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Sardou on the English Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

George Rowell
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If by successful is meant widely performed, the most successful playwright in the English theatre between T. W. Robertson in the 1860s and A. W. Pinero in the 1890s was a Frenchman, Victorien Sardou. This apparent paradox can be elucidated not only by the list of English adaptations of Sardou which concludes this survey, but by noting some of the leading English actors who appeared in Sardou. They include Irving (Madame Sons-Gêne, Robespierre, Dante); the Bancrofts (Nos Intimes, Dora, Les Bourgeois de Pont-Arçy, Odette, Fédora); the Kendals (Les Pattes de Mouche, Nos Intimes, Dora, Maison Neuve); Wyndham (Rabagas, La Papillonne); Hare (Les Pattes de Mouche, Dora, La Tosca); Tree (Fédora); Forbes-Robertson (Dora, Les Bourgeois de Pont-Arçy); Hawtrey (Divorçons!); Bourchier (Divorçons!); Du Maurier (Dora). The admission to the list of such leading ladies as Ellen Terry, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Modjeska, Elizabeth Robins, and Gladys Cooper would extend it further.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , October 1976 , pp. 33 - 44
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1976

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Notes

1. Recollections of Sixty Years (1909), p. 218.Google Scholar

2. Hart, J. A.: Sardou and the Sardou Plays (1913), p. 90.Google Scholar A further acknowledgement is due to this work for many of the details of adaptations contained in the Checklist.

3. loc.cit.

4. Dame Madge Kendal by Herself (1933), p. 120.Google Scholar

5. The Drama of Yesterday and Today (1899), vol. I, p. 593.Google Scholar

6. ibid., pp. 592–3.

7. Diplomacy was never published. All references are to the MS submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, and now deposited in the British Museum.

8. op. cit., p. 593.Google Scholar

9. ibid.

10. Bancroft, G. P., Stage and Bar (1939), p. 25.Google Scholar

11. The Theatre, New Series, vol. XXI, p. 60.Google Scholar

12. ibid.

13. The Queen's Proctor was never published. All references are to the MS submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing, and now deposited in the British Museum.

14. Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932), vol. II, p. 151.Google Scholar