
Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum
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- SIR HENRY IRVING
- CHAPTER I. 1838-1856. SCHOOL-DAYS—EARLY TASTE FOR THE STAGE—FIRST APPEARANCE.
- CHAPTER II. 1857-1859. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH THEATRES.
- CHAPTER III. 1866. THE ST. JAMES’S THEATRE—‘HUNTED DOWN’—THE NEW VAUDEVILLE THEATRE—‘THE TWO ROSES.’
- CHAPTER IV. 1871. ‘THE BELLS’—WILLS’S ‘CHARLES I.’
- CHAPTER V. 1874. ‘HAMLET’—‘OTHELLO’—‘MACBETH’—DEATH OF ‘THE COLONEL’—‘QUEEN MARY.’
- CHAPTER VI. 1878. THE NEW MANAGER OF THE LYCEUM—MISS TERRY—HIS SYSTEM AND ASSISTANTS.
- CHAPTER VII. 1879. ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.’
- CHAPTER VIII. 1880. ‘THE CORSICAN BROTHERS’ AND ‘THE CUP.’
- CHAPTER IX. 1881. ‘OTHELLO’ AND ‘THE TWO ROSES’ REVIVED.
- CHAPTER X. 1882. ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’—THE BANQUET.
- CHAPTER XI. 1882. ‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’—AMERICAN VISIT ARRANGED.
- CHAPTER XII. 1884. ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’—‘THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD’—OXFORD HONOURS.
- CHAPTER XIII. 1887. ‘FAUST’—‘WERNER’—‘MACAIRE’—THE ACTOR’S SOCIAL GIFTS.
- CHAPTER XIV. 1888. ‘MACBETH’—‘THE DEAD HEART’—‘RAVENSWOOD.’
- CHAPTER XV. 1892. ‘KING LEAR’—‘BECKET.’
- CHAPTER XVI. 1893. ‘KING ARTHUR’—CORPORAL BREWSTER—HONOURS.
- CHAPTER XVII. L’ENVOI.
- FOOTNOTES
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