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Late Nineteenth-Century Drama
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How the poor live and horrible London. 1889; rptd New York 1984.
Living London. 1903; rptd as Edwardian London 4 vols New York
1990.
Among my autographs. 1904.
My life. Sixty years’ recollections of Bohemian London. 1917.
Prepare to shed them now: the ballads of George R. Sims. 1968.
[by]
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–94
See col 1688.
(Walter) Brandon Thomas 1848–1914
Licensing copies of the plays are located in BL.
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The colour-sergeant. C. (P’cess 26 Feb 1885). French 153 (copyr 1905);
Readex micro.
A Highland legacy. F. (Str 17 Nov 1888). French 143 (copyr 1898);
Readex micro.
The Lancashire sailor. C. (Terry’s 6 June 1891). French 142 (copyr
1898); Readex micro.
Charley’s aunt. F. (Bury St Edmund’s 29 Feb 1892; Roy 21 Dec 1892).
French no 470 (copyr 1935) (modernised 1933 by J. Brandon-
Thomas and W. D. Barnes-Brand); ed E. R. Wood 1969.
The queen of brilliants. O. (Lyc 8 Sep 1894). [1894] (lyrics); Readex
micro. From the Ger of T. Taube and L. Tuchs. Music by E.
Jakobowski.
See also Nicoll 5, pp. 595–6; Nicoll, English drama 1900–30, p. 985; and
Readex Index, p. 270. For performance details and casts, see Wearing,
London stage 1890–9; 1900–9; 1910–19.
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The Times 20 June 1914. Obituary.
Hibbert, H. G. A playgoer’s memories. 1920.
Brandon-Thomas, J. Charley’s aunt’s father: a life of Brandon
Thomas. 1955.
Stedman, J. General utility: Victorian author-actors from Knowles
to Pinero. Educational Theatre Jnl 24 1972. [jrs]
John Todhunter 1839–1916
Some playscripts are available in the Lord Chamberlain’s Collection, BL.
Collections
Essays by the late John Todhunter, with a foreword by Standish
O’Grady. 1920. Includes The thoery of the beautiful; Essays read
before ‘The sette of odd volumes’; An essay on essays; A riverside
walk; An essay in search of a subject; Murmurs from the
Hesperides; An unconsidered trifle; Some old singers.
Selections
The poets and poetry of the century. Ed. A. H. Miles 10 vols
[1891–7].
Selected poems. Ed D. L. Todhunter and A. P. Graves 1929.
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The theory of the beautiful. A ‘Saturday lecture’ delivered in the
Museum building, Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin 1872. Pam.
Alcestis. New York 1874; London 1879. Poem.
Laurella and other poems. 1876.
A study of Shelley. 1880.
Forest songs and other poems. 1881.
The true tragedy of Rienzi, tribune of Rome [in 5 acts and in prose
and verse]. 1881.
Prologue to ‘The Cenci’, a tragedy in 5 acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(Grand 7 May 1886). 1886; Shelley Soc pbns, ser 4, vol 3. Pam.
Helena in Troas. T. (Hengler’s 17 May 1886). 1886, 1886. Prepared in
collaboration with E. W. Godwin.
review: Theatre 1 June 1886.
Notes on Shelley’s unfinished poem, ‘The triumph of life’. 1887 (priv
ptd).
The banshee and other poems. 1888; 2nd edn Dublin 1891.
Shelley and the marriage question. 1889 (priv ptd).
A Sicilian idyll. Pastoral play. (Club theatre, Bedford Park 5 May
1890). 1890, 1891.
review: Athenaeum 26 Sep 1891.
How dreams come true. DSk. (Grosvenor Gallery 17 July 1890).
Bemrose [1890] (priv ptd).
The legend of Stauffenberg, a dramatic cantata by J. C. Culwick: the
poem by J. Todhunter. Dublin 1890.
The poison flower. DSk. (Vaud 15 June 1891). Based on Hawthorne’s
Rappacini’s daughter. 1891, 1927 (with Isolt of Ireland, by John
Todhunter, a legend in a prologue and three acts).
Cäcilchen at the piano: music as of the winds when they awake.
Poem. Spectator 10 June 1893.
The black cat. D. (OC 8 Dec 1893). 1895. Independent Theatre ser 4.
review: Archer, W. Theatrical ‘world’ for 1893.
An essay upon essays. Sette of odd vols, no 36. Folkard 1896 (priv ptd).
The life of Patrick Sarsfield, earl of Lucan; with a short narrative of
the principal events of the Jacobite war in Ireland. 1896. New
Irish lib vol 7; Dublin 1901.
review: Nation 62, 23 Jan 1896.
Maureen. Atheneaum 108, 29 Aug 1896. Poem.
Three Irish bardic tales. 1896, Chicago 1896, rptd New York 1978.
A riverside walk. 1898. Essay.
John Ruskin. Cornhill Mag 81, Mar 1900. Poem.
Blank-verse on the stage. Fortnightly Rev 77, Feb 1902.
Poetic drama and its prospects on the stage. Fortnightly Rev 77, Apr
1902.
Translations
Heine’s Book of songs. Tr Todhunter 1907.
Goethe’s Faust first part. Tr Todhunter, Oxford 1924.
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Obituary. The Times 27 Oct 1916.
Kunitz, S. J. British authors of the nineteenth century. New York 1936.
Moriarty, D. J. John Todhunter: child of the coming century. Unpbd
diss Univ of Wisconsin 1979. Contains bibliography and unpbd
works.
Woodfield, J. English Theatre in transition, 1881–1914. 1984. [dht]
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde,
‘Sebastian Melmoth’ 1854–1900
Wilde’s mss, notebooks and letters as well as corrected proofs and prompt
copies of some of his plays are scattered in a variety of public and private collections,
principally in England and the US. Among important institutional
holdings are those at Bristol Univ (Tree), BL (including the licensing copies of
Wilde’s plays in Lord Chamberlain’s Collection), Oxford (Ross), Harvard,
HRHRC, Lib of Congress, NYPL (including Arents, Berg and Billy Rose
Collections), Princeton, Pierpont Morgan, Rosenbach, Texas Christian Univ,
Yale, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Lib at UCLA, Trinity College
Dublin, and the Bodmer Lib in Geneva. Guides to a number of these
collections are listed in the following section.
Bibliographies, catalogues, reviews of research and general
reference
R., W. Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde. Books and Bookplates
5 1904–5.
Glaenzer, R. B. Catalogue of the library of Richard Butler Glaenzer.
New York 1905.
Mason, S. [C. S. Millard]. A bibliography of the poems of Oscar
Wilde. 1907.