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THEATRE IN ENGLISH
school year 2013- 2014
This booklet
belongs to
Robert Louis STEVENSON
The author was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. His family included
engineers, scientists, a professor of philosophy, and a religious minister. We can see
the scientific and religious sides of Stevenson's family reflected in both his life and
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Stevenson was a sickly child (he had serious lung problems) who read a great deal
about travel and adventure. A combination of his love of adventure and ill health led
him to spend many years as a writer travelling the world in search of a climate that
was healthier than Britain's.
In 1890 he went to live in the remote Samoan Islands in the South Pacific. He died
there in 1894 at the age of 44.
CHAPTER 1 - THE INCIDENT OF THE DOOR
London, 18--. One foggy evening, Mr Utterson
respected lawyer)
cousin) are
and Mr Enfield
(a
(a businessman and distant
taking one of their usual Sunday walks.
Suddenly, Mr Enfield points his walking cane
towards a door without any knock or bell and tells
Mr Utterson
(who perfectly knows where that door leads)
the
door is connected to his mind with an odd story.
Here is the odd story: coming back home after a late business, Mr Enfield
saw a man carelessly trampling over a little girl who, at three o’clock on a
cold winter morning had been called to fetch
a doctor. Mr Enfield and some other people
helped the child out
crying)
(she was terribly scared and
and caught the mysterious man by the
collar. Under pressure, the brutal man agreed
to compensate the family of the poor little girl
with money. At that point, the man - who said
his name was Edward Hyde, rushed into the mysterious house and came
out of it with a cheque worth 100 £. To everybody’s surprise, the cheque
was signed under the name of Dr Jekyll - the respectable London doctor!!
Mr Utterson knows the door is passageway that leads to Dr. Jekyll’s
laboratory, indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting rooms.
What is going on in the house of his old good friend Dr Jekyll? Who is the
brutish man having the keys to his laboratory?
TASK - find five adjectives and provide an opposite for each:
CHAPTER 2 - SEARCH FOR MR HYDE
That evening Mr Utterson is troubled by what he has heard. He is a
lawyer and at home he has in a safe the testament of Dr Jekyll, a very old
and good friend of his. Thinking his friend is in danger, he decides to read
the will. It contains a worrying instruction - in the event of Dr Jekyll's
disappearance, all his possessions are to go to Mr Hyde. Who is Mr
Hyde? Why has the got the key to Dr Jekyll’s house? Is Mr Hyde
blackmailing Dr Jeckyll?
Mr Utterson decides to visit Dr Lanyon, an old friend of his and Dr
Jekyll's. Dr Lanyon has not seen Dr Jekyll for ten years and says Dr Jekyll
has been following bad paths.
That night Mr Utterson has terrible nightmares. He starts watching the
door at all hours, and eventually sees Mr Hyde unlocking it. Mr Utterson
is terribly shocked by the sense of evil coming from him, and wonders
who Mr Hyde can be.
Mr Utterson goes next door to warn his
friend, Jekyll, against Hyde, but is told by
the servant, Poole, that Jekyll is out and
the servants have all been instructed by
Jekyll to obey Hyde.
Mr Utterson is worried that Mr Hyde may
kill Dr Jekyll to benefit from the will.
TASK - find the English equivalents for the following:
preoccupato da quanto ha udito
pensando che il suo amico sia in pericolo
un’istruzione inquietante
scioccato dall’aria di cattiveria che da lui
proveniva
ad avvisare il suo amico
CHAPTER 3 - DR JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Two weeks later, Mr Utterson hears from Dr Jekyll that he is giving a party.
He is very glad his friend is getting better and is no longer living a
secluded life, away from friends.
After the party Mr Utterson stays behind to talk to him about the will: he
expresses his worries, but Dr Jekyll laughs off his fears, comparing them to
Dr Lanyon's 'hidebound'
(conventional and unadventurous)
attitude to medical
science.
Mr Utterson persists with the subject of the will. Jekyll hints at the strange
feelings he has about Mr Hyde. Although he trusts Mr Utterson, Dr Jekyll
refuses to reveal the details. He asks him, as his lawyer and not his friend,
to make sure the will is carried out. Dr Jekyll reassures him saying 'Put
your good heart at rest, I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I
can be rid of Mr Hyde' but then, quite mysteriously, he asks Mr Utterson
to respect the will in case he dies.
TASK - provide Italian equivalents for the following:
Mr Utterson hears from Dr Jekyll that
he is giving a party.
He is very glad his friend is getting
better
Dr Jekyll laughs off his fears.
Mr Utterson persists with the subject
of the will.
“Put your good heart at rest, I will
tell you one thing”
...then, quite mysteriously, he asks
Mr Utterson to respect the will in
case he dies.
CHAPTER 4 - THE CAREW MURDER CASE
Nearly a year later, on a quiet night, a maid
looking out her window sees a man club an
elderly man to death. The maid recognizes
the murderer as Mr Edward Hyde, who
once visited her master. The victim is Sir
Danvers Carew, a well-liked old nobleman,
a member of Parliament, and a client of Mr
Utterson.
