Sir Henry Irving, by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A

About this eBook

Author

Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834-1925

Title

Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Credits

MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 64575

Release Date

February 16, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.SIR HENRY IRVING
5. 5.CHAPTER I. 1838-1856. SCHOOL-DAYS—EARLY TASTE FOR THE STAGE—FIRST APPEARANCE.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. 1857-1859. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH THEATRES.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. 1866. THE ST. JAMES’S THEATRE—‘HUNTED DOWN’—THE NEW VAUDEVILLE THEATRE—‘THE TWO ROSES.’
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. 1871. ‘THE BELLS’—WILLS’S ‘CHARLES I.’
9. 9.CHAPTER V. 1874. ‘HAMLET’—‘OTHELLO’—‘MACBETH’—DEATH OF ‘THE COLONEL’—‘QUEEN MARY.’
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. 1878. THE NEW MANAGER OF THE LYCEUM—MISS TERRY—HIS SYSTEM AND ASSISTANTS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. 1879. ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.’
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. 1880. ‘THE CORSICAN BROTHERS’ AND ‘THE CUP.’
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. 1881. ‘OTHELLO’ AND ‘THE TWO ROSES’ REVIVED.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. 1882. ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’—THE BANQUET.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. 1882. ‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’—AMERICAN VISIT ARRANGED.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. 1884. ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’—‘THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD’—OXFORD HONOURS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. 1887. ‘FAUST’—‘WERNER’—‘MACAIRE’—THE ACTOR’S SOCIAL GIFTS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. 1888. ‘MACBETH’—‘THE DEAD HEART’—‘RAVENSWOOD.’
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. 1892. ‘KING LEAR’—‘BECKET.’
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. 1893. ‘KING ARTHUR’—CORPORAL BREWSTER—HONOURS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. L’ENVOI.
22. 22.FOOTNOTES

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