y separately published work icon The Faithful (International) assertion single work   drama   - Three acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 The Faithful
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Faithful Max Afford , Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1937 8707704 1937 single work radio play historical fiction

An adaptation by Max Afford of John Masefield's play The Faithful (first produced and published in 1915), which recounts the story of the 47 Ronin (a story that is both an historical event from eighteenth-century Japan and a legend).

A ronin is a samurai left masterless by the death or fall of his master or by the loss of his master's favour. The legend of the 47 Ronin follows the story of forty-seven masterless samurai successfully seeking revenge on the court official who caused their master's fall, before committing ritual suicide (seppuku).

Notes

  • The Faithful is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.

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