Henry Irving's Waterloo : theatrical engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig : late-Victorian culture, assorted ghosts, old men, war, and history /... by King, W. D. (W. Davies)

Henry Irving at the Lyceum / George Taylor. by Taylor, George, 1906-

Reminiscences of a dramatic critic : with an essay on the art of Henry Irving / by Henry Austin Clapp. by Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904

Table of Contents: “…Sothersn, Sr -- The isolation of actors -- Charles Fechter -- Edwin Booth -- Tommaso Salvini -- Adelaide Neilson -- Memorable experiences of single plays and artists -- An American theatre privately endowed -- Henry Irving.…”

Medieval German lyric verse in English translation [by] J.W. Thomas. by Thomas, J. W. (John Wesley), 1916-1999

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Church and stage in Victorian England / Richard Foulkes. by Foulkes, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introit -- Heralds of change -- Censure and censorship -- Two professions -- Clerical attitudes -- Self-improvement -- Shakespeare -- From Passion play to pantomime -- The ancient universities -- Actresses -- Headlam, Hell and Hole -- Henry Arthur Jones and Wilson Barrett -- Henry Irving.…”

Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving / edited by Richard Schoch.

Table of Contents: “…Macready; Chapter 2 Edwin Booth: What They Also Saw When They Saw Booth's Hamlet; Chapter 3 Ellen Terry; Chapter 4 Henry Irving; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Stage to screen : theatrical origins of early film : David Garrick to D.W. Griffith / A. Nicholas Vardac. by Vardac, A. Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Realism, romance, and the development of the motion picture -- Theatres, staging methods, and the breakdown of nineteenth-century conventions -- The melodrama : cinematic conceptions and screen techniques -- Picture plays : the spectacle stage -- The photographic ideal : Henry Irving, David Belasco, Steele MacKaye -- Photographic realism : the birth of the film, 1895-1902 -- Pictorial fantasy : George Méliès -- Melodrama : the photoplay, 1902-1913 -- Realism and romance : D.W. …”

Great Shakespeare actors : Burbage to Branagh / Stanley Wells. by Wells, Stanley, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Edwin Booth -- 17. Henry Irving -- 18. Ellen Terry -- 19. Tommaso Salvini -- Times of Change -- 20. …”
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Then came each actor : Shakespearean actors, great and otherwise, including players and princes, rogues, vagabonds and actors motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and Gielgud and after / Bernard Grebanier. by Grebanier, Bernard D. N., 1903-1977

Table of Contents: “…Jordan -- Master Betty and other phenomena -- Kean -- Contemporaries of Kean -- William Macready, Edwin Forrest, and the Astor Place riot -- Edwin Thomas Booth -- Princesses of Denmark and other vagaries -- Samuel Phelps and Barry Sullivan -- Henry Irving and Ellen Terry -- Foreign actors play for English-speaking audiences -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Johnston Forbes-Robertson -- Jottings on some nineteenth-century actors -- Shakespeare and the silent cinema -- The twentieth century -- Gielgud and Olivier -- Some recent productions.…”

Melodrama.

Table of Contents: “…McConachie -- From comedy to melodrama : the transposition of a Polish theme / Halina Filipowicz -- La Dame aux Camélias : the myth revised / Susan Painter -- Exhuming Lady Audley : period melodrama for the 1990s / Joel H. Kaplan -- Henry Irving, the 'Dr. Freud' of melodrama / Denis Salter -- Strindberg's Oväder : melodrama pays a visit / Robert F. …”

Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

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Richard III : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / William Shakespeare ; edited by Thomas Cartelli. by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…Kean's Richard [Edmund Kean as Richard III at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London] / William Hazlitt -- [Henry Irving's Richard III] / George Bernard Shaw -- Performing as Gloucester / Scott Colley -- From Richard III in the Cinema / Saskia Kossak -- Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics / Barbara Hodgdon -- From Cinema and the Kingdom of Death: Loncraine's Richard III / Peter S. …”

The merchant of Venice / edited by William Baker and Brian Vickers.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Joseph Hatton, an interview with Henry Irving, 1884. -- Richard G. Moulton, Shakespeare's interweaving of plot, 1885. -- Helena Faucit, on acting Portia, 1885. -- M. …”
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Great Shakespeareans. edited by Adrian Poole [and five others].

Table of Contents: “…s Hamlet""; ""7 Ellen Terry ""; ""Early Shakespeare Roles""; ""Shakespeare at the Lyceum""; ""Post-Lyceum Shakespeare""; ""8 Henry Irving ""; ""A Theatrical Life""; ""Shakespeare on the Lyceum Stage""; ""Irvingâ€?…”
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Actors on acting ; the theories, techniques, and practices of the great actors of all times as told in their own words / Edited with introductions & biographical notes by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. by Cole, Toby, 1916-

Table of Contents: “…The heritage of actors ; Edmund Kean ; William Charles Macready ; Fanny Kemble ; George Henry Lewes ; Henry Irving ; Ellen Terry ; William Archer ; George Bernard Shaw ; Gordon Craig ; William Butler Yeats ; William Fay ; Harley Granville-Barker ; John Gielgud ; Michael Redgrave ; Laurence Olivier ; Paul Scofield ; Peter Brook ; Charles Marowitz -- Italy. …”

The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing / Christopher Innes, Maria Shevtsova. by Innes, Christopher, 1941-, Shevtsova, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Traditional staging and the evolution of the director; Classical Greek theatre: director as choreographer; From Greece to Classical Rome; Medieval European staging; Playwright-managers: Renaissance and early seventeenth-century theatre; The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Enlightenment and the actor-manager; Introducing scenery: Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg; Henry Irving: the nineteenth-century actor-manager; The transition from traditional staging; The German stage and the function of the Intendant…”
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Great Victorian lives : an era in obituaries / edited by Andrew Sanders.

Table of Contents: “…Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Humourist and mathematician: 'His chief title to fame will always rest on those jeux d'esprit which have won him so secure a place in the affections of readers for whom mathematics are ... the reverse of attractive.' 14 January 1898 -- William Ewart Gladstone, Statesman: 'The first of our regular statesmen who, nurtured in the old regime, stepped forth as the spokesman of the new.' 19 May 1898 -- Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Painter: 'He was as original as his art.' 17 June 1898 -- Otto von Bismarck, First Chancellor of Germany: 'One of the rare men who leave indelible marks on the world's history.' 30 June 1898 -- Helen Faucit, Actress: 'She could endow comparatively poor characters with at least temporary vitality.' 31 October 1898 -- Henry Tate, Businessman and philanthropist: 'A thank-offering for a prosperous business career.' 5 December 1899 -- John Ruskin, Art critic: 'The man who ... woke up the English people to a knowledge of what art really meant.' 20 January 1900 -- Sir Arthur Sullivan, Composer: 'A synonym for music in England.' 22 November 1900 -- Oscar Wilde, Dramatist: 'A paradoxical humour and a perverted outlook on life.' 30 November 1900 -- Dr Barnardo, Philanthropist: 'He professed always to legislate for the future.' 19 September 1905 -- Sir Henry Irving, Actor: 'His greatness lay in his brain, not in his feelings.' 13 October 1905 -- Josephine Butler, Social reformer: 'I love my country. …”
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