The Duplicity of Hargraves TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text "This was a young man named Henry Hopkins Hargraves--every one in the house addressed him by his full name--who was engaged at one of the popular vaudeville theaters. But Mr. Hargraves was ambitious, and often spoke of his great desire to succeed in legitimate comedy." COMMENTS: Visual Text Steeped in the ways and wearing the fashions of the Old South, Major Pendleton Talbot of Mobile and his daughter Lydia move to a boarding house in Washington D.C., where the major befriends and trusts Henry Hopkins Hargraves, an actor -- the only one who doesn't make fun of Talbot behind his back. Despite running out of money, the Talbots go to the theater, where they see Hargraves portraying a gross caricature of Talbot, who feels betrayed. Contrite, Hargraves offers him a few hundred dollars, which is refused in a huff. Then Mose, an old black former slave of the Talbots, shows up and pays him an old family debt of $300. But "Mose" actually was the talented mimic, Hargraves! This story teaches that you never know from where goodness will appear and could make an entertaining one-act. CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheDuplicityofHargraves.pdf
