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	Henry Irving
		Henry Irving, whose original name was John Henry Brodribb, was born at Keinton, near Glastonbury, Somerset, on February 6, 1838.
		Irving’s lack of “weight” injured his representation of the character, as it certainly ruined his first performance of Othello in 1876, and again, though to a less extent, in 1881, when he and the American actor, Booth, played Othello and Iago alternately.
		Irving’s; and in spite of all the criticisms that were passed on the amount of attention lavished on accessories, it cannot justly be claimed that the mounting was allowed to supersede the acting, so long as the Lyceum was the scene of the Irving productions.
	www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /Irving.htm (2518 words)

	Henry Irving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Henry Brodribb Irving (February 6, 1838–October 13, 1905),(whose original name was John Brodribb), became better known as Sir Henry Irving.
		Irving was one of the most famous stage actors of all time.
		Irving was born at Keinton Mandeville in the English county of Somerset
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Irving (959 words)

	Henry Irving
		IRVING, HENRY (1838-1905), English actor, whose original name was John Brodribb, was born at Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset, on the 6th of February 1838.
		Fine assumptions in 1892 of the characters of Wolsey in Henry VIII and of King Lear were followed in 1893 by a striking and dignified performance of Becket in Tennyson's play of that name.
		Both on and off the stage Irving always maintained a high ideal of his profession, and in 1895 he received the honour of knighthood, the first ever accorded an actor.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/irving001.html (835 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Henry Irving (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Henry Irving 1838–1905, English actor and manager, originally named John Henry Brodribb.
		Irving managed the Lyceum Theatre, London, from 1878 to 1903, and with Ellen Terry as his leading lady, dominated the English stage.
		Irving was knighted in 1895, the first actor to be so honored, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/Irving-S.html (293 words)

	Sir Henry Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Somerset in 1838, the year of Victoria’s Coronation, Irving’s rise to prominent as an actor-manager was a slow and torturous one.
		Irving was also a man of letters with honorary doctorates from Cambridge, Dublin and Glasgow Universities.
		The Irving Society by recalling theatre in the age of Irving, aim to perpetuate his memory with their activities.
	www.theirvingsociety.org.uk /sir_henry_irving.htm (512 words)

	SIR HENRY IRVING - LoveToKnow Article on SIR HENRY IRVING
		The play ran for 150 nights.With Miss Bateman, Irving was seen in W. Willss Charles I.,and Eugene Aram, in Richelieu, and in 1874 in Hamlet.
		Hig Shylock was as much discussed as his Hamlet had been, the dignity with which he invested the Jew marking a departure from the traditional interpretation of the role, and pleasing some as much as it offended others.
		Irvings only subsequent production in London was Sardous Dante (1903), a vast spectacular drama, staged at Drury Lane.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IR/IRVING_SIR_HENRY.htm (837 words)

	A history of the Royal Lyceum Theatre under Henry Irving
		Under Sir Henry Irving at the close of the nineteenth century London's Royal Lyceum Theatre became the unofficial national theatre of England.
		Irving himself had played at the theatre for 7 years before taking over the lease; he'd been engaged by impresario H bateman in 1871.
		Irving resolved to play Shylock not as the traditional grotesque common at the time but as a man of dignity, proud and contemptuous but not evil inccarnate.Ellen revised her Portia in harmony with this, making her more robust and the play was a sensation, running for 7 months.
	ut.essortment.com /royallyceumthe_relu.htm (789 words)

	H. B. Irving (1870-1919) & Dorothea Baird (1875-1933) - Actors from the Golden Age of the Theatre
		H(enry) B(rodribb) Irving, the eldest son of Sir Henry Irving, was born in London on August 5, 1870.
		Henry Brodribb Irving died, at the age of 49, on October 17, 1919.
		After Sir Henry Irving's death in 1905, H B Irving established his own company, and, for the rest of her theatrical career, Dorothea Baird toured with her husband playing mainly repeats of Sir Henry Irving's best remembered performances.
	collectorspost.com /Baird.htm (1355 words)

	Biography of Henry Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Thomas, where the focus of the acting exercises was to pull actors away from the current "rant" style, and into a much more subdued naturalistic form of acting.
		As an actor, Henry Irving had many characteristics which initially were seen as faults and then, as he gained success, they came to be considered unique character traits.
		She says of Irving, "He always called himself the 'servant of the public' and as the servant of the public there was no subservience but leadership.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/carrirv.htm (1679 words)

