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PETER JOHN COOPER (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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In 2011Peter John Cooper has been earning his living as a writer for forty years. As a playwright he has been commissioned to write for theatres and companies throughout the UK. As a librettist he has worked with composer Rodrick Skeaping to produce songs, an oratorio as well as for a number of musical plays. His poetry is written for performance where he specialises on full length forty minute events with music and actors. He is a believer in the power of drama as a medium for speech and is a devotee of what used to be called "the well-made play" as well as writing for site-specific and community events. As he says, his writing .."is where poetry collides with playwriting". He produces his own material from his company Spyway Projects.
Plays by Peter John Cooper
Cabinet Maker's Daughter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 11 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | Asone Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138989 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 19th Century Fossil Hunter, Mary Anning, in the last days of her life and increasingly dependent on laudanum, battles to complete the presentation of one last fossil, that will rock the world. Into this frenzy bursts life-long friend, collector and artist Henry de la Beche. Henrys arrival awakens emotions that Mary thought long buried. He has extraordinary news that Mary seems unable to grasp; together they embark on a strange journey back through her life, partly dream, partly memory revisiting amalgams of places, events, dinosaurs, and people long gone. Through it all is her enigmatic relationship with Henry; can Mary find resolution and peace? A play about frustration and achievement; dreams and memories - long, long ago on the Jurassic Coast. | |||||
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Captain Pugwash and the Monster of Green Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mowlem Theatre, Swanage | 23 Jul 1993 | ||||
Company: | Spyway Projects | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126676 | |||
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Genre: | Family | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 (as The Cabin Boy) | |||||
Notes: | The rights to the characters reside with the John Ryan estate and Gregory Associates who MUST be contacted before considering production. Rights for the play itself are with Peter John Cooper and Spyway Projects | |||||
Synopsis: | The only play abut Captain Pugwash sanctioned by John Ryan himself. Wanting to increase his chances of being elected Mayor, Pugwash decides to undertake a trip to a distant Island to capture a monster for the town zoo. Pugwash's rascally enemy Black Jake stows away on board hoping to gain riches for himself. The Black Pig is wrecked on the island and general mayhem ensues as everyone is chased by the Monster. In the end, as usual, it is Tom the Cabin boy who saves the day and they decide to let the monster go free when they discover a treasure chest with enough loot for all. | |||||
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Eve of War (Little Arthur's History of England) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Fire Sation, Oxford | Jul 1984 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126674 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A one woman play requires nursery set with bed, dressing table and many toys. Original title was "Little Arthur's History of England" when produced for Oxford Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Little Arthur gazes from his nursery window trying to make sense of the mad world of the grown ups beyond. It is September 1939, the eve of World War ll and Nanny Cummins wants to keep the truth of the coming horror from him."Eve of War" is a one woman show about the life of a Nanny and her charge in the nursery of a big house during the days and nights of September 1939. Nanny Cummins is more than a little eccentric and is definitely larger than life. During the course of the play we learn of Nanny's life, disappointments and attitudes to the looming conflict as she reads from the big history book that she keeps on the nursery shelf. From time to time she fortifies herself with a swig from her special medicine bottle that she keeps hidden under her pillow. In the end Nanny knows she cannot keep the truth from her little Arthur and, instead, tries to make him understand what it might all mean. And in a dramatic climax we come to understand the secret that Nanny herself has kept hidden all these years. . . "An astonishing piece infused with warmth and Melancholy" | |||||
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Hiawatha | ||
| 1st Produced: | Temple Cowley Centre, Oxford | 05 Dec1986 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126678 | |||
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Genre: | Family | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Idealfor small community venues as well as bigger venues. Multiple doubling of parts | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Longfellows poem which draws attention to the effect that the coming of the white men had on the native American tribes and their ancient culture. A black clad missionary starts a lantern slide show of his travels to the tribes of North America. Gradually the narrative of Hiawatha intrudes and we observe the whole telling of the epic through the eyes of the Ojibwa people. | |||||
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I want to Fly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Basingstoke Drama Centre | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Horseshoe Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126777 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre in Education | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Designed to be played in the round with the minimum of props including two aluminium stepladders | |||||
Synopsis: | An history of mankind's desire to fly from Icarus onwards with the story of Leonardo da Vinci and his models, the Mongolfier brothers and culminating in the story of The Wright Brothers. With participation interludes in which the children watching make a full sized replica of an albatross and invent their own flying machines. Suitable for 8 to 12 year olds. | |||||
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Jane Eyre | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | Oct 1982 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126778 | |||
