Magic - A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and Three Acts. G. K. Chesterton

      

      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