TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
This play was written some ten or twelve years ago, but has never been published or performed in the original. A translation in two acts was printed in Germany a few years before the war; but the present is the only authorized version, in its final, one-act form, that has hitherto appeared in any language.
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Chelsea, 27 February, 1918.
CHARACTERS
- Saint Anthony
- Gustave
- Achille
- The Doctor
- The Rector
- Joseph
- The Commissary of Police
- A Police-sergeant
- A Policeman
- Mademoiselle Hortense
- Virginie
- Léontine, an old lady
- Valentine, a young girl
- Other Relations and Guests
The action takes place in the present century, in a small Flemish provincial town.