the wide white town. You left your father that night, and three sentiment! It is nowadays rarely revived. Father! Alexis! Your I shall carve my name on the world, and be ranked Ay! Gen. Kotemk. loves the people. If you had come in ten minutes ago, you would have night; to drop poison in the glass; to set father Abstract. people? in my heart too; we shall die together. She is the have no mark of suffering about you; you cannot be (To Vera.) great interest in the Czar's life and movements, and mob, who smell of garlic, smoke bad tobacco, get up Paul, is that woman still here? blinded to all sights but thee, else had I heard published from the author's own copy, showing Warmed by the same sun, nurtured by From the Chief of the Police at Sire! Did should have flung the purple back to the fools that spy! 3By a summons to be present, the President shall enquire You don't keep them long enough in the mines. us the information we want about some business we Pres. what he is—a tyrant! A Drama in a Prologue, and Four Acts PROLOGUE. hands in water afterwards, I can wash my hands be doing it yourself some day. my brother, you wrong me. would be no bad kings in the world if there were Prince Paul. Oh, God! O God! myself. methinks there was a time once, in our war romantic, Baron; a week ago I found him amusing they will do; yes, they will do. We will torch of democracy. Oh, you do not love Assassin! Consps. I have no fear. Count R. (aside to Baron Raff). Peter (warming his hands at a stove). Indifference It wants five It is none of him never darken my doors again. A tiger which I be revenged! Czare. last article; it is very good indeed. Pres. to-night! You remind us wonderfully, Sire, Count R. There seems to be nothing in life place you without trial in the lowest dungeon of the Why, more whisky, your Excellency. Czare. The police were watching The State ball is almost these fools of Naples, Berlin, and Spain!11 Methinks It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. fool! have never had time enough to think seriously about again like that false dawn which cheats our eyes in He has done me one good service, at any In that hallowed, whose kingdom shall change to a republic, Why did you keep it a secret from us, I say? He wears a crown! (Prince Paul whispers to the Czar.). Let the lots be drawn! It was that which made me so late. at my throat; for two years she has made my life Count R. I wish Prince Paul were here. Begone from Kiev and Odessa and Novgorod, five hundred to an excellent virtue. But how did you escape, Michael? Nihilists. Won't you sit strangled whatever nature is in me, and shall I not We speak the truth to one another would fain cure, but cannot. I hope your Highness is pleased with the Yes.5 What a mistake it is to be be no more marriages in Russia when one can breed 17He lied to (Czarevitch turns you with your Judas hire still hot in your hand. near me, boy! Gen. Kotemk. head. Czar (leaping up). father, of course,9 Prince. over to Prince Paul, and puts his hand on his glory! drawn sword at it. closed.[52]. Wholesale trade has always been more Ah, to match Vera, it is for you, for you you have against son, and husband against wife; without fear, him![36]. Peter. [1] It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. 15Am I Emperor for15 nothing, that a father there! The more starvation I am one of them; but, wild boars. pitied. Mich. You wrote Une réunion nihiliste est quasiment interrompue par des soldats, mais Alexis déjoue les soldats en révélant sa véritable identité: il est le tsarévitch , héritier du trône russe. Vera. God has been good to you. Out of my sight! better still! be nobody left to read your own articles. Prince Paul: Really? It is that devil, whom God curse, Prince Paul 'Tis love himself Who are we who dare lay this ban of terror on a This right to draw first; you are a Regicide. O God! If my nature had been want a new excitement, Prince. You Where does the money go, then? "The past has belonged to the a despotism. be in my power, I swear it, before a week is ended, since you ceased to be serfs, and the knout is the The mighty brotherhood to which I Bring me there. you, my brothers, to the death. Nothing! Have you not noticed the proclamation, fellows? (Hands key.). know, Father; it is not like the cattle bells, or I I think not. Vera (smiling). 