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Charles Courtly and his companion Dazzle travel to Oak Hall, where Charles disguises himself as Augustus Hamilton and courts Grace, who is promised to his father, Sir Harcourt. Sir Harcourt falls for the spirited Lady Gay, but attempted elopements and deceptions are interrupted; after Charles’s creditors catch up with him, Sir Harcourt accepts his son’s marriage to Grace.
Irish immigrant Terence O'Halloran leaves a life of crime to become an amateur detective, facing counterfeiter Mordie Solomons. The play was first written as a burlesque of sensational drama before Brougham revised it into a more plausible, though still improbable, piece.
Charles Courtly and his companion Dazzle travel to Oak Hall, where Charles disguises himself as Augustus Hamilton and courts Grace, who is promised to his father, Sir Harcourt. Sir Harcourt falls for the spirited Lady Gay, but attempted elopements and deceptions are interrupted; after Charles’s creditors catch up with him, Sir Harcourt accepts his son’s marriage to Grace.
Irish immigrant Terence O'Halloran leaves a life of crime to become an amateur detective, facing counterfeiter Mordie Solomons. The play was first written as a burlesque of sensational drama before Brougham revised it into a more plausible, though still improbable, piece.