	Speakers / Irving / University of Leicester
		Irving could play sanctity and horror with equal facility, and the paper will examine this phenomenon, as well as the undoubted hypnotic power Irving exercised over his audiences, performing as he did in an age when “mesmerism” and “magnetism” were taken up by scientist, practitioner, and showman alike.
		Irving was also a haunted actor, ideally suited in character and temperament to playing characters driven by fear and remorse and haunted by their impending fate, like Louis XI, Macbeth, Mathias, and Vanderdecken.
		Irving is arguably a prototype for the highly disciplined, physically expressive sort of actor that Craig, Meyerhold and other theorists envisaged and hoped to create in the early twentieth century.
	www.le.ac.uk /ee/irving/papers.html (4188 words)

	Sir Henry Irving
		Christened with the name John Henry Brodribb, by 1856 he had moved to Sunderland, changed his name to Henry Irving, and began his professional career as a travelling actor across northern England and Scotland.
		It was at the Lyceum that he began his partnership with Bram Stoker, and in August of 1878, when Irving finally took control of the theatre, he made Stoker the acting manager.
		Irving was a supporter of masonic charities, making regular donations to the two masonic schools and to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/irving_h/irving_h.html (245 words)

	EDWARD IRVING - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD IRVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Except in the case of a select few, Irvings preaching awakened little interest among the congregation of Chalmers, Chalmers himself, with no partiality for its bravuras and flourishes, comparing it to Italian music, appreciated only by connoisseurs ; but as a missionary among the poorer classes he wielded an influence that was altogether uniclue.
		This sudden leap into popularity seems to have been occasioned in connection with a veiled allusion to Irvings striking eloquence made in the House of Commons by Calming, who had been induced to attend his church from admiration of an expression in one of his prayers, quoted to him by Sir James Mackintosh.
		The writings of Edward Irving published during his lifetime were For the Oracles of God, Four Orations (1823); For Judgment to come (1823); Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed (1826); Sermons, andc.
	84.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IR/IRVING_EDWARD.htm (847 words)

	Macbeth
		Henry Irving’s company, with Ellen Terry as his leading lady, had been established in the Lyceum for a decade and was famous for his prestigious and lavish productions.
		Irving of course has his own clientèle for first nights as we do at the Savoy, and all stalls were promised.
		Henry Irving had neither required nor expected music of such complexity, and the more recondite parts of the score show an appreciation of nervous tension that was alien to any concept of production by Irving.
	math.boisestate.edu /GaS/other_sullivan/macbeth (1231 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Henry Irving
		In 1895 Irving was awarded the first theatrical knighthood and by the time he died in 1905, you could refer to acting as ‘a profession’.
		Irving was also quick to grasp the possibilities of new technology and use it to heighten dramatic effect.
		She was all quicksilver, speed and instinct, whilst Irving was intellectual, slow and more pedantic with oddities of pronunciation and movement.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/drama_tour/19th_century/managers_irving.php (516 words)

	applause southwest : archive:
		Caricature of Sir Henry Irving by WF Thomas.
		Henry is pictured standing, gesturing at the table and wearing pinc nez glasses on a chain.
		Photograph of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Hamlet and Ophelia in 1879.
	www.applausesw.org.uk /database/human.asp?id=11 (155 words)

	Biography for: Henry Irving
		John Henry Brodribb, alias Henry Irving, was an actor who became Director and Manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London.
		Irving appeared as Philip II of Spain in Tennyson's unsuccessful historical drama Queen Mary Tudor, which ran for twenty-three performances at the Lyceum Theatre from 18 April to 13 May 1876.
		Henry had a strange affection for the wrong pictures of himself...
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Irvi_H.htm (382 words)

	Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church
		It is thought that this fact, which had been a serious blow to his self-esteem, had only confirmed his belief that the world was not to improve and turned him toward supernaturalism.
		His intercourse with Henry Drummond (1786-1860), politician and co-founder of the Irvingite church, strengthened his convictions.
		Irving was in consequence led to a close study of the prophetical books, especially the Apocalypse, and to sermonizing upon them.
	victorianweb.org /religion/apocalypse/irvingite.html (463 words)

	Irving, Sir Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bibliography: See biographies by B. Stoker (1906), G. Craig (1930), C. Bingham (1978), and his grandson, L. Irving (1952); studies by A. Hughes (1981) and G. Rowell (1981).
		FORGOTTEN HEROES: EDWARD FOX; The actor on the actor-manager Sir Henry Irving.(Features)
		Burlesque dreams: American amusement, autobiography, and Henry Miller.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/i/irving-s1.asp (405 words)

