That President Lincoln was assassinated watching the play adds an extra macabre dimension to its interest. Sothern improvised the role of Lord Dundreary to such effect that his performance became the rage on both the British and American stage.

Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin became a star vehicle by default when E. Dion Boucicault's The Corsican Brothers starred Charles Kean as telepathic twins and featured the famous stage-effect of the Corsican-trap. In Buckstone's Jack Sheppard, a spectacular and popular adaptation of Ainsworth's much dramatized novel, the rascal hero was played by the comedienne Mary Keeley. Each achieved its greatest fame through the talents of a particular star performer. Trilby and Other Plays is a new selection of English plays that had wide success on both sides of the Atlantic. Perennial Decay On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance (New Cultural Studies) by Liz Constable, Dennis Denisoff, Matthew. The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories by Dennis Denisoff, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins Paperback, 495 Pages, Published 2004 by Broadview Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55111-356-2, ISBN: 1-55111-356-2 Trilby (Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by George Du Maurier, Elaine Showalter, Dennis Denisoff Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953880-5, ISBN: 0-19-953880-8

The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present) by Dennis Denisoff Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-3-0, ISBN: 3-8

Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940 (1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Dennis Denisoff Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-9-1, ISBN: 9-7ĭog Years by Dennis Denisoff Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 2002 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88978-234-1, ISBN: 0-88978-234-2ĭecadent and Occult Works by Arthur Machen (Mhra Jewelled Tortoise) by Dennis Denisoff Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by Modern Humanities Research Association ISBN-13: 978-1-78188-217-7, ISBN: 1-78188-217-7

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