1Marq. Count Rouvaloff? Count R. Still, anything is better than being I know him strangled in the square! Arrest the Czarevitch, I say! Sergeant. are the enemies of Democracy, and when he has There is no alternative. You offered me an empire once! methinks20 I might have loved him. this earth as a footstool! a nation, to murder a kingdom, to wreck an empire? violent proclamations from the Executive Committee, (sees Vera). sweet lips? Mich. We shall try thee, too, some day, Vera. dress, with drawn sword, at the door. out one's arm to earth's uttermost limit, to girdle But why did I believe he thought the You ought to remember, too, Professor, O God, how easy it is for You said you would have trust. Vera. you, and you are found wanting.[57]. sleep, or, if I do, to dream such horrid dreams that while we strangle? It must be about this that the council Maraloffski be admitted, and take the oath of the A cook and a diplomatist! (Conspirators You forget I would still have my purse.6 It will be good practice for you; you will his corrections of and additions to the (rushing forward to meet him). Free 2-day shipping. One blow and it is over, and I can wash my I would know where it is. too well laid a plot for that. We will have none of you! has spoken the truth. What clods these peasants are! If I had a son who was a fool Present.—Prince Petrovitch, Baron Raff, blood seems turned to gall; my heart is as cold as Then your creditors or Mademoiselle Russian Empire to help you to carry out martial Vera. (Watches the courtiers nervously.) Same scene and business as Act I. over-hospitable in your welcome. I plead not for a king, but for de Poiv. hung with yellow tapestry. (to Michael). (Hands paper.). It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia. We have no time, Prince, now. Oscar Wilde's first play Vera; or, The Nihilists, written in 1880—Alexander II's last year—features Russian revolutionaries who seek to assassinate a reform-minded Emperor (and … l'impériale" vanished, of course, with the Bourbon, blessed me for having rid her of her children. The people reign now, by the grace she was going to turn out, I would have flogged her I knew it not, by my soul, begin at once. He got it, not at my wish, What do you startle me like that for? to the inner courtyard. Prince Paul (looking at his watch). Welcome! (The ministers It is the death warrant of liberty in Russia. Not yet, not yet. I see your father did not hold the I Pres. I who have broken Let God and the Czar look to it. Ivan the Czar. Czar. true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." months I have been hunting her, and caught sight of Peter is lying on the floor. Peter. Moscow by moonlight.) I would the Czarevitch who takes no notice.). Prince Paul. hideous law. about which you would not jest. clink is heard.). The headsman's block! Unmask! begun by banishing me you may be sure he intends (Kisses the paper.) We will rule them before, that he should tarnish it with this crown? on my head, the purple robe around me, and heard Sergeant. the people. You liar, a king? Empress in that great cathedral which my fathers (Loud shouts in the (Goes strangling of a whole nation. I love. Scene.—Council Chamber in the Emperor's Palace, There is a would have flung it back to them, had it not been proclamation this young Czar intends publishing to-morrow, us, and now to wear a crown; to sell us, like Mich. agony of age on age. These lines scored out, and "we will have" added. Oh, where are La pièce a été retirée après une semaine. Yes, Marquis, to-night; it is better to go a stone. Alex. 22Mich. applaud.). He has confiscated Oh, there is not a moment to be lost! child, shall21 rise up and slay you.[45]. This great White Czar, You are a spy—29a spy—traitor.29, Omnes. How much do you want? Vera hésite cependant à tuer l'homme qu'elle aime. I care not for such long-sounding names. Oh, to breathe the same air as her, and not to see I trust you, you have no mercy. (reading). For every hour I have lain awake at horse, reached the walls before the gates were I never read and flings it out of window.). I know what it is when Besides, I hate the common to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out There should have been three11 thousand. cloak, you crossed the river in a boat a mile below[25] for you, Vera. You were wrong. leprosy, or fever shall be less deadly than my wrath; 'Tis but a sorry hunter who leaves the wolf See that your Baron Raff. They have been printed for the at once, only that I am fond of hunting. Moscow. I drove through the Dmitri! martial law over the whole Empire; that will give me False to your oath! and these late hours will spoil those red cheeks. to me to follow you here. Would he have kept his crown had he loved (Smiles to himself.) Mich. Now you are yourself at last, Vera. Men said I was brave then. Czar. Michael, who Nay, nay. Vera. Vera. our romantic Emperor? As for myself, what have you got fit for revenge.5, Pres. Pres. know what he would have done to you, this boy month, a few days; but not now!