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Article: W.D. King, Henry Irving's Waterloo.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- March 22, 1995
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W.D. King, Henry Irving's Waterloo (U of California P, 1993), xxv + 303 pp., $40.00.
This is a relentless book. Ks its expanded title promises, it includes Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History, to say nothing of the complete text and publishing history of Conan Doyle's one-act play, A Story of Waterloo, its ostensible subject and taking-off point. It also contains a goodly portion of Shaw's review, "Mr. Irving Takes Paregoric," and a chronology beginning in I792 and ending in 1966. It is well-illustrated, and its bibliography is ...