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Shadowplay / Joseph O'Connor.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR6065.C558 S53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Joseph, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Actors--Fiction.
- Actors.
- Actresses--Fiction.
- Actresses.
- Creative ability--Fiction.
- Creative ability.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Fiction.
- Stoker, Bram.
- Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905--Fiction.
- Irving, Henry.
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928--Fiction.
- Terry, Ellen.
- Lyceum Theatre (London, England)--History--Fiction.
- Lyceum Theatre (London, England).
- London (England)--History--1800-1950--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905.
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 387 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2021.
- Summary:
- Set during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O'Connor. Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. As Irving's Lyceum theater grows in reputation, he first lures to his company a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker, and then entices the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theater inspire him to write Dracula, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published.
- Contents:
- Act I. Eternal love
- Act II. Do we not bleed?
- Act III. Arriving at Bradford
- Coda. Friday, 12th April, 1912.
- Notes:
- "A novel"--Jacket
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781609456986
- 160945698X
- OCLC:
- 1156240904
- Publisher Number:
- 99991375860
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