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Title: The Cabinet Minister
A farce in four acts

Author: Arthur Pinero

Release Date: October 1, 2010 [EBook #33957]

Language: English

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_The Cabinet Minister_

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_Arthur W. Pinero_

_THE CABINET MINISTER_

_THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR W. PINERO._

IN MONTHLY VOLUMES.

Price _1s. 6d._, paper; _2s. 6 d._, cloth.

1. _+The Times.+ A Comedy in Four Acts._

2. _+The Profligate.+ A Play in Four Acts. With a Portrait, and
a Preface by Malcolm C. Salaman._

3. _+The Cabinet Minister.+ A Farce in Four Acts. With an
Introductory Note by Malcolm C. Salaman._

4. _+The Hobby Horse.+ [Ready February._

_To be followed by "Lady Bountiful," "Dandy Dick," "The Magistrate,"
"The Schoolmistress," "The Weaker Sex," "Lords and Commons," "The
Squire," and "Sweet Lavender."_

THE CABINET MINISTER

A FARCE

In Four Acts

By ARTHUR W. PINERO

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

MDCCCXCII

COPYRIGHT, JANUARY 1892.

_All rights reserved._

_Entered at Stationers' Hall._

_Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U.S.A._

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

It is well known that Mr. Pinero holds decided views of his own as to
the nature and function of farce; indeed, he claims for it a wider scope
and a more comprehensive purpose than have ever been associated with
farce of the old Adelphi type, or the more modern genus of the Palais
Royal. He has openly expressed his opinion that farce must gradually
become the modern equivalent of comedy, since the present being an age
of sentiment rather than of manners, the comic playwright must of
necessity seek his humour in the exaggeration of sentiment. Thus Mr.
Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in
possible cir