A letter addressed to Mr Utterson is found
on the body and the police contact him. He recognises the murder
weapon as the broken half of a walking cane he gave to Jekyll years
earlier. When he hears that the murderer is Hyde, he offers to lead the
police to Hyde’s house in Soho
(quite a sordid place).
Hyde is nowhere to be
found. They are told that Mr Hyde has not been at home for two months.
But when the inspector and Mr Utterson search the house they find the
other half of the murder weapon and signs of a hasty exit.
Fearing for Dr Jekyll's safety, Mr Utterson visits him in his house and
confronts him once again about his connection with Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll
swears that he will have nothing to do with Hyde ever again. He even
presents a letter signed by Hyde that states Dr Jekyll has nothing to fear.
TASK - find as many expressions of time as you can:
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CHAPTER 5 - THE INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
Mr Utterson goes to Dr Jekyll's house and is led by his servant across a
yard to a building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the
dissecting rooms. There he finds Dr Jekyll 'looking deadly sick'. He asks
whether he is hiding Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll assures him he will never see or
hear of Mr Hyde again. He shows Mr Utterson a letter from Mr Hyde
indicating he has left for good.
Once home, Mr Utterson decides to consult a friend and client of his, Mr
Guest, who knows how to read handwritings. He compares the letter with
one of Dr Jekyll’s invitations - they look quite similar but are still
somehow differently slopped.
Mr Utterson believes Dr Jekyll has forged the letter in Hyde's handwriting
to cover his escape from the Police. What is going on?
TASK - turn the following verbs to the past tense:
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CHAPTER 6 - REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR LANYON
Wanted by the Police, Mr Hyde is nowhere to be found. Coincidentally,
Dr Jekyll seems happier and, for two months, he socialises again, gives
parties and donates to charities.
Suddenly, however, he appears depressed and will not see Mr Utterson.
Utterson visits Dr Lanyon to discuss their friend's health, but finds Dr
Lanyon on his death-bed, instead. Shocked, very pale and suffering, Dr
Lanyon refuses to discuss Dr Jekyll who, he hints, is the cause of his
illness.
Trying to find out what has happened, Mr Utterson writes to Dr Jekyll. He
receives a very disturbing reply:
'I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you
must not be surprised, nor you must doubt my friendship, if my
door is shut even to you. You must suffer me going my own dark
way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger I
cannot name. I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of
sufferers also.'
Dr Lanyon dies and leaves a letter for Mr Utterson in an envelope marked
'not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll'.
Utterson, being a good lawyer, locks it away unopened in his safe.
Mr Utterson tries to visit Dr Jekyll several times, but his servant, Poole,
says he is living in isolation and will not see anyone.
FOOTNOTE - The size and age of Jekyll and Hyde
Jekyll is much bigger than Hyde. This is seen particularly when Hyde's small body is found
in the much larger clothes of Dr Jekyll. The author is perhaps suggesting Hyde is a smaller
part of Jekyll, but that if people repress the bad in them it will take over and destroy them.
Hyde is younger and more energetic than Jekyll. This suggests there is something
primitively energetic and exciting about mankind's baser nature; that the 'higher',
respectable nature of social humans is repressed and tame.
CHAPTER 7 - INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield are taking one of their walks, as at the
opening of the book. They pass Dr Jekyll's window and see him looking
'like some disconsolate prisoner'.
Mr Utterson calls out to him and Dr Jekyll replies, but 'the smile was
struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject
terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below'.
They depart stunned, speechless, and scared to death.
TASK - complete with the three missing tenses:
MR UTTERSON SUSPECTS SOMETHING IS WRONG.
✒ present simple
MR UTTERSON IS SUSPECTING SOMETHING IS WRONG.
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MR UTTERSON SUSPECTED SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
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MR UTTERSON WAS SUSPECTING SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
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CHAPTER 8 - THE LAST NIGH
One evening, Poole, Dr Jekyll's life-long servant comes into a rush to Mr
Utterson urging him to come to Jekyll's house: he is terribly upset and
keeps on saying there is something wrong.
They go to the laboratory, but the door is locked. The voice from inside
does not sound like Dr Jekyll's and both men believe it is Hyde who has
perhaps killed Dr Jekyll. Poole says6 the voice is not his master’s and it has
for days been crying out for a particular chemical to be brought, but the
chemicals given have been rejected as 'not pure'. He also says that earlier
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he saw a person in the lab who looked scarcely human.
By means of an axe and a kitchen poker, they break down the door and
inside find a body, twitching. In its hand are the remains of a test tube (or
vial). The body is smaller than Jekyll's but wearing clothes that would fit
him!
On the table is a will dated that day which leaves everything to Mr
Utterson, with Hyde's name crossed out. There is also a package
containing Dr Jekyll's 'confession' and a note asking Mr Utterson to read
Dr Lanyon's letter. Mr Utterson tells Poole he will return before midnight,
when he has read all the documents.
SPEAKING TASK - describe Dr Jekyll’s house using the map above.
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CHAPTER 10 - JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Finally, Mr Utterson reads Dr Jekyll's own confession from the letter he
found in the laboratory.
