Penelope
There are two stage plays by this name:
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Penelope by W. Somerset Maugham (1909)
The original text
A comedy in three acts written by W. Somerset Maugham ()[]. It was originally called Man and Wife and was first produced at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday, January 9, 1909, with a cast that included Marie Tempest.
South African productions
First performed in English by the American Dramatic Company at His Majesty's Theatre on 29 April 1918, with a cast that included Hilda Attenboro.
Sources
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Penelope, by W. Somerset Maugham[1]
Penelope by Enda Walsh (2010)
The original text
Penelope is a tragicomedy written by Irish playwright in 2010. It concerns the attempts of four men seeking to win over Penelope in the absence of her warrior husband, Odysseus, who has been away for the previous twenty years fighting the Trojan wars.
It was first performed at the Oberhausen Theater in 2010 by the Druid Theatre Company, Galway and published by Nick Hern Books, London, 2010.
