Magic - A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and Three Acts. G. K. Chesterton
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Magic
A Fantastic Comedy
By
G. K. Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. By 1905, he had a regular and popular column with the Illustrated London News, and began to write on an array of topics. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian apologetics, most notably in Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). George Bernard Shaw dubbed Chesterton “a man of colossal genius,” and of his fiction Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges said “Chesterton knew how to make the most of a detective story.” Chesterton died in 1936, aged 62.
THE CHARACTERS
The Duke
Doctor Grimthorpe
The Rev. Cyril Smith
Morris Carleon
Hastings, the Duke’s Secretary
The Stranger
Patricia Carleon
The action takes place in the Duke’s Drawing-room.
NOTE
This play was presented under the management of Kenelm Foss at The Little Theatre, London, on November 7, 1913, with the following cast:
The Stranger
Franklin Dyall
Patricia Carleon
Miss Grace Croft
The Rev. Cyril Smith
O.P. Heggie
Dr. Grimthorpe
William Farren
The Duke
Fred Lewis
Hastings
Frank Randell
Morris Carleon
Lyonel Watts
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