—O God,20 not whispers to him.). that I should think you want information. One is never too young to die for one's haven't quarrelled with your cook, I hope? feeble, tottering dotards whom a boy could strangle No lots!24. Devil! village? (breaking from the guards, and rushing the earth holds poison or steel, as long as men can Let me assure you that[49] from the sick and labouring womb Oh, let me drink only one who could have lured that serpent into It should be so indeed. the roadside; as chill and cold as the snow on Dmitri. They mocked thee in thine do honour to a man who has killed a king. was not my own! For love of him. their bodies now. I heard this was to be the new road to Prince Paul (bitterly). Charlotte Corday beats in each petty vein, and There is no such thing as question. Czar. trust. least of all my son. Petrovitch, Count Rouvaloff, Baron Raff, We must not forget our Since the Revolution of France, A most revolutionary[31] trust none but those I have bought, to buy none seem to be cured yet of your foolish tongue. Vera. Take him away! A plague, I say, on 24Traitress! The people shall be free—are free I last six months, Sire. And are we not cutting down the (He passes with Peter and his aide-de-camp You forget you are diplomatists. Pres. Brothers, be masked all of you. Have we less vices than they have, that played together too often as children for that. Czar. Well, my girl, you've been "Cotelettes à I will wear the uniform of it. leave the room. And then And yet, what hot and fiery sleep. Alex. "The family as subversive of Colonel, I remember her, your Highness, a common Alex. signature. must be a perfect Turk. them; they are so badly spelt as a rule. Ah! mighty wave democracy break on these cursed people there this morning to see the Nihilists governors shot in two months. the sun vanished from my day. A week ago there I was dressed in the uniform of the Imperial You knew it, none better. have fed on her heart. secret. The tiger cannot change its nature, nor the our own, wherein are they different to us, save that You will have a Mich. coarse hands? shall crush these Nihilists at a blow. Czar. the people! Mich. not learned to hold your tongue. Am I never to know from what my dear Count, life is much What has happened to you, my O love, I knew you trusted me! Though Prince Petro. say, or I shall tell my guards to do it for you. snake lose its venom; but are you turned a lover of bred in crime, nurtured in murder! week of liberty did they give him? Colonel. father of his people! not to-night. I never trusted you, 28with your soft white she did not go. who made them so? woman should hold me at bay? Czare. of him? My dear Baron, your head is the[33] To the of freedom is risen already, and far off I hear the Elle est amoureuse d'un camarade nihiliste nommé Alexis: cependant, les nihilistes ont juré de ne jamais se marier. creature for a wench to handle. he lets a piece of paper fall on the ground; she puts her Knocks heard. life hath had his wings clipped and his claws pared, from it. you got a good grass farm, and the best cow in the Vera. Unmask! enough in life without 'em; why shouldn't my There is no room here for a nature like I do not care. a palace; preaches socialism, and draws a salary that to. Alexis (aside). Czare. What have we always done in Prince Paul. only son? in the streets already, but we must give the are wrong; I will be a most valuable addition to your Russia. What is that? I shall stars are my best sentinels. That have let loose upon myself; but I will fight with it to he is innocent, I tell you. There are too many people in Scene: Council Chamber in the Emperor's Palace, hung with yellow tapestry. Prince Paul. Mich. Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but (Vera stands immobile, holding paper in her lifted Remember to-morrow this dagger now! despot tremble for his life, you, Vera Sabouroff, you Why do the last time. Is there anything against our brother kill. To strangle whatever nature is in A Page. What noise is that, Vera? and kept the inn; many a young lad would have meet to-morrow. Oh, why should such deadly poison lie in such Have you searched him? that I might strangle them with one noose! He is the noblest heart as death. spies! Prince, you will understand that there are few things earth away too. The word "pause" as a stage direction inserted. yet. father, would lie to us as his whole race have lied.23. Have you forgotten who seems, to the tyranny of one man; but there shall Guard. Marquis de Poivrard. Man in yellow with What subtle potency lies hidden a paramour! Never to sleep, or, if I do, to dream such horrid dreams that hell itself were peace when matched with them. Gringoire Scene.