



Produced by David Thomas






THE SORCERESS

A Drama in Five Acts
BY
VICTORIEN SARDOU

Authorized Translation from the French by
CHARLES A. WEISSERT
With an Introduction by the Translator


BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY RICHARD G. BADGER
All Rights, including those of Presentation, Reserved

The Gorham Press, Boston, U.S.A.
Printed in the United States of America


PREPARER'S NOTES

This book was originally digitized by Google and is intended for
personal, non-commercial use only.

Alterations from the original text:
-Rename Act Four/Scene 8 to "Scene 7".
-Spelling correction: change "Calabazos" to "Calabazas".


DEDICATION

TO THE MEMORY
OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON SOUTH, JR.


SARDOU AND HIS WORK

I

Victorien Sardou was born in Paris on September 7, 1831. His father,
a native of the vicinity of Cannes on the Mediterranean, came to Paris
in 1819 and followed a variety of scholastic pursuits. His mother was
a resident of the ancient city of Troyes. Victorien's father finally
engaged in literary work, edited text books and taught in schools.
His interesting personality made for him many friends. He never became
well-to-do; on the contrary, he became so entangled in indebtedness
that he gave up Paris and returned to his olive groves in the south
with the hope of being able to satisfy his creditors. He left behind
him Victorien, aged twenty-two, who was struggling to displace with
studies in surgery and medicine his dreams of becoming a poet and
dramatist. But he could not change his gods. A youth who had read
before