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The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie
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Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly disapproves of this.
Loam, his family, a maid, and Crichton are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge. Eventually, social roles are reversed, and Crichton becomes the governor.
Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly disapproves of this.
Loam, his family, a maid, and Crichton are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge. Eventually, social roles are reversed, and Crichton becomes the governor.
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(He grows pale and taps his forehead.)
LADY MARY. Oh dear, I believe he has forgotten it.
LORD LOAM (desperately). The proverb—that proverb to which I refer—
(Alas, it has gone. The distress is general. He has not even the sense to sit down. He gropes for the proverb in the air. They try applause, but it is no help.)
I have it now—(not he).
LADY MARY (with confidence). Crichton.
(He does not fail her. As quietly as if he were in goloshes, mind as well as feet, he dismisses the domestics; they go according to precedence as they entered. . . Read More
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It’s difficult to say that I really enjoyed The Admirable Crichton. I’ve never read anything by Barrie and that includes Peter Pan. I was Disneyfied on that one. Crichton is intended to be a light, comedic play discussing class and upstairs/downstairs ethics. Reading it I didn’t think it was particu
3.5 stars
There's a terrible lot *wrong* with this play but I still found it quite dear and funny and compelling and ... Barrie's so hard to dislike as a writer even when I object strongly to the things he gets up to. And I particularly and nerdily enjoyed seeing him thinking about T. H. Huxley, and
ERNEST. (This is the epigram.) Tea cups! Life, Crichton, is like a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink, the sooner we reach the dregs.
CRICHTON (obediently). Thank you, sir.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have had this thought, this seemed like a nice template for a story, but certainly not a very full story in and of itself. There's absolutely no depth. And yes, I understand that it's supposed to be a comedy (of sorts) and that comedic works don't always have to be a
In this one J.M. Barrie (of Peter Pan fame!) tells the story (in play form) of an English family and a few of their servants, who get stranded on a deserted island for two years. The interesting part is the idea that in England the aristocracy was in charge and the servants loyally followed orders f
প্রথম অঙ্কের উডহাউজিপনা দ্বিতীয় অঙ্ক শুরু হইতে না হইতেই বার্নার্ডশয়ী এবং ভয়ংকর হয়ে ওঠে। আর এই কারণেই প্রথম দৃশ্য নাকানে হাসি ছাড়া পাঠকেরে আর কিছু না দিলেও- দয়াল উডহাউজের কারবার স্বয়ং তিনি ছাড়া আর কে পারেন - একটু পরেই কাহিনীতে ক্রমাগত মাংশ জমতে থাকে।
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A recent discussion in one of my groups rekindled my interest in the several plays I studied in high school, all of which made enough of an impression on me that I haven't forgotten them to this day. This was one of those, written by the author of Peter Pan (which I've never read; but like virtually
It was a fun change to read a play (something that I haven't done since high school Shakespeare--and of that experience I have no fond memories.) This play felt small but thoughtful and effortlessly humorous, though it took a while to pull me in (and even then I felt no special attachments to some o