Empty theatre, p.33
Empty Theatre, page 33
Mistakes and Resentments
He Said, He Said
Hours and Days—Eternal Biding
The Polish Disease
An Introduction
Ahem.
Audience
In Absentia
Seeing and Being Seen
“The Urning, too, is a person.”
Too Little, Too Late
Two Princes
Common Courtesy Dictates
Priorities
An Exchange of Gifts
Threats
Charge the Palace
Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die
If Only
Peer Pressure
In Mutual Pursuit
A Personal Battle
And in Exchange
“One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.”
The Lady Sculptor
Quite the Bargain
Is This a Joke?
Progress
A Perfect Pair
No Punch Line
Much-Plagued Spirits
A Crisis of Friendship
Period of Infirmity
Hallowed and Unapproachable
Villains
In Commemoration of a Foundation Being Laid
A Moment of Your Time
More and More
Escape from Exile
The Gold’s Bright Eye
Unsolicited Advice
Instead
This Mad Carnival of Loving
Everything Has Its Price
Tickets, Please
No Hard Feelings
A Time for Humility
By the Pure and Holy Sign of the Royal Lilies on the Invulnerable Balustrade Enclosing the Royal Bed
Season of Bright Sadness
That Will Be All
Culture and Education
Settling
Party Crashers
Victorian England
Confession
Risk
Too Far
Role Modeling
A Derby
Denial
Manners
Enter a Nefarious Figure
Misery Loves Company
Unspoken
The Royal Cycle of Disappointment
Habits
She Cares / She Doesn’t
Mourning—Chaos—Comfort—Detachment
Other Elisabeths
Finally
Please
A Friend for Dinner
Nothing a Little Mercury Can’t Help
Knives, Poison, a Diagnosis
The Meaning of Asylum
Nothing to Be Done
The King Is Dead
Insult to Injury
A Shadow
Familiar Phantoms Rise Again
Or …
Warning Signs
In the Heart
A Meditation
Long Live the King
Acknowledgments
Also by Jac Jemc
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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