Shadowplay

The Resource Shadowplay
Label
Shadowplay
Statement of responsibility
Joseph O'Connor
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write Dracula, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published"--
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
EBLCP
Dewey number
823.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6065.C558
LC item number
S53 2020eb
Literary form
novels
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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Context of Shadowplay

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