BY THE SAME AUTHOR
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
ANDROMACHE
A Play in Three Acts
London: William Heinemann
21 Bedford Street, W.C.
CARLYON SAHIB
A DRAMA
In Four Acts
By
GILBERTMURRAY
LONDON:WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MDCCCC
Prefatory Note
Dramatis PersonÆ
The First Act
The Second Act
The Third Act
The Fourth Act
PREFATORY NOTE
This play was written at Viareggio in 1893, and passed an eventful though not unchequered existence for six years before it was produced by Mrs. Patrick Campbell at the Princess of Wales' Theatre, Kennington, on June 19, 1899. The version here published is not exactly that which was acted, though it is much nearer to the acted version than to the original play as it stood before I had the benefit of Mrs. Campbell's vivid and helpful criticism.
I may remark here that the Play never had the ghost of a glimmer of a conscious political allusion in it; nor did it occur to me, when I put my Napoleonic hero in the surroundings which seemed to give most scope to his autocratic and unscrupulous genius, that any sane person would suppose that I wished to attack the Indian Civil Service. The plays on my bookshelves teem with villains of the most diverse professions, from kings and clergymen—chiefly, I must confess, Roman Catholics or Dissenters—to lawyers and journalists. I do not think I should chafe at the appearance of a villanous Professor of Greek. And on the whole I cannot help hoping that those of my critics and friends who adopted a high patriotic tone against this play, will upon reflection be inclined to agree that their imperial sensitiveness was a little overstrained.
GILBERT MURRAY.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
The Right Hon. Sir
David Carlyon | } | Sometime Chief Commissioner of Rajpor,
and formerly Political Agent in BhojÂl. | |
| Vera Carlyon | | His daughter: student of Medicine at Zurich. |
| Elizabeth | | A friend, acting as housekeeper to the Carlyons. |
| Adene | | A young writer on philological subjects. |
| Dr. Rheinhardt | | A medical professor at the University of Zurich. |
| Selim | | A former servant of Sir David Carlyon. |
| A Trained Nurse |
| A Manservant |
| A Punkah-Boy |
(Carlyon is a man approaching sixty, strong, genial, eagle-eyed; Elizabeth, a nice-looking though slightly haggard elderly lady, with white hair, very quiet in demeanour; Rheinhardt, a short man with an excitable manner and bristly iron-grey hair.)
The First Three Acts take place in Carlyon's country house in England.
The Fourth Act in a bungalow in the Ghautgherry Hills, India.
Carlyon is pronounced like the two words "car-lion," the accent being on the i. The Indian form Kaliena, has the i long and accented, the other syllables short.
