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Mitchell, Julian
Mitchell, Julian (1935– ), novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, educated at Wadham College, Oxford. His novels include Imaginary Toys (1961), The White Father (1964, set in Africa), and the more experimental The Undiscovered Country (1968), in which a narrator, ‘Julian Mitchell’, describes his school and university days, and his relationship with ‘Charles Humphries’, a boyhood friend who, on his suicide, leaves Julian the manuscript of his novel A New Satyricon, which he proceeds to transcribe.
Mitchell then turned to the theatre and television, achieving West End success with Half-Life (1977), a play about an ageing archaeologist, and Another Country (perf. 1981, pub. 1982, filmed 1984), which examines the pressures and conflicts that turned some of the young intellectuals of the 1930s towards Marxism. Later plays include Francis (1983), on the life of Francis of Assisi, and After Aida (1986). His screenplays include a study of Wilde (1998, played by Stephen Fry); he has also written stage adaptations of the novels of Compton-Burnett and TV adaptations of Colin Dexter's ‘Inspector Morse’ Oxford detective stories. |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Mitchell, Julian." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Mitchell, Julian." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MitchellJulian.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Mitchell, Julian." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MitchellJulian.html |
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Mitchell, Julian
Mitchell, Julian (1854–1926), director. Probably the most prolific stager of musicals in Broadway's history, he started his career as a dancer at Niblo's Garden. In 1884 he became Charles Hoyt's principal director and staged many of Hoyt's later plays, including A Trip to Chinatown (1891). With Hoyt he learned the art of fast, fluid pacing that characterized his best work. Mitchell then moved to Weber and Fields, where he was often credited with establishing that team's celebrated chorus line of beauties. In 1903 he directed two of the year's biggest musical hits, The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Toyland. Florenz Ziegfeld hired him to help stage the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907, and he eventually helped mount eight more of them. Mitchell's work was also seen in The Fortune Teller (1898), It Happened in Nordland (1904), Miss Innocence (1908), The Pink Lady (1911), Mary (1920), The Perfect Fool (1921), and Sunny (1925). In all he staged more than eighty musicals, although in his later years he was virtually deaf.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mitchell, Julian." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mitchell, Julian." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MitchellJulian.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Mitchell, Julian." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-MitchellJulian.html |
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