	The Author as Sansculotte (Chapter 3)
		Irving's more conventional vocation initially provided him with the authority that Carlyle longed for.
		His sermons so powerfully affected his listeners that in 1821, when Carlyle had not even begun his career as a writer, Irving was invited to London, where he found a large and enthusiastic audience.
		It is only a short step from the self-deluded, like Irving and Fox, to those who intentionally delude others.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/carlyle/vandenbossche/3b.html (2062 words)

	Henry Irving biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Henry Brodribb Irving (February 6, 1838–October 13, 1905), better known as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of all time.
		He was born at Keinton Mandeville in the English county of Somerset, and worked as a clerk in London before becoming an actor.
		One of Irving's sons, Laurence Irving, was a dramatist.
	henry-irving.biography.ms (148 words)

	Irving, Henry -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Born John Henry Brodribb on Feb. 6, 1838, in Somerset, England, he was the son of Samuel, a salesman, and Mary, the daughter of a Cornish farming family.
		Born in Coventry and the mother of celebrated actor and theatrical theorist Gordon Craig, she was long associated with Henry Irving in one of theater's most famous partnerships.
		Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9327265?&query=washington (707 words)

	Henry VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Irving's production of Henry VIII ran for 204 performances at the Lyceum Theatre (London) from January 5 to July 30 and then again from October 1 until November 5.
		Henry Irving gave three performances of Henry VIII at the Lyceum (London) in July.
		Irving played Cardinal Wolsey and Genevieve Ward played Queen Katherine, with William Terriss as Henry VIII and Amy Coleridge as Anne Bullen (Wearing, I, 336-7).
	www.english.emory.edu /classes/players/henVIII.html (152 words)

	Contemporary Review: First knight of the stage - Henry Irving
		The best of his biographers, his grandson, Laurence Irving, surmises that he finally decided to accept a knighthood during, and because of, the first run of Joseph Comyns Carr's King Arthur, having dwelt upon the paradox that he, Mr.
		Systems and courts, titles and offices, have all their part in a complex and organised civilisation, and no man and no calling is particularly pleased at being compelled to remain outside a closed door...
		Few of the plays in which Irving starred are performed nowadays - and that is as it should be, for most of those he put on depended upon his presence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1553_v266/ai_17381430 (971 words)

	West Penwith Resources - Sir Henry Irving 1838-1905
		John Henry was born on 6 Feb 1838 to Samuel and Mary (née Behenna) Brodribb in Keinton-Mandeville in Somerset.
		SIR Henry Irving, or to give him his real name, John Henry Brodribb, was born near Bristol; but his mother was a member of the family of Behenna, a family that has lived at or near St. Ives for generations.
		That Irving was greatly attached to her and her family is proved by his frequent visits subsequently, and by his regard for his cousins, of whom he spoke as his “brother and sister.”
	west-penwith.org.uk /irving.htm (1501 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - Sir Henry Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Henry Brodribb (1838-1905) assumed the surname of Irving by royal licence in 1889.
		Irving was renowned for his performances in revivals of Shakespeare’s plays and became actor-manager at the Lyceum Theatre.
		An ivory crucifix which had belonged to Irving was presented to the Abbey in 1963.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/irving.htm (324 words)

	Henry Irving: A Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum.
		King, W.D. Henry Irving's Waterloo: Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men,War and History.
		Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry in America.
	www.victorianweb.org /mt/irving.html (67 words)

	19th Century Actor Autobiographies - Sir Henry Irving (By George Iles, Editor)
		Irving’s ’Mathias’ and ’Louis XI,’ are higher performances than his ’Shylock’ and ’Dorincourt,’ higher in imaginative tone and in adequacy of feeling and treatment.
		Irving’s addresses, “The Drama,” copyright by the United States Book Company, New York, were published in 1892.
		I remember that when she played Meg Merrilies I was cast for Henry Bertram, on the principle, seemingly, that an actor with no singing voice is admirably fitted for a singing part.
	www.authorama.com /19th-century-actor-autobiographies-6.html (1658 words)

	UMI :: Irving (Henry), The Life and Work of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The life and work of noted actor Sir Henry Irving is represented in 22 scrapbooks, collected and arranged by Percy Fitzgerald.
		Henry Irving: His Life and Characters, Illustrated by Scenes, Pictures, and Sketches Together With Criticisms by Clement Scott, Moy Thomas, Joseph Knight, Dutton Cook and others
		Irving began to earn his reputation as the greatest English actor of his time from his performances at the Lyceum Theatre in London, appearing in
	www.il.proquest.com /research/pd-product-Irving-Henry-313.shtml (229 words)

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