Henry Irving : a re-evaluation of the pre-eminent Victorian actor-manager /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2008. |
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| Description: | xiv, 212 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The nineteenth century series Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7359403 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The chief and his champion: Irving and J.L. Toole
- 'He danced, he did not merely walk - he sang, he by no means merely spoke': Irving, theatricality and the modernist theatre
- Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: a working partnership
- The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: the case of Hall Caine's Mahomet
- Embodiment of the king: Henry Irving's King Arthur
- Sins of the fathers: Dostoevsky and the murders of Henry and Laurence Irving
- Irving and his scenic artists
- 'Henry and 250 supers': Irving, Robespierre and the staging of the revolutionary crowd
- Serenade in a gondola: music and interpolated action in Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice
- Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Henry Irving's Macbeth
- The matter with Irving: Bernard Shaw and Irving reconsidered
- Bibliography
- Index
