# Fanny’s First Play — Character guide

> Key figures in Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw.

- [Mr. Robin Gilbey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/mr_robin_gilbey.md): Gilbey presides over a respectable household where appearances are everything and a visitor on the doorstep is a scandal. When a young woman with a police-court connection to his son arrives, his instinct is to have her 
- [Mrs. Knox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/mrs_knox.md): Mrs. Knox holds her family together with prayer, work, and an unshakable sense of what people will think. When her daughter vanishes for a fortnight, she is the one who spots Margaret in the street and sends her husband 
- [Mrs. Gilbey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/mrs_gilbey.md): Mrs. Gilbey fields the family's crises with a mix of alarm and appetite, reading calling cards aloud and interrogating the butler about whether a visitor is 'a lady.' She is the one who decides to hear Dora out, over her
- [Fanny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/fanny.md): Fanny sits among the critics as the anonymous author of the evening's entertainment, drinking in their guesses and their praise while hiding a past that would scandalize her father. She has done time with Lady Constance 
- [Mr. Trotter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/mr_trotter.md): Trotter moves among the other critics with a slightly superior air, dismissing Pinero as too popular for the Fabian Society and then turning his attention to the play's suspiciously authentic police-court scene. He is th
- [Bobby Juggins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/bobby_juggins.md): Bobby is entangled with Margaret Knox and trying, with the help of his family's imperturbable butler, to extricate himself without looking like a cad. He worries about her feelings, about his own unworthiness, and about 
- [Margaret Knox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/margaret_knox.md): A strong, springy girl of eighteen who vanishes for a fortnight, then reappears shaking hands with a strange man—and her respectable father's world tilts.
- [Darling Dora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/darling_dora.md): A charming young woman whose sweetness may be performance, moving through the play's social circle with an agenda only she can see.
- [Holy Joe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/holy_joe.md): A religious figure who provides moral commentary.
- [Vaughan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/vaughan.md): A critic and member of the Savoyard group.
- [Flawner Bannal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/flawner_bannal.md): A theatrical critic and member of the Savoyard circle.
- [Mr. Cecil Savoyard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/mr_cecil_savoyard.md): A pompous critic who judges Fanny's play.
- [Monsieur Duvallet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/monsieur_duvallet.md): A French visitor who adds comic relief.
- [Juggins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/juggins.md): A butler who serves the Gilbey family.
- [Bobby Brighton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fanny_s_first_play_se/characters/bobby_brighton.md): A young man from Brighton, briefly mentioned.

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