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Nights at the Lyceum: Shadowplay, by Joseph O’Connor, reviewed

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

‘I am very, very pleased,’ murmured Queen Victoria in 1895, when she dubbed Henry Irving, Britain’s first theatrical knight. He and Ellen Terry, who so often played opposite him, were international celebrities.

Bram Stoker was their intimate friend and associate. He managed Irving’s Lyceum Theatre for 27 years and spent much of his career in their shadow.

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