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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 41 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Anna Chancellor and Barry McGovern. |
| Summary |
When Henry Irving decides to open the Lyceum, his own London theater, with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Abraham Stoker as his assistant. Together, Irving and Stoker fall under the spell of Ellen Terry, a dazzlingly talented Shakespearean actress, known to all as a proto-feminist, and the lives of all three become intertwined with the Lyceum and each other. Set in the late-Victorian world of the London theater, Shadowplay tells the story of these extraordinary artists: the first superstar thespian-a showman extraordinaire whose impact on popular entertainment invites comparisons to PT Barnum-the era's greatest Shakespearian actor, and the young man who would go on to write the most iconic and bestselling horror novel of all time. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Fiction.
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Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905 -- Fiction.
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Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 -- Fiction.
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Lyceum Theatre (London, England) -- History -- Fiction.
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Creative ability -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Theater -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Chancellor, Anna, narrator.
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McGovern, Barry, 1948- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781690587002 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1690587008 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13201553 |
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