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After Dark (Boucicault Play)
''After Dark'' or ''After Dark: A Tale of London Life'' is an 1868 melodramatic play by the Irish writer Dion Boucicault. It includes a scene where a character is tied up on railroad tracks as a train approaches. Boucicault was successfully sued for copyright infringement by Augustin Daly, whose play ''Under the Gaslight'' featured a similar scene the year before. Film adaptations The play was turned into two films in 1915. An American film '' After Dark'' starring Eric Maxon and the British '' After Dark'' directed by Warwick Buckland Warwick Buckland (1863–1945) was a British stage actor. He later became a film actor and director. He directed the 1915 crime film '' After Dark''.Goble p.49 Buckland also worked as an art director, designing the sets for the epic ''Barnaby R .... References Bibliography * * 1868 plays British plays adapted into films Plays set in London Plays by Dion Boucicault {{1860s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodramatic
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes. Melodramas are typically set in the private sphere of the home, focusing on morality and family issues, love, and marriage, often with challenges from an outside source, such as a "temptress", a scoundrel, or an aristocratic villain. A melodrama on stage, filmed, or on television is usually accompanied by dramatic and suggestive music that offers cues to the audience of the drama being presented. In scholarly and historical musical contexts, ''melodramas'' are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied to stage performances without incidental music, novels, films, te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dion Boucicault
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. Although ''The New York Times'' hailed him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century," he and his second wife, Agnes Robertson Boucicault, had applied for and received American citizenship in 1873. Life and career Early life Boucicault was born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot in Dublin, where he lived on Gardiner Street. His mother was Anne Darley, sister of the poet and mathematician George Darley. The Darleys were an important Anglo-Irish Dublin family influential in many fields and related to the Guinnesses by marriage. Anne was married to Samuel Smith Boursiquot, of Huguenot ancestry, but the identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copyright Infringement
Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement. Copyright infringement disputes are usually resolved through direct negotiation, a notice and take down process, or litigation in civil court. Egregious or large-scale commercial infringement, especially when it involves counterfeiting, is sometimes prosecuted via the criminal justice system. Shifting public expectations, advances in digital technology and the increasing reach of the Internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Daly
John Augustin Daly (July 20, 1838June 7, 1899) was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime. Drama critic, theatre manager, playwright, and adapter, he became the first recognized stage director in America. He exercised a fierce and tyrannical control over all aspects of his productions. His rules of conduct for actors and actresses imposed heavy fines for late appearances and forgotten lines and earned him the title "the autocrat of the stage." He formed a permanent company in New York and opened Daly's Theatre in New York in 1879 and a second one in London in 1893. Biography Augustin Daly was born in Plymouth, North Carolina to Captain Denis Daly, a sea-captain and ship owner, and Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant John Duffy of the British Army. He was educated at Norfolk, Virginia, and in the public schools of New York City. His mother, early left a widow, brought her two boys to New York City, where they soon became frequent attendants at the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Gaslight
''Under the Gaslight'' is an 1867 play by Augustin Daly. It was his first successful play, and is a primary example of a melodrama, best known for its suspense scene where a person is tied to railroad tracks as a train approaches, only to be saved from death at the last possible moment.Kabatchnick, AmmonBlood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem pp. 351-52 (2017)Fisher, JamesHistorical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings pp. 441-42 (2015) Reception The show had a successful initial run at the Worrell Sisters' New York Theatre in New York, starting on August 12, 1867, and running through October 1, a total of 47 performances. Rose Eytinge starred at Laura Courtland.Advertisement ''New York Herald'' (advertisement for play with positive quotes from reviews) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Dark (1915 American Film)
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Eric Maxon
Eric Maxon (22 May 1882 – 1963) was an English stage and early film actor and member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom, for a period, he also designed the costumes. He was born as Eric MacKay in Balham in London in 1882, the son of stockbroker Charles Stewart MacKay. As Eric Maxon he joined the company of H.B. Irving in 1907 and with whom he toured Britain in '' The Lyons Mail'', '' The Bells'' and ''Charles I'', plays made memorable by Irving's father Henry Irving. From 1909 to 1910 Maxon appeared with the company of actor-manager Frank Benson in '' The School for Scandal''. In 1912 he appeared in the stage play ''Ben-Hur'' in Australia. Maxon joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 1910-11 season, appearing in '' The Taming of the Shrew'', '' Hamlet'', '' The School for Scandal'', '' The Winter's Tale'', ''Macbeth'', ''Julius Caesar'', ''As You Like It'', '' Hamlet'', ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', '' The Merchant of Venice'', among other plays. He ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Dark (1915 Film)
''After Dark'' is a 1915 British silent crime film directed by Warwick Buckland and starring Flora Morris, Harry Royston and Harry Gilbey.Goble p. 49 It is an adaptation of the 1868 play of the same name by Dion Boucicault. Plot A baronet's son marries a barmaid in order to qualify under the inheritance terms of a will. Cast * Flora Morris as Eliza Medhurst * Harry Royston as Charles Dalton * Harry Gilbey Harry Gilbey was a British actor who appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including '' After Dark'' (1915).Goble p.49 Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' Kissing Cup'' (1913) * '' After Dark'' (1915) ... as Gordon Chumley * Beatrice Read as Rose Egerton * B.C. Robinson as Chandos Bellingham References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1915 films 1915 crime films British crime films British silent short films 1910s English-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Buckland
Warwick Buckland (1863–1945) was a British stage actor. He later became a film actor and director. He directed the 1915 crime film '' After Dark''.Goble p.49 Buckland also worked as an art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ..., designing the sets for the epic '' Barnaby Rudge'' made by Hepworth Pictures. Selected filmography Director * '' After Dark'' (1915) Actor * '' The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1913) * '' The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * '' Trelawny of the Wells'' (1916) * '' The Grip of Iron'' (1920) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1863 births 1945 deaths British film directors British male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Plays
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British Plays Adapted Into Films
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Plays Set In London
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