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'THE RAPE OF THE LOCKS'

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Comedy by Menander, with the gaps in the papyrus conjecturally filled by Gilbert Murray , who introduces the play. Produced by Barbara Burnham
Scene: Corinth, c. 300 B.C.: a street with two houses. Polemo's to the right, Myrrhine's to the left
The fragments of this play by the Greek dramatist were discovered in Egypt in 1907. It is pfobably the oldest comedy of manners in the world. Professor Murray's completed translation has not hitherto been either performed or published.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert Murray
Produced By:
Barbara Burnham
Philinus:
Esme Percy
Pataecus:
Felix Aylmer
The Goddess Ignorance:
Evelyn Hall
Polemo:
Martin Wilder
Sosias:
Ernest Jay
Glycera:
Peggy Ashcroft
Doris:
Nadine March
Moschio:
Alec Guinness
Myrrhine:
Martita Hunt
Habronis:
Cherry Cottrell

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