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"A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act" was written by John Maddison Morton and published in 1853. English playwright known for his influential one-act farces, especially 'Box and Cox.'

A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act

1853

John Maddison Morton

A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act

John Maddison Morton

1853

A gleeful Victorian farce about a thief who gets far more than he bargained for. Captain Ratcliffe, armed with nothing but audacity and a disguise, slips into Mrs. Somerton's home intent on making off with her fifteen thousand pound fortune. But the night unravels into glorious chaos when Mr. Percy Postlethwaite, her own hapless intended, comes creeping through the windows intent on surprising her. What follows is a dizzying dance of mistaken identities, close calls, and the kind of编排精巧的混乱 that only Victorian comic theatre can deliver. Ratcliffe's schemes keep collapsing into encounters with the very man whose fiancée he's trying to rob, while both men scramble to explain their presence without revealing their ridiculous secrets. Love, naturally, somehow conquers all. The play fizzes with the pure theatrical pleasure of watching everything go wrong and then somehow, magically, right again.