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Genre: | drama adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Peter John Cooper and Helen Palmer | |||||
Synopsis: | A faithful retellin of the Emily Bronte novel which follows Jane's life from her childhhod as a bookish girl bullied by her cousins. Through her unhapy schooldays to her life as a governess in the house of the enigmatic Mr. Rochester. They fall in love but on their wedding day it is revealed that he is already married to the mad woman living in the attic. Jane flees and is about to marry a missionary and leave England forever when she hears of a fire at Mr Rochester's house. His legal wife has died and he is now blind and crippled. After an emotional reunion Jane marries him. | |||||
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Jolly Farmer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke | Dec 1976 | ||||
Company: | Horseshoe Theatre Co, Basingstoke | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126779 | |||
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Genre: | Drama with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Peter John Cooper and Jem Barnes | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of social reformer and radical politician William Cobbet from his humble beginnings in Farnham through short spel in the army, travel to America just as the revolution is brewing and back to edit his radical newspaper and write hism most famous book "Rural Rides" Told through his three election addresses as a member of parliament and with debates with his wife, Ann | |||||
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Krondos | ||
| 1st Produced: | Basingstoke Drama Centre | 1978 | ||||
Company: | Horseshoe Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126780 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre In Education | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Parts can be played by any combination of male and female actors. There is a video interruption at the end by The Dark Stranger. | |||||
Synopsis: | A performance and simulation. Aimed at 8-11 year olds. The Krondorian Senate has brought together the best brains from the galaxy to solve their energy crisis. Using preprepared classroom work, the audience bring arguments for different forms of energy that can be exploited. Throughout the audience learns about the theory of energy and how it is transmitted. The simulation ends with an open ended discussion on the solutions to the problems of Krondos. | |||||
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Little Red Riding Hood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drama Centre, Basingstoke | 28 Dec 1979 | ||||
Company: | Horsehoe Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126781 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Peter John Cooper and Jem Barnes. Designed for small scale production with simple effects | |||||
Synopsis: | A traditional pantomime with some excrutiating coincidences. Little Red lives in a cottage in the forest with her father Robin and his henchman Will Scarlet. On the way to Granny Hood's house, Little Red is captured by the rascally Sheriff of Nottingham disguised as a wolf. In order to free Little Red, Robin takes part in an archery contest which he wins but is still imprisoned in Nottingham castle. Eventually all is set right by the appearance of an old beggar who miraculously turns out to be. . .. Well you know the rest. | |||||
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Mayor of Casterbridge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | Nov 1983 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126681 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An adaptation suitable for a small cast in small venues | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's great work. The story of hay truser Michael Henchard who, whilst drunk, sells his wife and daughter to a sailor. Years later, henchard has forsworn drink and his risen to become Mayor of Casterbridge. He takes on a young scotsman Donald Farfrae as his assistant. However when his wife and daughter appear again things become complicated. Henchard again takes to drink and his business falls apart and Farfrae becomes the master as well as falling in love with the daughter. Things become worse when henchard finds out that the girl is not, after all, his own. In the end the tragedy works to fearful climax with the skimmety ride of rough music that ends in Henchards own death. | |||||
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatr Clwyd Outreach Centre, Mold | Dec 1981 | ||||
Company: | Theatr Clwyd Outreach | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126682 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Young woman with ambitions for stardom sets off to make her fortune in Hollywood. With interpolated music | |||||
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Robinson Crusoe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Basingstoke Drama Centre | Dec 1980 | ||||
Company: | Horseshoe Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126782 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Peter John Cooper and Jem Barnes. Designed for small scale production with simple effects | |||||
Synopsis: | The tradional story with many twists. Beginning in the Land of Green Ginger, Hull where Robinson ships on board the good ship Quasibungo with a rascally Sea Captain Will Atkins and his even more rascally mate, Freddy Friday. Somehow Robinsons Mother and girlfriend Polly Perkins end up aboard as well. Shipwrecked on a desert island, the hapless Robinson is catured by Aztecs but escapes when his mother discovers a new beauty potion in the cokking pot that was going to boil him alive. In the end everyone lives happily ever after (of course) | |||||
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Runaway Train, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford Playhouse | Jan 1985 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126783 | |||
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Genre: | Family comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Peter John Cooper and Jem Barnes. Music by Roderick Skeaping | |||||
Synopsis: | The old railway is in ruins but Sam the signalman and Griselda the tea lady are planning to open it as a tourist attraction. Cub reporter Gillian arrives to get the story The rascally Bazzer and his musician sidekick Ozzie are out to put a stop to this happening by putting a bomb in the drains. Somewhere there is a horde of gold hidden and they want it.The climax of the play is when the old train on the line runs away and finally crashes whereupon all is revealed. | |||||
