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Irving, Laurence Sidney Brodribb

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 688 words | Copyright

Irving, Laurence Sidney Brodribb (1871–1914), English actor and playwright, younger son of Henry Irving, who made his first appearance in 1891 in Frank Benson's company. In 1898 he was at the Lyceum with his father, for whom he wrote Peter the Great (1898), an epic poem rather than a play, and also adapted Sardou's Robespierre (1899) and Dante (1903). Of his later plays the most successful was The Unwritten Law (1910). In 1913 he made a great success as Earle Skule in Ibsen's The Pretenders at the Haymarket Theatre, and a year later left with his wife to tour Canada and the USA. They were both drowned when the Empress of Ireland sank after a collision in the St Lawrence.

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