Sir Henry Irving

Standard Name: Irving, Sir Henry

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Robins
Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER 's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Sir Henry Irving . According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
She had planned The School For Saints as a play for Henry Irving before reconceiving it as a novel, and had travelled in Normandy and the Paris area, where it is set, to get the...
Textual Production Frances Sarah Hoey
The letters were lengthy, running between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and covered diverse topics including politics, society and fashion, and particularly contemporary literature and drama. FSH is enthusiastic about Sir Henry Irving , but describes...
Textual Production Edith Craig
EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated).
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...
Textual Production Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A stage adaptation as Waterloo, starring Henry Irving , was a great success in 1895.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features T. S. Eliot
Most of the poems, except the first and last, draw the portrait of an individual cat, often humanised yet still feline, many of them ingeniously adapted to some specialised way of life. Gus the theatre...
Reception John Oliver Hobbes
After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH invited by Gladstone to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry purchased the acting rights to the...
Publishing Christopher St John
CSJ contributed several pieces to the Green Sheaf, a magazine founded by Pamela Colman Smith in 1903. After Sir Henry Irving died, on 13 October 1905 (an event which indirectly triggered her career of...
politics Christopher St John
After seeing police surround a suffrage demonstration outside a memorial service for Henry Irving (one of Ellen Terry 's lovers), CSJ became a suffragist and an active campaigner.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
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Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
121
Occupation Sarah Grand
SG left on a lecturing tour in the USA, travelling with theatre people Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry , as well as lecture-tour manager Major James Burton Pond .
Major Pond (1838-1903) also...
Occupation Edith Craig
EC , aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre ; her mother, Ellen Terry , and famous actor Henry Irving played the leads.
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
181-3
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
38
Occupation Edith Craig
EC worked with Henry Irving 's Lyceum Company even before she became a regular member of the company in 1890.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
39
St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller.
10
Occupation Edith Craig
EC both performed in and made the costumes for Henry Irving 's Lyceum Theatre production of Victorien Sardou 's Robespierre.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
41, 218
St John, Christopher. “Biographical Note”. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard, 1stst ed, Frederick Muller.
10
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK and her husband kept up the Kemble family tradition with private theatricals. She also continued to attend the London theatre: when she first saw on stage a young unknown called Henry Irving , she...
Occupation Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom...

Timeline

26 December 1867: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first...

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26 December 1867

Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...

31 August 1878: Henry Irving was annouced as the new manager...

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31 August 1878

Henry Irving was annouced as the new manager of the Lyceum Theatre ; Mrs Sidney Frances Cowell Bateman had managed it since the death of her husand, Colonel Hezekiah Bateman , in March 1875.

30 December 1878: Henry Irving and Ellen Terry began their...

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30 December 1878

Henry Irving and Ellen Terry began their successful stage partnership at the Lyceum Theatre in London by starring opposite one another in Hamlet.

1 November 1879: The Lyceum Theatre produced a successful...

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1 November 1879

The Lyceum Theatre produced a successful revision of The Merchant of Venice starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry .

1882: The Lyceum company set out on the first international...

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1882

The Lyceum company set out on the first international theatre tour of North America.

1883: Actor Henry Irving declined a knighthood;...

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1883

Actor Henry Irving declined a knighthood; the first female actress did not receive a D.B.E. for another 38 years.

1885: Henry Irving's famous production of Faust...

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1885

Henry Irving 's famous production of Faust opened at the Lyceum theatre at a cost of nearly £12,000.

1 December 1929: The British Actors' Equity Association, the...

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1 December 1929

The British Actors' Equity Association , the first trade union for professional actors, was founded by Ben Webster during a meeting held at the Duke of York's Theatre , London.

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