''The Cabinet Minister'' is an 1890
comedy play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy endin ...
by the British writer
Arthur Wing Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 185523 November 1934) was an English playwright and, early in his career, actor.
Pinero was drawn to the theatre from an early age, and became a professional actor at the age of 19. He gained experience as a supp ...
. A
cabinet minister
A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, â ...
spends well beyond his means, leading to massive debts.
[Booth p.106]
References
Bibliography
* Booth, Michael R. ''Prefaces to English nineteenth-century theatre''. Oxford University Press.
* Ousby, Ian. ''The Cambridge guide to literature in English''. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
External links
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Plays by Arthur Wing Pinero
1890 plays
West End plays
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