Jones, Henry Arthur (20 Sept. 1851) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...An important figure at the turn of the century, he has been overshadowed by his contemporaries Pinero and Wilde and his friend Shaw , who regarded him highly. Ian Clarke Richard A. Cordell , Henry Arthur Jones and the Modern Drama (1932) Doris Arthur Jones , The Life and Letters of Henry Arthur Jones (1930) F. M. Northend , Henry Arthur Jones and the Dramatic Renascence in England ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) Playwright, who made his name in London with a melodrama, The Silver King ( 1882 ), written in collaboration with Henry Herman. A friend and contemporary of Arthur Pinero , Jones was a prolific playwright, who did much to re‐establish serious themes in the theatre, and fought for the abolition of censorship. His finest work included The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ), The Liars ( 1897 ), Mrs Dane's Defence ( 1900 ), and The Lie ( 1923...
Jones, Henry Arthur (1851–1929) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) Born in Buckinghamshire, he left school at 12, and worked as a draper's assistant and commercial traveller before his first play was staged in Exeter in 1878 . He made his name in London with a melodrama, The Silver King ( 1882 ), written in collaboration with Henry Herman. As a young man he was greatly encouraged by G. B. Shaw and Max Beerbohm . A friend and contemporary of Arthur Pinero , Jones was a prolific playwright, who did much to re‐establish serious themes in the theatre. His finest work included The Case of...
Jones, Henry Arthur (1851–1929) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ), playwright . Along with Pinero and Shaw , a leading English dramatist of his day, he was an advocate of the tautly constructed problem play. Jones made his reputation in America as in England with his collaboration with Henry Herman , The Silver King ( 1883 ). On his own he later wrote such notable successes as The Middleman ( 1890 ), The Dancing Girl ( 1891 ), The Bauble Shop ( 1894 ), The Masqueraders ( 1894 ), The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ), The Rogue's Comedy ( 1896 ), The Liars ( 1898 ), and ...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) English playwright . After A Clerical Error in 1879 , he wrote nine plays in the three years before his first real success, The Silver King ( 1882 ), written in collaboration with Henry Herman for Wilson *Barrett . It was less sensational and more natural in *dialogue than most *melodramas , and it withstood revivals in the 1990s at *Chichester and the *Shaw Festival in Canada. Jones was a natural anti-Ibsenite, and he and Herman wrote a version of *Ibsen 's A Doll's House called Breaking a Butterfly ( 1884...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ), English dramatist, whose first London production, after several of his one-act plays had been performed in the provinces, was A Clerical Error ( 1879 ) staged by Wilson Barrett , who later made an immense success in The Silver King ( 1882 ), a melodrama written by Jones in collaboration with Henry Herman which was many times revived. Although regarded by his contemporaries as one of the new school of dramatists whose plays belonged to the so-called ‘theatre of ideas’, it was the melodramatic element rather than the...
Jones, Henry Arthur Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ), British dramatist , born in Grandborough, Buckinghamshire, the son of a farmer; he left school early to become a draper's assistant and a commercial traveller. In 1878 he gave up regular employment to try his luck as a writer, had A Clerical Error performed in London the following year, and scored a huge success with the melodrama The Silver King in 1882 . Gradually, he established himself as a major figure in the late nineteenth-century theatre, second only to Pinero as an exponent of the well-made play. He wrote...
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Eileen Cottis
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) English playwright. Jones was born in Buckinghamshire of Welsh working-class descent; he worked from the age of 12, largely as a commercial traveller. He was a determined autodidact, and in spite of his religious dissenting background he attended the theatre avidly and wrote unpublished plays. After the production of A Clerical Error at the Royal Court Theatre in 1879 , he intrepidly became a full-time playwright. He wrote nine plays in the three years before his first real success, The Silver King ( 1882 ), written in...
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) British dramatist The Silver King ( 1882 ) Drama Saints and Sinners ( 1884 ) Drama Judah ( 1890 ) Drama The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ) Drama The Liars ( 1897 ) Drama Mrs Dane's Defence ( 1900 ) ...
Henry Arthur Jones 1851–1929 and Henry Herman 1832–94 Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Henry0Arthur Henry Arthur Jones 1851 – 1929 and Henry Herman 1832 – 94 English dramatist s O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. The Silver King (1907) act 2, sc. 4 Put back Thy universe give me ...
Henry Arthur Jones 1851–1929 and Henry Herman 1832–94 Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0HenryArthur Henry Arthur Jones 1851 – 1929 and Henry Herman 1832 – 94 English dramatist s O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. The Silver King (1907) act 2, sc. 4 Put back Thy universe give me ...
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Richard Duke of York Reference library
Randall Martin, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...on Arthur Brooke ’s The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet ( 1562 ). Shakespeare’s portrayal of York’s torment in 1.4 seems to allude to Passion scenes dramatized in various mystery cycles. Synopsis: 1.1 The victorious Yorkists seize the throne and are confronted by Henry and his supporters. They dispute each other’s title to the crown. Under threat, Henry agrees to disinherit his son Prince Edward in favour of York and his heirs on condition that York ceases the civil war and allows Henry to remain King for his lifetime. Margaret denounces Henry’s...
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster Reference library
Randall Martin, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Warren (Oxford, 2003) Some representative criticism Berry, Edward I. , Patterns of Decay: Shakespeare’s Early Histories (1975) Brockbank, J. P. , ‘The Frame of Disorder: Henry VI ’, in John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris (eds.), Early Shakespeare (1961) Craig, Hugh , and Kinney, Arthur F. (eds.), Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (2009) Jones, Emrys , The Origins of Shakespeare (1977) Potter, Lois , ‘Recycling the Early Histories: “The Wars of the Roses” and “The Plantagenets” ’, Shakespeare Survey , 43 (1991) Pugliatti...
Venus and Adonis Reference library
Michael Dobson and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
... In Hyder Rollins , The Poems (New Variorum, 1938); The Narrative Poems ed. Maurice Evans (Penguin, 1989); The Poems ed. John Roe (New Cambridge, 1992); The Complete Sonnets and Poems , ed. Colin Burrow (Oxford, 2002); The Poems , ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones and H. R. Woudhuysen (Arden, 3rd series, 2008) Some representative criticism Bradbrook, M. C. , in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry (1951) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor , in Biographia literaria (1817) Hulse, Clark , Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic (1981)...
16 The History of Illustration and its Technologies Reference library
Paul Goldman
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...poet William Allingham , with wood engravings after John Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Arthur Hughes . Almost at a stroke a new kind of illustration, which was powerful in execution, intellectual in approach, and essentially realistic in the way faces and bodies were depicted, came to the fore. Rossetti’s beautiful image ‘Maids of Elfen-Mere’ set the standard, not only encouraging other Pre-Raphaelites, such as Holman Hunt and Edward Burne-Jones, to make increasingly bold designs, but also spurring the group known today as the ‘Idyllic School’ to...
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