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East Lynne
East Lynne (1863), a play by Clifton W. Tayleure. [Winter Garden Theatre, approx. 20 perf.] Lady Isabel Mount Severn ( Lucille Western) marries her childhood sweetheart, Archibald Carlyle ( A. H. Davenport), but after several years of happiness she is led by Sir Francis Levison ( Lawrence Barrett) to believe that Archibald is unfaithful. She elopes with Sir Francis, who later refuses to keep his promise of marriage. Carlyle remarries and the years pass. Ill and dying, Isabel returns to Carlyle's home, East Lynne, to see her children and to beg her husband's forgiveness. She comes disguised as a Madam Vine, but Archibald, who quickly recognizes her, does forgive her as she dies. Western paid Tayleure $100 to adapt Mrs. Henry Wood's popular Victorian novel of the same name. It served her as a vehicle for many years and was also popular with other actresses. It became such a favorite of touring and stock companies that “Next week, East Lynne” was soon a well‐known, if slighting, expression to indicate the seemingly inevitable nature of their repertories. From the start, however, the play was never as well received by critics as it was by the public, the Albion dismissing its first presentation as “sickly nonsense.” Clifton W. TAYLEURE (1831–87) began his career as an actor who specialized in playing old men. Much of his earliest career seems to have been spent at Baltimore's Holliday Street Theatre, where he continued to serve as the house's dramatist after his retirement from performing in 1856. By the late 1860s he managed several important Broadway theatres, including the Olympic and the Grand Opera House. Tayleure's other (and mostly undistinguished) melodramas included Horseshoe Robinson (1856), A Woman's Wrongs (1874), Rube; or, The Wall Street Undertow (1875), and Parted (1876).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-EastLynne.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-EastLynne.html |
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East Lynne
East Lynne, sentimental melodramatic novel by the English author Mrs. Henry Wood, published in 1861. Its dramatic version was extremely popular on the American stage during the later part of the century for its sensational and lachrymose plot about crime and licentious behavior in English high society.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EastLynne.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "East Lynne." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-EastLynne.html |
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East Lynne
East Lynne, see Wood, E.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "East Lynne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "East Lynne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EastLynne.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "East Lynne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-EastLynne.html |
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