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One of Jacobs's popular stories about sailors on land, The Boatswain's Mate (aka The Bosun's Mate) sees an 'avaricious old rascal get up a sham burglary in order to win a buxom widow and secure a nice little business' ('A Master of Craft.' Leader 30 December 1905, p.32)
Adaptations
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The Amateur Burglar
1906
single work
drama
humour
A dramatised version of W. W. Jacobs' short story, The Boatswain's Mate (aka The Bosun's Mate), in which an avaricious old rascal gets up a sham burglary in order to win a buxom widow and secure a nice little business' ('A Master of Craft.' Leader 30 December 1905, p.32).
In his adaptation Curtis retained much of the original story's dramatic outline and 'trend of the dialogue," but collapsed the events, which takes place over two days, into the time played out on stage.
Notes
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The story appears in Jacob's 1905 collection, Captains All (published in London by Charles Scribner and Sons).
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