The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama

A Glance back--From 1820 to 1830--Kean and Macready--The Strolling Player--The Critics--Sheridan Knowles and _Virginius_--Douglas Jerrold--His Comedies--_The Rent Day_--_The Pri...

G. R. Sims--R. C. Carton--Haddon Chambers--The Independent Theatre and Matinee Performance--The Drama of To-morrow--A "Report of Progress"--The Public and the Actors-- Actor-Man...

G. R. Sims--R. C. Carton--Haddon Chambers--The Independent Theatre and Matinee Performances--The Drama of To-morrow--A "Report of Progress"--The Public and the Actors--Actor-Man...

First Performance of _Society_--Success of _Ours_, _Caste_, and _School_--How Robertson turned to account the Talent of his Actors, John Hare, Bancroft, and Mrs. Bancroft--Progr...

Ibsen made known to the English Public by Mr. Edmund Gosse--The First Translations--Ibsen acted in London--The Performers and the Public--Encounters between the Critics--Mr. Arc...

The Three Principal Dramatists of To-day--Sydney Grundy; his First Efforts--Adaptations: _The Snowball_, _In Honour Bound_, _A Pair of Spectacles_, _The Bunch of Violets_--His O...

The Vogue of Burlesque--Burnand's _Ixion_--H. J. Byron--The Influence of Burlesque upon the Moral Tone of the Stage--Marie Wilton's _debut_--A Letter from Dickens--Founding of t...

Henry Arthur Jones; his First Works--His Melodramas--_Saints and Sinners_--The Puritans and the Theatre--The Two Deacons; The Character of Fletcher--_Judah_--_The Crusaders_; Ch...

Macready's Withdrawal from the Stage--The Enemies of the Drama in 1850: Puritanism; the Opera; the Pantomime; the "Hippodrama"--French Plays and French Players in England--Actor...

Is it well to imitate Shakespeare?--The Death of the Classical Drama--Herman Merivale and the _White Pilgrim_--Wills and his Plays: _Charles the First_, _Claudian_--Tennyson as...

The Three Publics--The Disappearance of Burlesque and Decadence of Pantomime--Increasing Vogue of Farce and Melodrama--Improvement in Acting--The Influence of our French Actors-...

Shakespeare again--From Macready to Irving; Phelps, Fechter, Ryder, Adelaide Neilson--Irving's _Debut_--His Career in the Provinces, and Visit to Paris--The Role of Digby Grant-...

When Marie Wilton's company, during their first holiday, went on tour to Liverpool, they happened upon the autumn assizes. The young London barristers who followed the circuit m...

Two Portraits--Mr. Pinero's Career as an Actor--His Early Works--_The Squire_, _Lords and Commons_--The Pieces which followed, half Comedy, half Farce--_The Profligate_; its Suc...

But Paula! What a complex character is hers, and how true in all its aspects! How important to the delineation of this character, and how suggestive, is everything she says--eve...

First Performance of _Society_--Success of _Ours_, _Caste_, and _School_--How Robertson turned to account the Talent of his Actors, John Hare, Bancroft, and Mrs. Bancroft--Progr...

Shakespeare again--From Macready to Irving; Phelps, Fechter, Ryder, Adelaide Neilson--Irving's Debut--His Career in the Provinces, and Visit to Paris--The role of Digby Grand--T...

Ibsen made known to the English Public by Mr. Edmund Gosse-- The First Translations--Ibsen acted in London--The Performers and the Public--Encounters between the Critics--Mr. Ar...

Macready's Withdrawal from the Stage--The Enemies of the Drama in 1850: Puritanism; the Opera; the Pantomime; the "Hippodrama"--French Plays and French Players in England-- Acto...

The Three Publics--The Disappearance of Burlesque and Decadence of Pantomime--Increasing Vogue of Farce and Melodrama-- Improvement in Acting--The Influence of our French Actors...

Henry Arthur Jones; his First Works--His Melodramas--_Saints and Sinners_--The Puritans and the Theatre--The Two Deacons: the Character of Fletcher--_Judah_--_The Crusaders_: Ch...

The Vogue of Burlesque--Burnand's _Ixion_--H. J. Byron--The Influence of Burlesque upon the Moral Tone of the Stage--Marie Wilton's Debut--A Letter from Dickens--Founding of the...

A Glance back--From 1820 to 1830--Kean and Macready--The Strolling Player--The Critics--Sheridan Knowles and _Virginius_--Douglas Jerrold--His Comedies--_The Rent Day_--_The Pri...

Is it well to imitate Shakespeare?--The Death of the Classical Drama--Herman Merivale and the _White Pilgrim_--Wills and his Plays: _Charles the First_, _Claudian_--Tennyson as...

The Three Principal Dramatists of To-day--Sydney Grundy; his First Efforts--Adaptations: _The Snowball_, _In Honour Bound_, _A Pair of Spectacles_, _The Bunch of Violets_--His O...

Two Portraits--Mr. Pinero's Career as an Actor--His Early Works--_The Squire, Lords and Commons_--The Pieces which followed, Half-Comedy, Half-Farce--_The Profligate_; its Succe...