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im almost sure WP allows plot description. but to stay on the safe side i put it here, so as to inspire an editor better than me. theres also some uncertainity in what i can provide since i have seen this play only once, quite some years ago and it was not in the original languege.
so it is an alternative story of a "Robinson Crusoe" and his servant "Friday". the two men dialogue with each other, thats how we get their story. a man shipwrecks on a desert island, where he suffers and struggles to sustain himself. he is aware of defoes story about robinson, and he follows it as his destiny unfolds. when he meets another man, a cannibal, Crusoe takes him as his companion. they somehow manage to escape the other cannibals, and spend their lives together. robinson names his servant Friday and tells him about himself, that is he trying to teach him everything he knows and is worth telling. thats how he gets to teach him history and tells about the magnificent emperor of Assyria. going mad over decades they play a game to amuse themselves and to pass the time. robinson declares himself the Assyrian emperor and gives Friday the title of empirial architect. Friday plays along and addresses Robinson as his majesty the emperor. they seem to get so absorbed by the fantasy of their empire that they loose track of which one of them is Crusoe and which one is Friday. in their recollections they talk about how their efforts to build a pirog and leave the island fumbled. finaly Crusoe feels his deathday approaching and he asks Friday to eat him when he dies so that he lives further in Friday's body who has anyway became like him, absorbing all what he could remember of the world of civilisation. also Cruse had slowly forgotten everything he didnt repeat over and over while teaching Friday, so they kind of think and speak all the same, their ability to distinct between who is who depending only on who plays the role of the emperor and who is his architect. Finaly he lays in his coffin, Friday eats him, and just as he (Friday) remains alone on the island, left to be Crusoe from now on, a young cannibal appears whom he takes as his companion and names him friday and declares himself the emperor of assyria.80.98.114.70 (talk) 20:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
