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Our knowledge of the play The King In Yellow is largely restricted to its first act, and is not much. In The Repairer of Reputations it is said that the "banality and innocence of the first act" belies the awful effect of the rest. Thus any reconstruction of the play should have a first act that is not that strange, horrific or challenging, save, possibly, for its conclusion. In addition, there is a brief poem at the start of The Yellow Sign that could be part of the play, although it is unattributed, and an utterance of Hildred Castaigne that could conceivably be a quote from the play.

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  • Our knowledge of the play The King In Yellow is largely restricted to its first act, and is not much. In The Repairer of Reputations it is said that the "banality and innocence of the first act" belies the awful effect of the rest. Thus any reconstruction of the play should have a first act that is not that strange, horrific or challenging, save, possibly, for its conclusion. In addition, there is a brief poem at the start of The Yellow Sign that could be part of the play, although it is unattributed, and an utterance of Hildred Castaigne that could conceivably be a quote from the play.
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  • Our knowledge of the play The King In Yellow is largely restricted to its first act, and is not much. In The Repairer of Reputations it is said that the "banality and innocence of the first act" belies the awful effect of the rest. Thus any reconstruction of the play should have a first act that is not that strange, horrific or challenging, save, possibly, for its conclusion. Of the three quoted sections of the first act, two are specifically stated as belonging to the second scene. Depending upon one's interpretation of which lines are the last lines of the first act, we may be restricted to just two scenes (which would work best with the unmasking representing the transition from the banal to the supernal, as well as forming a pleasing reflection of the probable two act structure of the play). In addition, there is a brief poem at the start of The Yellow Sign that could be part of the play, although it is unattributed, and an utterance of Hildred Castaigne that could conceivably be a quote from the play. (For attempts to reconstruct the play and fragments by authors other than Chambers, see Reconstructing The Play, please do not add them here.)
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