This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage.
This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage.
Contents: Introduction Richard Foulkes; The chief and his champion: Irving and J.L. Toole Michael Read; 'He danced he did not merely walk - he sang he by no means merely spoke': Irving theatricality and the modernist theatre Jim Davis; Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: a working partnership Katharine Cockin; The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: the case of Hall Caine's Mahomet Kristan Tetens; Embodiment of the king: Henry Irving's King Arthur Doug Kirshen; Sins of the fathers: Dostoevsky and the murders of Henry and Laurence Irving Laurence Senelick; Irving and his scenic artists Jeffrey Richards; 'Henry and 250 supers': Irving Robespierre and the staging of the revolutionary crowd Jean Chothia; Serenade in a gondola: music and interpolated action in Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice Stephen Cockett; Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Henry Irving's Macbeth Kenneth Delong; The matter with Irving: Bernard Shaw and Irving reconsidered L.W. Conolly; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction Richard Foulkes; The chief and his champion: Irving and J.L. Toole Michael Read; 'He danced he did not merely walk - he sang he by no means merely spoke': Irving theatricality and the modernist theatre Jim Davis; Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: a working partnership Katharine Cockin; The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: the case of Hall Caine's Mahomet Kristan Tetens; Embodiment of the king: Henry Irving's King Arthur Doug Kirshen; Sins of the fathers: Dostoevsky and the murders of Henry and Laurence Irving Laurence Senelick; Irving and his scenic artists Jeffrey Richards; 'Henry and 250 supers': Irving Robespierre and the staging of the revolutionary crowd Jean Chothia; Serenade in a gondola: music and interpolated action in Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice Stephen Cockett; Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Henry Irving's Macbeth Kenneth Delong; The matter with Irving: Bernard Shaw and Irving reconsidered L.W. Conolly; Bibliography; Index.
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