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                              _PENELOPE_

                             _THE PLAYS OF
                       WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM_

        Uniformly bound cloth, 2s 6d; paper covers, 1s 6d each

                           _LADY FREDERICK_
                           _JACK STRAW_
                           _A MAN OF HONOUR_
                           _MRS. DOT_
                           _THE EXPLORER_


                         _NOVELS BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

                         Price 6s each

                           _THE EXPLORER_
                           _THE MAGICIAN_
                           _THE MERRY-GO-ROUND_
                           _MRS. CRADDOCK_

                         _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_




                              _PENELOPE_

                              _A COMEDY_

                            _In Three Acts_

                          _BY W. S. MAUGHAM_

                      _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_
                               _MCMXII_

                           _Copyright 1912_

This play, originally called _Man and Wife_, was produced at the Comedy
Theatre on Saturday, January 9, 1909, with the following cast:


                  DR. O’FARRELL         W. GRAHAM BROWNE
                  PROFESSOR GOLIGHTLY      ALFRED BISHOP
                  DAVENPORT BARLOW            ERIC LEWIS
                  MR. BEADSWORTH            HERBERT ROSS
                  MR. ANDERSON              J. H. BREWER
                  MRS. FERGUSSON           NORMA WHALLEY
                  MRS. GOLIGHTLY             KATE BISHOP
                  MRS. WATSON       MRS. CHARLES CALVERT
                  PEYTON                 E. ARTHUR JONES
                  PENELOPE                 MARIE TEMPEST




                        _CHARACTERS_


                          PENELOPE
                          DR. O’FARRELL
                          PROFESSOR GOLIGHTLY
                          MRS. GOLIGHTLY
                          MR. DAVENPORT BARLOW
                          M