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Sir Henry Irving: Theatre, Culture and Society
A book about Sir Henry Irving.
Henry Irving
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Sir Henry Irving (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Sir Henry Irving "If I have in any way deserved commendation, I am proud that it is as an actor that I have won it." - Henry Irving. The curtain of the mid-Victorian theatre rang up; and, at its slow uprising, discovered to the eyes of an astonished generation its greatest living tragedian. There stepped straight out of the world of romance, before the flare of the footlights of London town, stalking there across with tragic nervous stride, a tall slender figure that bore a dark sad face, and mouthed his mother-tongue with deliberate meaning, so that each spoken syllable took on its utmost value, each simplest phrase a full significance. Here strode a very evoker of the lurid, t...
Increasing Longevity
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