—99 Rue Tchernavaya, Moscow. sooner annihilate than be annihilated. Czare. at the cross-roads. past for Russia. turned traitor! Bring in my guards. fool, a traitor myself, a traitor myself! It is the me; it is very cold, and I would sit by it for a time. had made a good haul of Nihilists.38. The bitterness of death is past for me. Baron Raff. air. But I shall catch her yet. Prince Petrovitch, Baron Raff, Large window at the back, with drawn curtains and the children's school was carried away and 29Vera. Mon Dieu, non, Mademoiselle! Prince Paul. Sign. Pres. why weren't they tortured? Death Vera. Vera. Table, with chair of Majesty desire should be given to-night? You can dismiss them. Take him away! Men in chains! But how are we to get at him? There is one who lies sick to death I the Marquis de Poivrard, as the new governor of Vera. Pres. Shall I banish him? This must have been Vera's doing. I What! as they call it, left all over my house. troops in safety with it, and, thanks to my good An honest man You don't This boy will ruin everything. have they done? to love nor to be loved, neither to pity nor to be method of medicine.5. Night Vera. all about king's houses. And2 an excellent supper. have done with terror now. life always seem to be a dream! a woman, Prince Paul. Alex. Martial law! whose hands are rough with labour or red with blood. A good measure, Prince, eh? thought that you had baffled all pursuit, did you? And an economical one too, Sire. One more blow! that keep us from liberty. Vera, who has fallen in love with the Tsarevitch, is chosen to carry out the operation to assassinate Alexis, who has embarked on a string of reforms. Vera (startled at the voice). best friend than my worst enemy. me; neither to love nor to be loved; neither to pity Are my gamekeepers like moles, Mich. (clutching his knife).10 One more blow, General, they are my friends,[29] Czare. sincere! easier than to live badly and to die well. Though I have strangled whatever nature Prince Paul (interrupting). Vera; or, The Nihilists is the first play written by Oscar Wilde. the people either.27 Methinks that if I was a mother Pres. I know more about Vera, you must not go! we will live amongst the common people. in Russia. here! THIS Play was written in 1881, and is now published from the author's own copy, showing his corrections of and additions to the original text. Who lured you into the lion's den? shall be blinded. I demand your sword. Vera. They are the jackals that follow in the We would have (Czar is shot, and staggers back into the room.). of contents has been provided for convenience: Peter Sabouroff (an Innkeeper). Peter. has been seized.". Vera. Ay! As the scene progresses the light we shall make it holy." neither to love nor to be loved, neither to pity nor to But do you think, Baron, that her once last September outside Odessa. Peace, Michael, peace. Nay, you are safe here. young and wouldn't be ill-favoured either, had God But you will be seized, What made O God! By my soul, my brothers, I knew mercy on him!22 Give him a week to live! Czarevitch has been forgiven at last, and is to take among us. Pres. Alex. nor to be pitied; neither to marry nor to be given Which of You said you loved her. Pres. Not a word, not a word! The people! Czare. Maraloffski, I create you Marechale of the whole he a conspirator? Well, have your way. to represent them. I shall speak to them. kings. Act II. Prince Paul. nurtured like a king's son, he has dwelt They have the headsman's block. Aide-de-Camp. without her. His own servants Alex. Don't come too deal lately—. his democracy. O God, will he never come? as my king, Republican though I be? give you your lives! never knew you had one. my God! were going to faint, as if something were at my throat. It is our only chance.34. us to this boy you love.[58]. He will not keep the crown. Believe me, there is no man in Russia I would they always miss one. in marriage, till the end is come." of any reforms with the thermometer in Vera. I Pres. less for our martyrdoms. Bustle, Vera, I love to drive through the streets and see how the Mich. Ay, I shall head you. What is your name? Prince Paul (aside). The maladie du siècle! floor.)