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“Imagination Holds Dominion”: Stage Spectacle in Beerbohm Tree's Productions, 1897–1900

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

John Ripley
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The opening of Beerbohm Tree's new theatre, Her Majesty's, on April 28, 1897, was a major social event, but hardly a landmark in stage history. Desmond MacCarthy felt that “Her Majesty's … frankly forewent the claim to be the last word in dramatic art” in favour of “the grandly, lavishly popular in that line.” The art critic of the Weekly Sun suggested that it had foregone dramatic art altogether as it had been traditionally understood. “This is the age of the biograph and the cinematograph,” he wrote. “Mr. Tree's object was to give us living pictures which talked.”

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , May 1968 , pp. 11 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1968

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NOTES

1 Desmond MacCarthy, “From the Stalls,” Max Beerhohm (ed.), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (n.d.).

2 The Weekly Sun, November 6, 1898.

3 The Topical Times, December, 1888.

4 The Era, May 1, 1898.

5 Treasure Trove, October 29, 1890.

6 The Globe, April 13, 1899.

7 The Standard, April 26, 1897.

8 Courtney, W. L., “An Open Letter to An American Friend,” Herbert Beerbohm Tree, p. 261.Google Scholar

9 The Referee, January 23, 1898.

10 The Observer, January 23, 1898.

11 Vanity Fair, January 24, 1898.

12 The Daily Mail, January 22, 1898.

13 Nicholas Vardac, A., Stage to Screen (Cambridge, Mass., 1949), p. 167.Google Scholar

14 Lady, June 30, 1898.

15 The Daily Mail, June 4, 1898.

16 Ibid.

17 Lady, June 30, 1898.

18 The Star, January 11, 1900.

19 The New York Tribune (Illustrated Supplement), February 6, 1898.

20 The Daily Mail, March 25, 1899.

21 Pall Mall Gazette, April 10, 1899.

23 The Sunday Sun, January 14, 1900.

24 Lady's Pictorial, May 8, 1897.

25 The Glasgow Herald, January 22, 1898.

26 The Era, November 5, 1898.

27 The Leader, January 4, 1898.

28 The Daily Mail, April 9, 1899.

29 The Irish Times, January 11, 1900.

30 Sunday Special, November 6,1898.

31 The Irish Times, January 11, 1900.

32 British Free Press, April 7, 1899.

33 The Times, January 24, 1898.

34 Ibid.

35 The Glasgow Herald, November 4, 1898.

36 The Daily Mail, March 25, 1899.

37 The Morning Post, October 31, 1898.

38 Madame, April 22, 1899.

39 Cassell's Saturday Journal, February 1, 1899.

40 Ibid.

41 Topical Times, December, 1888.

42 The Glasgow Herald, January 22, 1898.

43 Woman, April 19, 1899.

44 Lady, June 30, 1898.

45 The Glasgow Herald, January 22, 1898.

46 Saturday Review, September 30, 1899.

47 Pall Mall Gazette, April 10,1899.

48 The Times, January 11, 1900.

49 The Daily Chronicle, January 11, 1900.

50 New York Herald (Paris Edition), January 11, 1900.

51 The Citizen, June 9, 1900.

52 The Weekly Times and Echo, May 2, 1897.

53 The Sporting Times, January 29, 1898.

54 The Citizen (Supplement), December 10, 1898.

55 Yorkshire Post, December 15, 1898.

56 The Era, May 1, 1897.

57 The Morning Post, November 4, 1898.