Evidence: | 'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a low note" until, for the female parts, "he changed his voice suddenly and climbed up into a key he could not sustain". This was Ellen Terry's description: she was present with her 11-year-old daughter, who found the performance irresistibly comical, as apparently did Irving ...' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1880 and 31 Dec 1880 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alfred Tennyson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Henry Irving Ellen Terry and daughter |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
Title: | The Cup |
Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3438 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Philip Waller | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 366-67 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 366-67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3438, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Quotation from Laurence Irving, Henry Irving: The Actor and his World (1989) 364-65. |
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