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Plays by William Hooker Gillette

Plays by William Hooker Gillette
All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes

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  • Date Published: April 1983
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521284318

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  • The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. Gillette also adapted foreign plays for the American stage and wrote strong melodramas and spy stories in which he frequently appeared himself. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899). Gillette's sure grasp of the keys to theatrical success, together with his technical innovations, makes him an interesting and important theatre figure. In his time, as playwright and player, he achieved a new combination of melodramatic suspense with a cool, understated acting style. These three plays represent the range of his dramatic talent.

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    • Date Published: April 1983
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521284318
    • length: 288 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.43kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    All the Comforts of Home
    Secret Service
    Sherlock Holmes.

  • Authors

    Don B. Wilmeth

    Rosemary Cullen

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