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Shahrazad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duns Tew Village Hall, Oxfordshire | Dec 1988 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126677 | |||
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Genre: | Family | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Ideal for small community venues as well as bigger theatres. one of the actors should be a musician playing tabla, oud or sitar. Multiple doubling of parts | |||||
Synopsis: | A retelling of several of the 1001 Nights stories woven into a continuous narrative in which Shahrazad and her sister Dunyazad combine to outwit the King Shariar and his Vizier. The protagonists all take the parts of characters in the stories that Shahrazad tells including street traders, crooks and a flying horse. | |||||
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She Opened The Door | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dorchester: Corn Exchange | 01 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | AsOne Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126443 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Cleverly interweaving some of Hardy's characterful dialogue, this play with music takes a fresh look at Thomas hardy's first wife Emma and her relationship with Dorset's literary genius at the height of his fame. It takes place in the garden of the couple's home, Max Gate in Dorchester. Hardy's possessive mother, Jemima comes to visit for the first and only time and Mrs Florence Henniker arrives on the new fangled ladies safety bicycle, add a feisty (ruined) house-maid, some skeletons and a ghost or two to Emma's already tangled nerves, and you have a powder keg ready to blow! With music by world renowned composer Roderick Skeaping, design by the talented Annette Sumption, beautiful projected imagary and costumes expect an evening of quality and surprise. Be prepared to be touched, laugh and learn something. Although full of fresh ideas for Hardy enthusiasts - this is above all an entertaining, topical story of what fame and notoriety can do to relationships. | |||||
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Vanishing Author | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126680 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Not to be confused with a later radio play that used a similar title. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has just moved into his new home and his long time friend Budd is there to help him along with his mother. Doyle is trying to establish himself as a serious writer but all his publisher and readers want are more Sherlock Holmes stories. Doyle decides that Holmes must be killed off. Meanwhile we see the story of Holmes, Watson and Mrs Hudson who are dealing with strange death threats. As the play progresses the stories of Doyl and Holmes become inextricably linked as they both descend into madness. In a showdown one is killed and one survives but in the melee we are unsure as to which one remains alive at the end. | |||||
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Time Machine, The | ||
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Company: | Spyway Projects | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126796 | |||
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Genre: | Family | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Puppets include 2 white mice | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of H.G. Wells classic tale. Originally intended for production in 1996 | |||||
Synopsis: | The story told through live action and puppets. The Time Traveller is late for a lecture and when he arrives his clothes is torn and he is dirty and haggard. He has just returned from his horrific venture into the future.. He realises he must return to the future and come back before the lecture has begun. Meanwhile two white mice smuggle themselves on board the time machine. The Time Traveller continues his journey through the future rescuing a young creature from a horrible fate and carrying her and the mice into a distant future where they are safe before returning to give the lecture on time travel. Simple? A ripping adventure with sadness and jokes. | |||||
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Town Hall Fish, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hope FM studio, Bournemouth | Mar 2001 | ||||
Company: | Spyway Projects | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126675 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy and 6 teenage girls | |||||
Notes: | This is a community play for voices rather like "Under Milk Wood" which can be produced fully staged or as a minimal piece. Many parts can double. And could be performed with 3m 3f | |||||
Synopsis: | One day in the life of a small seaside town on the Jurassic Coast. 2 narrators, a stonemason, Harding and an undertaker, Lovell, introduce us to the quirky little town and its many disparate characters. These are eventually drawn together as the drama unfolds. The unpleasant owner of the Aquarium clashes with the elderly lady, Mae, on the clifftops. A man in a sinking rowing boat, fleeing from the clutches of the law, appears to be an angel to Mae as the sun sets into the sea and she turns to confront her tormentor in a dramatic denoument after which we return to the beach with Harding and Lovell and se how the dramas of the day fit in with a timespan from the Jurassic and into the far future. | |||||
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Trumpet Major, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pegasus Theatre, Oxford | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Oxfordshire Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/ (17th April 2012) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126679 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Ideal for small community venues as well as bigger theatres. | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's lesser known novel set against the fear of Napoleon's invasion on the South coast of Wessex. The aged Anne Garland sits creating a tapestry of her life representing events and characters by different colours. She returns to her girlhood and her infatuaion for two brothers, The dashing Trumpet Major and his easy-going seafaring brother Bob. Her affectiions waver between the two and are complicated by the unwanted attentions of the loutish farmer Festus Derriman. In the end the Trumpet Major sets sail for Spain with Wellington's army, never to return and Anne lives out her life in regret and sadness. | |||||
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