1875-2013 Actors Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, 12 Theatre Items

Description: TWELVE items of note here directed at the life and work of English actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry and the Irish writer and stage manager Bram Stoker and their association with London's famous Lyceum Theatre in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, etc. Outstanding Items Include: Appleton's Journal (NY) for 24 July 1875. See photo #16. This is an unsigned column in their "Literary Notes" feature offering a detailed description of the story of Henry Irving's collaboration with English Poet Laureate, then at the height of his fame, Lord Tennyson who had asked Irving to suggest adaptations that might allow his recent drama, "Queen Mary" to be presented at London's Lyceum Theatre. This is an item of some interest. Irving edited and re-arranged the work for the stage, much to Lord Tennyson's approval. The London weekly Athenaeum for 26 February 1887. Complete issue is in very good condition. This number offers almost a full column eyewitness report of "Mr. [Henry] Irving's Reading of 'Hamlet' [at the Birkbeck Institute]." See photo #9 for the opening commentary. Irving's reading is described in detail and the reporter notes that Irving seems to have moved his audience at the Birkbeck, reading the "greater part" of Shakespeare's play, even more so than in his acclaimed performances of the play at the Lyceum Theatre. This particular issue of the weekly also contains reviews of new works here first translated from the Russian into English by Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) and Feodor Dostoevsky (Injury and Insult). WITH The Athenaeum (London) for 23 July 1887. The "Drama" report for this week includes a detailed notice of the yearly closing act at the Lyceum Theatre and Henry Irving's "address" to the audience followed by his celebrated performance (with Ellen Terry and others) as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. See photo #15. WITH An original complete issue of the New York Critic for 26 August 1893. This number offers a half page essay in review of the first edition (published by the Anglo-American Publishing Company) of Irving's The Drama: Addresses by Henry Irving. See photo #8. Irving here collects four addresses related to acting and the business of the drama, including titles and dates that include: "The Stage As It Is" (Edinburgh 1881); "The Art of Acting" (Harvard, 1885); "Four Great Actors" (Oxford, 1886); and, another address, also given under the title "The Art of Acting" in Edinburgh again in 1891. There is a single stamp to the margin of the front paper wrapper. 15 pages. See photo #7. WITH Another rare single original issue of The Critic (NY) for 24 March 1894. This is a complete 15 page issue of the literary weekly in very good condition. In original printed paper wrappers. I've never seen another copy for sale. Outstanding number includes, among other essays, reports and reviews, the weekly's Boston correspondent Charles E.L. Wingate's "Boston Letter," which opens with a long paragraph on the excitement generated by the distinguished English actor Henry Irving's second visit to Cambridge and Harvard. It's followed by a full page 1/2 headed "Henry Irving at Harvard Address," which was delivered by Irving, to great acclaim, at the Sanders Theatre on 15 March, and "revised by the author, for [publication in] the Critic." It's headed "Individuality." This is a rare copy, indeed! See photo #5 for the front cover of the issue, & photo #6 for a glimpse of the opening page of Irving's address. WITH The Athenaeum (London) for 21 October 1905. 27 page issue is complete and in very good condition. I recently rescued this issue from an old and damaged bound volume of the notable literary weekly. The next to last page of the number, bordered in black, prints the obituary of Irving (2/3 of a page). He was at the time of his death one of the most famous and formidable actors and managers to ever grace the English stage. See photos #3 & #4. WITH The Eclectic Magazine (NY) for November 1905. This number features a full page frontispiece photograph of Henry Irving in costume for the last role he ever played, in a performance of Becket. It's followed later in the issue by a three page obituary of the actor by Fergus Crane. Part of an old and hard to find bound volume of the New York monthly, July to December 1905. Old Library volume has some wear to the buckram boards, but is nice and clean internally. See photos #9, #10 & #11. WITH An article simply headed "Sir Henry Irving" (8 pages) from the Atlantic Monthly, 1905. This original essay neatly rescued by me from an old damaged number of the monthly. It's by the notable award winning journalist and teacher Talcott Williams. On the life and works of Irving. See photo #14 WITH The Dial (Chicago Literary Semi-Monthly) for 16 November 1905. Ingram A. Pyle here pens a longer (2 and 1/2 pages) essay headed "Sir Henry Irving and His Art." A work of some interest following the passing of Irving a month earlier. Hard to find, complete issue. Very good condition. 35 pages. See photo #12 for the opening of the essay. WITH The New Yorker for July 1952. The poet, essayist and critic W.H. Auden pens one of the best estimates of the career of Henry Irving that we have. Enthralled by a new biography of Irving by his grandson, Laurence (Henry Irving: The Actor and His World) Auden offers an informed essay (2 1/2 pages) detailing Irving's acclaimed work on the English stage, his methods, his triumphs and failures, his Shakespearean legacy, his treatment in critical circles (Henry James & Bernard Shaw), and much more. WITH The London Review of Books for 1 January 2009. David Edgar here pens a longer essay in review of Michael Holroyd's A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families. Published by Chatto. See photo #2. AND The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 25 January 2013. This number features a color cover portrait of Henry Irving as depicted by artist Frank Chesworth in 1899. The number opens with an extended feature essay by Tracy C. Davis headed "Before the Count: Bram Stoker, Henry Irving and the Irishman's Management of the Greatest Theatre of the Era." This in review of the Catherine Wynne-edited 2 volume Bram Stoker and the Stage: Reviews, Reminiscences, Essays and Fiction. See photo #1. OTHER COLLECTIONS OF LITERATURE IN MY EBAY STORE. HERE YOU CAN FIND: SOME FIRST BOOK EDITIONS, HARD TO FIND LITERARY PERIODICALS OF ALL KINDS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, CRITICAL STUDIES, EPHEMERA, ETC. COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Graham Greene, William H. Gass, William Logan, Thom Gunn, Hilary Mantel, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Martin Heidegger, Allen Ginsberg, Cyril Connolly, William Wordsworth, Modernist Literature and Poetry, Paul De Man, Karen Solie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Muriel Spark, Mark Strand, Margaret Atwood, Jose Saramago, C.K. Williams, Early Christianity, Mary Karr, Robert Duncan, Naguib Mahfouz, Patricia Highsmith, Elfriede Jelinek, David Ferry, Robert Pinsky, David Jones, Paul Celan, Bruce Chatwin, Walter de la Mare, Henry Adams, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Crabbe, David Foster Wallace, John Cowper Powys, Richard G. Stern, Edward Said, James Baldwin, Don DeLillo, Clarice Lispector, etc. OTHERS IN PREPARATION INCLUDE: Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Reznikoff, Max Beerbohm, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, George Meredith, Georges Simenon, Hamlin Garland, Roberto Bolano, Michael Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Mew, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Charles Simic, W.H. Hudson, Fernando Pessoa, Henry James, W.S. Merwin, Stanley Kunitz, Francine Prose, Hart Crane, W.G. Sebald and Norman Rockwell.

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