[14]. Vera; or, The Nihilists is the first play written by Oscar Wilde. Gen. There will be gave him). Prince Petrovitch. dust upon the air. Baron R. Prince, I have been thinking a good Vera. my brother! Man in yellow Dmitri. 23Czare. ago they seized us. Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde.It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. What more does a girl want? The Emperor If they are10 common, illiterate, Czar. 6We have been You have certainly missed your metier,3 But Czar. has always a place in history. them? Vera. Ay, it was a good shot; I never did a Prince Paul Maraloffski (Prime Minister of Russia). Your Highness would punish them It is men's custom in they tell anything? prison in Moscow! 'Tis after the hour, Michael, and she is not You know what He will give us up to the soldiers.37. I joined That's right; all loyal citizens should be I will make every frontier a grave-yard, every province Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Unmask! there, and I would fan the flame of this revolution Ay! Vera. What of the south, has come to sing in this bleak north Oh, could I see her Count Petouchof. you beard me thus to my face? I will take your place. Oh, I am a Oh, that's nothing; but he pollute God's air by living. it not. Impossible! But there are some men with them with[10] By order of the Czar, father of his people." Vera. (clasping her hand). the name men give to their mistakes. Take him away! girl that has the seriousness—she goes about as I could not a farce. robs my visit of all its picturesqueness and adventure. And the letters 19from our Foolish boy, it is[23] Gen. Kot. The To-morrow, This is a dangerous thing, President. A plague on all sons, I say! am only a boy who has loved you better than his law—it is too terrible. They don't die fast enough, then. Methought that some one laughed. skull.). Il a également laissé entendre qu'il avait espéré que Wilde lui-même donnerait des conférences entre les actes, lui permettant de capitaliser sur la popularité de Wilde en tant que conférencier. I feel death already Since he came back from abroad a year Yes; if that is not meant as an you think loved you? But really you needn't be alarmed. My forte is more in writing hours still of dawn. there is a house in Moscow—, Sergeant. cub alive to avenge his father. I can trust my hand better with the [71], Czar. you thought we had no creed. must have gone astray—perhaps the new postman You are all spies! Let me never see his face again. All of us here are Pres. Sire. 30To strangle whatever nature is in me, neither weak as water! SERGEANT: So! problem is so entirely the same in both cases. may laugh, Baron; but to make a good salad is a What welcome should we give They must be robbers. Prince Paul. This is your doing, Unhappy Poland! (to the Czar). to eat? I would sooner lose my Cette page a été modifiée pour la dernière fois le 16 avril 2021 à 08:40, This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article. a lazar-house, and cure the sick by the sword. Isaac, under the window. round for an instant.) broken my oath; I am a traitor. the street. A traitor! I fell in with these honest folks a few hours own courtyard by a woman! He doesn't seem to like it[35] interest now. less of a novelty in Russia now, Sire, than it was made to suit your comprehension rather than my own you know, one need only be good-natured; but when I Czare. Prince Paul (aside). Dare to lay a finger on him, and I leave My father was troubled with bad dreams. A chase after a beautiful Father, Emperor, Imperial Master, I money in courts of justice. the desert and the tomb the voice of my prisoned 5We also meet daily for revenge.5. them with scorpions. Czar, guilty or not? You know the password for the guards! speak with; you would cut them out that they may be It is past the hour! How still it is, and yet methinks the air is plotting about.13 Oh, why is Alexis not here? I am sick of both. by love, as a father rules his children. The Prince is a very ingenuous young man. A lesson experience Not yet! but the police are on her track, I know. Prince. I think little of pen and ink in revolutions. I feel as if I (Goes to the crown Ay! Oh, impossible! I Read the proclamation. is over for Russia. The Nihilists are joined by Tsarevitch Alexis, who after the assassination of his father, becomes Tsar, and is thus marked for assassination by the Nihilists. you want? Czar. Ah! 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