GEORGE COLMAN - INKLE AND YARICO

ACT I
The two charcters presented in the first scene are Trudge and the uncle of the main chara
cter Inkle, Medium, and they are worried about the fact that if their ship did not arrived i
n time they would have been eaten by the native Americans present there. They are in th
e forest, looking for Inkle that is lost through it. Then he appears, saying that he travels
not only "for motion" but especially to find something useful to his business bacause he
is a merchant. In reply his uncle says that his duty is to convey his betrothed Narcissa ba
ck to her father, the wealthy governor of Barbadoes, and not to think on his own improv
ement. In the second scene a ship is at anchor in the bay, its captain and his sailors are w
aiting for Inkle, Trudge and Medium to arrive but at a certain time they decide to aband
on them there, because they were waiting for some food to share but after they saw the
m without it they decide to leave and only Medium succeed in sailing off. So Trudge an
d Inkle have now to pay attention because there's a group of cannibals behind them. Thu
s, they decide to walk in order to find a place that could hide them. In the third scene aft
er they walk for a while they found a cave, decorated with skins of wild beasts, so they t
hink it's a house of the cannibals, but then they find two women sleeping there, Yarico a
nd Wowski. When they wake up and found that the two men were hiding there they fell
in love with each other and the women decide to defend and protect from the dangerous
cannibals.
ACT II
Now the first scene takes place at the Quey in Barbadoes in which planters represent the
noisy world of trading. They are aware of the lack of slaves and so want to buy them. T
hen suddenly a ship as coming. Moving inside the ship, we have Narcissa, the daughter
of the governor and Patty, her servant, talking on. Narcissa warned Patty to not tell anyt
hing about they have said about Campley, the captain of their ship and replying Patty co
nfirmed that she will not say anything. Then the Captain enters and they start talking ab
out their situation, because he and Narcissa have fell in love with each other . Narcissa t
hink Inkle is dead so they wont to marry but they don't have the courage to tell this to th
e governor and so for now they mantain their feelings towards each other secret.But the
n Patty enters frightened by the fact that Inkle is still alive, so Narcissa urge Campley to
propose himself quickly to her father, because delays are dangerous in this case. At the o
ther side Trudge and Wowski are walking inside the ship and she is so happy about this
and want to learn new things so she makes to Trudge a lot of questions. Then there is a d
ialogue between Trudge and a Planter in which we understand the different meaning of t
he term market (the latter refers to the market of slave and want Wowski to become it, w
hile Trudge first refers to the market of goods, then understand and deny the planter this
pleasure bacause he loves his woman). Another dialogue takes place between Inkle and
another planter who's trying to convince him to sell Yarico, focusing on his old merchan
t values. At first Inkle doesn't want to, but then he decides to sell her because the old val
ues prevailed upon him. Then after sir Christopher and Medium talk about their own vir
tues, in the second scene a servant gives the announcement that an English vessel is just
arrived in the harbour so the governor think it's her daughter and want the marriage to b
e made up soon. Then Campley enters and there's a set of misunderstanding because he
understand from sir Christopher that he could marry Narcissa while the governor unders
tand that Campley wants to help him carry on with the marriage.
ACT III
In this last scene we have first the meeting between sir Christopher and Inkle who wants
to sell Yarico to the governor, thinking that he can treat her in a better way than he does.
But the governor talk about the slave trade as a consequence so in a negative way where
as we can see the mind and values of a merchant in Inkle's words. After arguing with Tr
udge that have to sent the letter in which he writes that he wants to part from Yarico, she
enters, screaming and crying out to Inkle to not leave her after she defend and proctect h
im from cannibals for all that time. So sir Christopher take the defence of Yarico and kn
ow what the real behaviour of Inkle is, then convinced him to not abandon her. Finally
Campley, Narcissa and Patty together with Trudge and Wowski also appear, the set of m
isunderstanding between the characters is solved and Campley and Narcissa together wi
th all the others could celebrate the wedding, coming home.