Showing posts with label Henry Irving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Irving. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Marriage Question

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Victorian sexuality can be approached from so many directions, including (but not limited to) body image , sexual orientation , masturba...
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Friday, November 7, 2014

Who was Dracula?

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Who was Dracula? Ever since the novel was published in 1897, scholars and fans have been trying to answer this question. In honour of Bra...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

50 Random Things about Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker 1. Bram Stoker was a good dancer and especially liked to waltz. 2. Stoker was named after his father, a clerk at Dublin ca...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Why Writers Moved to London

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Bram Stoker’s Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906) is the closest thing we have to an autobiography of Stoker’s life. Moments, ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Wired Love and Thereby Hangs a Tale

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By the 1890s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle achieved considerable success, as the author of Sherlock Holmes, but was anxious to start writing somet...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks

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The Lyceum Theatre, in the 1890s, was best known for its stars: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. Irving cultivated a reputation for himse...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Faust in America

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For most of his life, Bram Stoker worked for the famous actor, Henry Irving. On many occasions, this work brought Stoker to America. As I...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Van Helsing meets Hamlet

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In spite of the fact that Bram Stoker's lasting fame is inextricably linked to Dracula, Stoker was most proud of and most dedicated ...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

The German Professor in Dracula

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Remember the German professor, Max Windschoeffel, in Dracula ? No? That's because there wasn't one. Bram Stoker wrote him out or, ra...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Dracula's Fingerprint

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Sir Henry Irving, Bram Stoker's employer, the occupation of most of his life, is popularly believed to be the inspiration for the char...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

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The man believed to have uttered the phrase: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was considered, by man...