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Title: Magic
A Fantastic Comedy

Author: G.K. Chesterton

Release Date: August 21, 2006 [EBook #19094]

Language: English

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MAGIC
A FANTASTIC COMEDY

[Illustration: G.K. Chesterton
From a photograph]

MAGIC
A FANTASTIC COMEDY

BY
G.K. CHESTERTON

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY
G.K. CHESTERTON

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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

THE PRELUDE

SCENE: _A plantation of thin young trees, in a misty and rainy
twilight; some woodland blossom showing the patches on the earth
between the stems._

THE STRANGER _is discovered, a cloaked figure with a pointed hood.
His costume might belong to modern or any other time, and the
conical hood is so drawn over the head that little can be seen of
the face._

_A distant voice, a woman's, is heard, half-singing, half-chanting,
unintelligible words. The cloaked figure raises its head and
listens with interest. The song draws nearer and_ PATRICIA CARLEON
_enters. She is dark and slight, and has a dreamy expression.
Though she is artistically dressed, her hair is a little wild. She
has a broken branch of some flowering tree in her hand. She do