title: The Action and Adventure Cinema
author: Yvonne Tasker
description: Yvonne Tasker is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Spectacular Bodies (1993), Working Girls (1998) and Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (2002), all published by Routledge.
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  # The Naturewoman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Upton Sinclair
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  ACT I
  
  
  ACT II
  
  
  ACT III
  
  
  ACT IV
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHARACTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  Oceana: the Naturewoman.
  
  
  Mrs. Sophronia Masterson: of Beacon Street, Boston.
  
  
  Quincy Masterson, M.D.: her husband.
  
  
  Freddy Masterson: her son.
  
  
  Ethel Masterson: her younger daughter.
  
  
  Mrs. Letitia Selden: her elder daughter.
  
  
  Henry Selden: Letitia's husband.
  
  
  Remson: a butler.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ACT I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [Scene shows a luxuriously furnished drawing-room. Double doors,
  
  
  centre, opening to hall and stairway. Grand piano at right, fireplace
  
  
  next to it, with large easy-chair in front. Centre table; windows
  
  
  left, and chairs.]
  
  
    
  [At rise: ETHEL standing by table; a beautiful but rather frail
  
  
  girl of sixteen; opening a package containing photograph in frame.]
  
  
    
  **ETHEL.** Oceana! Oceana! [She gazes at it in rapture