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The Magnanimous Lover

A Play in One Act

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    St. John Greer Ervine 

  • Suíomh

    The kitchen and living-room of William Cather's cottage in the Northern Irish village of Donaghreagh.

  • Achoimre

    The play starts with the return to the village of Henry Hynde, ten years after having walked out on his pregnant girlfriend, Maggie Cather. He has decided to return to 'save her' from a life of sin, and to make a 'respectable' woman of her once more. When he proposes,however,Maggie him on the grounds that he would never see her as his equal.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

  • Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

    3

  • Méid na Fóirne (Baineann)

    2

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Maggie Cather Máire O'Neill (1)
William Cather Sydney J Morgan
Henry Hynde J M Kerrigan
Samuel Hynde J A O'Rourke
Mrs Cather Mona O'Beirne
Foireann Léirithe  
Léirithe ag Lennox Robinson

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Four Irish Plays; by St. John G. Ervine

  • Bliain

    1914

  • Foilsithe ag

    Macmillan and Co.

  • Seoladh

    London
    England

Eolas Faoi Chearta

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 by Lennox Robinson, with additional information from press cuttings of the time.