Savva and The Life of Man

A Play in Five Scenes With a Prologue

1906

To the Bright Memory of My Friend, My Wife

I Dedicate This Composition

The Last on Which We Worked Together

Persons

Someone in Gray called He

Man

His Wife

Man’s
  Father
  Relatives
  Neighbors
  Friends
  Enemies
  Guests

Servants

Musicians

Physicians

A Bartender

Drunkards

Old Women

PROLOGUE—Someone in Gray called He, speaking of the Life of Man

Scene I — The Birth of Man and the Mother’s Travail

Scene II — Love and Poverty

Scene III — Wealth. Man’s Ball

Scene IV — Man’s Misfortune