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The Marriage

A Play in One Act by Douglas Hyde Translated from the Irish by Lady Gregory

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Lady Gregory 

  • Athchóirithe/ Aistrithe ó

    Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde)

  • Suíomh

    A poor country cabin in the West of Ireland.

  • Nótaí

    Lady Gregory's translation featured a slightly different ending to Hyde's original.

  • Achoimre

    A short play about Martin and Mary, a desperately poor pair of newly-weds with scarcely a penny with which to even celebrate their own wedding day. As they sit to eat on their first day of married life, a blind old fiddler comes to the door looking for food. Though barely able to feed themselves, the couple share what little they have with the stranger, who turns out to be none other than the famous poet Raftery. Raftery repays their kindness by using his music to lure the neighbours into house, each one (almost!) bearing generous wedding gifts for the young couple. And yet how is Raftery managing to work this miracle – having died three days previously?

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Athchóiriú/Aistriúchán

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

  • Cast size

  • Male

    7

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    11

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Old Farmer Andrew Patrick Wilson
Two Girls M. Perolze
Two Girls Mona Shiel
Grey-Haired Man J. McCabe
Fair Young Man W.J. Manser
Middle-Aged Woman R. Leech
Mary F.M. Salkeld
Martin Charles Power
Miser P. Murphy
Blind Fiddler Michael Conniffe
Young Man J.R. Burke
Foireann Léirithe  
Léirithe ag Nugent Monck

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Selected Plays of Douglas Hyde. With translations by Lady Gregory. Chosen and with an introduction by Gareth W. Dunleavy and Janet Egleson Dunleavy

  • Bliain

    1991

  • Foilsithe ag

    Colin Smythe Ltd.

  • Seoladh

    P.O. Box 6
    Gerrards Cross
    Buckinghamshire SL9 8XA
    England

  • Guthán

    + 44 1753 886000

  • Ríomhphost

    sales@colinsmythe.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.colinsmythe.co.uk

  • ISBN

    978-0861400959

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