by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Drama · Adventure · The Stage

Abstract

A comic opera libretto begun by J.M. Barrie and completed by Conan Doyle, with music by Ernest Ford, staged at the Savoy Theatre in 1893. It follows schoolgirl schemes, a priggish ‘good girl’ who tattles on her friends, and a golf-course elopement plot near a university town.

Connections

Forms & Genres: Comedy, Verse Drama Themes & Concepts: Hypocrisy, Satire of Society Settings: Oxford Archetypes: Fool