History Plays for the Grammar Grades
Book Excerpt
DRAKE: The terrible storm that came up helped us to destroy the Spanish Fleet.
QUEEN: From now on our power on the sea will grow greater and greater. We can now go to America without danger from the Spanish.
End of Play.
PILGRIMS
ACT I.
INTRODUCTION:
The Pilgrims were persecuted for their religion in England. They went first to Holland. After a time they decided to come to America because they wanted their children to grow up in their own language and customs.
They set sail for America in the Mayflower. They had a long and dangerous journey, but on November 20, 1620 they found themselves looking with glad hearts upon the sandy but heavily-wooded shores of Cape Cod. They signed an agreement as to the government of the Colony and elected John Carver their first Governor.
Captain Standish was their captain. The first act will be Captain Miles Standish and his sixteen men returning from