Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated
the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century.
As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic
pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant
psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of
spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving
anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen
Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences
included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every
aspect of the performance. 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, that
is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to
create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges
not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson,
Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence
on the twentieth-century theatre.
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