| Act I | Scene I Scene II Scene III |
| Act II | Scene I Scene II Scene III |
| Act III | Scene I Scene II Scene III |
| Act IV | Scene I Scene II |
A Drama
In Four Acts
By
James Edgar Smith.
Founded upon Nathaniel Hawthorne's Novel,
"The Scarlet Letter."
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JAMES J. CHAPMAN,
1899.
Copyright, 1899, by JAMES EDGAR SMITH.
All rights reserved.
Press of George S. Krouse. Bindery of Edwin F. Price.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Stigmatization is a rare incident of ecstasy. Notmany well authenticated cases have been reported by competentmedical authorities, and yet there can be no doubt ofits occasional occurrence. See Encyclopaedia Britannica,article on Stigmatization by Dr. Macalister, and referencestherein cited; also the work on Nervous and Mental Diseasesby Dr. Landon Carter Gray, page 511. That it mayoccur in men of a high order of ability is instanced by thecase of St. Francis of Assisi.
It ought not to be necessary to point out that the entirethird scene in the second act of this play is a dramatic transcriptfrom the diseased consciousness of Mr. Dimsdell, thatthe Satan of the play is an hallucination, and that the impressof the stigma upon Dimsdell's breast is merely theculmination of his auto-hypnotic ecstasy, or trance.
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