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Charles Hawtrey The Private Secretary (Paperback) Mint Editions (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Private SecretaryCondition: NewEAN: 9781513280615ISBN: 9781513280615Publisher: Mint EditionsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/01/2021Description: The Private Secretary (1883) is a three-act comedy by English actor and playwright Charles Hawtrey. Adapted from a popular German farce, The Private Secretary helped launch Hawtrey’s career as one of Victorian England’s leading theatrical figures. Initially panned by critics and audiences, The Private Secretary was revised and shortened by Hawtrey, who then restaged the play to resounding praise. Revived countless times throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Private Secretary is a comic masterpiece that set the stage for such playwrights as Oscar Wilde. Harry Marsland and Douglas Cattermole are two young friends who find themselves deeply in debt. Ever unwilling to take responsibility, they look to Robert Spalding, a clergyman as honest as he is innocent, for a way out. While Spalding is employed as a secretary for the Marsland family, Douglas…borrows…his identity in order to seek forgiveness from his creditors. Meanwhile, Douglas’ uncle returns from India and mistakes the unwitting clergyman for his nephew and precedes to berate him for his newfound silence and passivity. When a suspicious creditor uncovers their poorly concealed plan, the two friends must bribe him with a chance to stay at Harry’s family estate, which only further risks the chance of Spalding getting to the bottom of his own strange situation. The Private Secretary is a comedy of manners that dissects English aristocratic life in order to expose its capacity for vanity, greed, and exploitation. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition Charles Hawtrey’s The Private Secretary is a classic work of English comedy reimagined for modern readers.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmAuthor: Charles HawtreyContributor: Mint Editions (Contributions by)Genre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: Mint EditionsRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: The Private Secretary

Title: The Private Secretary

EAN: 9781513280615

ISBN: 9781513280615

Release Date: 07/01/2021

Release Year: 2021

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Item Height: 203mm

Contributor: Mint Editions (Contributions by)

Series: Mint Editions

Book Title: Private Secretary

Number of Pages: 76 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Mint Editions

Publication Year: 2021

Topic: Ancient & Classical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Genre: Drama

Author: Charles Hawtrey

Item Length: 8 in

Book Series: Mint Editions (Plays) Ser.

Item Width: 5 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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