Dr Jekyll's initial reasons for developing the drug was to test his theory
that man has a dual nature. He was successful in separating the good and
evil sides of himself.
As Hyde, Dr Jekyll lived the free and fleshly life of his evil side. But the
effects of the drug became unpredictable. Discovering that he cannot get
hold of a crucial type of salt, Dr Jekyll realised that he could no longer
continue in this double life.
In the laboratory, unsuccessful at recreating the drug, Dr Jekyll killed
himself before Poole and Mr Utterson could break in. Dr Jekyll wrote the
confession with the knowledge that if the Hyde character won over his
nature, there would be no turning back.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
CHAPTER
Chapter 1
WHAT HAPPENS?
LONDON. One Sunday, possibly in November, Mr Utterson and Dr Enfield are out
for their usual evening walk. Mr Enfield tells the story of a strange-looking door
they pass.
Chapter 2
Later that Sunday night, Mr Utterson feels worried for his friend Dr Jekyll and
decides to read Jekyll’s will which he has in custody. Strange will.
Utterson watches for Hyde outside the door - days or weeks.
Then he meets Hyde and visits Jekyll's house. He worries his friend is blackmailed.
Chapter 3
Two weeks later. Dr Jekyll seems well: he socializes, meets friends, helps charities.
Chapter 4
Nearly a year later, in October, one night after 11 pm.
Sir Carew is killed by Hyde.
Utterson leads the Police to Hyde’s house the following morning.
Chapter 5
Later that afternoon; then in the evening.
Chapter 6
Two months pass.
8th January: Utterson dines with Jekyll.
From 12th to 16th January, Utterson tries to visit Jekyll, but is refused.
Utterson visits Dr Lanyon. A week later Lanyon dies.
Chapter 7
The next Sunday.
Chapter 8
One evening after dinner, Dr Jekyll’s laboratory.
At 10 pm, Dr. Utterson leaves the house. He will return by midnight.
Chapter 9
Dr Lanyon tells what caused his distress and death
Chapter 10
Jekyll's story from birth until nearly the end of his life
(letter).
(letter).
PLACES and OBJECTS
London. The city where the story takes place, London is an important setting for this
mystery - with its ever-present fog, socially stratified neighborhoods, and Victorian
contradictions in what appears to be, and what really is. The rich character of London is
central to the story.
The door. On one of their Sunday walks, Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson pass a building with
a noticeable door, which prompts Mr. Enfield to tell a story of his encounter with Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Utterson’s motivation is to find the secrets lying behind that door.
The cane. Mr. Hyde uses a cane to club Sir Danvers Carew to death - Mr. Utterson tells the
Police that it is the same cane that he once gave Dr. Jekyll as a gift.
The cheval-glass. It’s the mirror found in Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory, it was used to verify
whether the transformations worked. Poole comments that the cheval-glass must have seen
some strange things.
CHARACTERS
MAIN CHARACTERS
Dr Henry Jekyll - a respected doctor and friend of both Dr Lanyon, a fellow
physician, and Mr Utterson, a lawyer. Dr Jekyll is a seemingly prosperous man, well
established in the community, and known for his decency and charitable works.
Since his youth, however, he has secretly engaged in unspecified dissolute and
corrupt behavior.
Mr Edward Hyde - a strange, repugnant man who looks faintly pre-human. He is
described as small ('dwarfish') and young. People react with horror and fear when
they see him. He is violent, and has no sense of guilt about his crimes. In Chapter 1,
Hyde assaults a young girl, and in Chapter 4 he beats an elderly gentleman to death.
He has no motive for either of these attacks. His appearances in the novel are always
brief. People only catch impressions of him, before he vanishes into the dark or
behind a door. Hyde is very secretive. Language itself seems to fail around Hyde.
Mr Gabriel John Utterson - a prominent and respectable lawyer, well respected in
the London community. Mr Utterson is reserved, dignified, and rational.
Dr Hastie Lanyon - a reputable London doctor and, along with Mr Utterson,
formerly one of Dr Jekyll’s closest friends. He is a big contrast with Jekyll, who likes
to live dangerously and experiment with the paranormal (what Jekyll calls
'transcendental medicine'). He disagrees with Jekyll's ideas and calls them 'scientific
balderdash'. In Chapter 2, Lanyon has not seen Jekyll since he started to become
'too fanciful' and 'wrong in mind'. Dr Jekyll, on the other hand, regards him as
'hidebound' (conventional and unadventurous) in his attitude to medical science.
MINOR CHARACTERS
Mr Poole - Dr Jekyll’s butler. He is a loyal servant, having worked for the doctor for
twenty years.
Mr Enfield - a distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr Utterson. Mr Enfield is
reserved, formal and scornful of gossip.
Mr Guest - Mr Utterson’s young clerk, is a student of handwriting.
Sir Danvers Carew - a well-liked old nobleman, a member of Parliament, and a
client of Utterson.
THEATRE IN ENGLISH
T.N.T. PERFORMANCE
San Daniele del Friuli
DECEMBER 12th, 2013
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7. How much did you get of the English used?
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newspaper.
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Manuela Tellini
SSPG di Ragogna, Udine, ITALIA
September 2013