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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 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A stage adaptation as Waterloo, starring Henry Irving
, was a great success in 1895. |
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. 233 |
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. 181 Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 121 |
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... |
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... |
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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