: Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts by Maeterlinck Maurice Teixeira De Mattos Alexander Translator - Mary Magdalene Saint Drama

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Translator: Alexander Texeira de Mattos

Characters' names within italicised stage directions are intended to be read as upright font.

MARY MAGDALENE

BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK

NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1910

Before setting to work, I asked the venerable German poet, whom I hold in the highest esteem, for his permission to develop those two situations, which, so to speak, were merely sketched in his play, with its incomparably richer plot than mine; and I offered to recognize his rights in whatever manner he thought proper. My respectful request was answered with a refusal, none too courteous, I regret to say, and almost threatening.

I will add that, excepting the principle of these two situations, in all that concerns the subject of the play, the conduct of the action, the persons, the characters, the evolution and the atmosphere, our two works have absolutely nothing in common: not a phrase, not a cue of the one will be found in the other.

Having said this, I am happy to express to the aged master my gratitude for an intellectual benefit which is none the less great for being involuntary.

MAURICE MAETERLINCK.

ACT I

SCENE I

SILANUS

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