Lonsdale: Plays One
Includes the plays Aren’t We All?, The Last of Mrs Cheney, On Approval, Canaries Sometimes Sing

Edited and introduced by Clifford Williams A new edition preserving these witty and sophisticated society comedies written in the 1920s, when Lonsdale was at the height of his popularity in the West End, Broadway and throughout the repertory circuit. The Last of Mrs Cheney, in which the maid in a gang of burglar-servants gives up her criminal career to marry into aristocracy, is the best known of Lonsdale’s plays.

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Lonsdale: Plays One
Includes the plays Aren’t We All?, The Last of Mrs Cheney, On Approval, Canaries Sometimes Sing

Edited and introduced by Clifford Williams A new edition preserving these witty and sophisticated society comedies written in the 1920s, when Lonsdale was at the height of his popularity in the West End, Broadway and throughout the repertory circuit. The Last of Mrs Cheney, in which the maid in a gang of burglar-servants gives up her criminal career to marry into aristocracy, is the best known of Lonsdale’s plays.

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Lonsdale: Plays One

Lonsdale: Plays One

by Frederick Lonsdale
Lonsdale: Plays One

Lonsdale: Plays One

by Frederick Lonsdale

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Includes the plays Aren’t We All?, The Last of Mrs Cheney, On Approval, Canaries Sometimes Sing

Edited and introduced by Clifford Williams A new edition preserving these witty and sophisticated society comedies written in the 1920s, when Lonsdale was at the height of his popularity in the West End, Broadway and throughout the repertory circuit. The Last of Mrs Cheney, in which the maid in a gang of burglar-servants gives up her criminal career to marry into aristocracy, is the best known of Lonsdale’s plays.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781840020731
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/01/2000
Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Born in Jersey, he was known for his witty and sophisticated society comedies. He collaborated on operettas, including Maid of the Mountains (1916).
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