The
Importance
of being Earnest.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
.
.
Apl.
18.
(1825.
]
Thomas William Robertson
1864. David Garrick. New York (1870).
1865. Society. See Caste.
1866. Ours. New York (1879].
1867. Caste. New York (1878). Society and Caste. Ed. Pemberton, T. E.
1905.
1868. Play. L. A. E. No. 1969. [1893. ]
1869. Home. New York (1879].
1869. Dreams. [1893).
1869. School. New York (1879].
1870. M. P. L. A. E. No. 1966.
The Principal Dramatic Works of T. W. Robertson. With memoir by his
son (Robertson, T. W. ] 2 vols. 1889.
Richard Lalor Sheil
1814. Adelaide; or, the Emigrants. Dublin, 1814.
? . The Apostate. 3rd edn. 1817.
1818. Ballamira; or, The Fall of Tunis. 1818. Hunt, Leigh. The Examiner.
26 April 1818.
1819. Evadne; or, The Statue. 1819.
1820. Montoni.
? The Fatal Dowry. (Adaptation of the play by Massenger and
Field. ]
? • Damon and Pythias : a tragedy [by Banim, J. ; revised by Sheil].
.
:
Robert Louis Stevenson (and William Ernest Henley)
Three Plays. (1882] Deacon Brodie, [1890] Beau Austin, [1897) Admiral
Guinea. 1892. Rptd in vol. xv of Swanston edn of R. L. Si's Works.
1912 (together with Macaire, a melodramatic farce).
Pinero, Sir A. W. Robert Louis Stevenson: the Dramatist. 1903.
See, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
1840. Glencoe; or, The Fate of the Macdonalds. 2nd edn. 1840.
1850. Ion.
The Dramatic Works of Sir T. N. Talfourd. 11th edn. 1852.
Dickens, Charles. The late Mr Justice Talfourd. Household Words. 25 March
1854.
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1855. Still Waters Run Deep. L. A. E. Vol. xxi (1855).
1858, New York; 1861, London. Our American Cousin.
1859. The Fool's Revenge. L. A. E. Vol. XLIII.
1863. The Ticket-of-Leave Man. L. A. E. Vol. Lix.
1870. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
? . Jeanne D'Arc.
1873. Arkwright's Wife.
1874. Lady Clancarty.
1876. Anne Boleyn.
See, also, under Reade, Charles.
Benjamin Nottingham Webster
1832. Paul Clifford; the Highwayman of 1770; adapted from the novel
of Edward Lytton. Cumberland's Minor Theatre. Vol. vi. [1833. ]
1843. Caught in a Trap. The Acting National Drama. Vol. x. [1843. ]
1851. Belphegor, the Mountebank; or Pride of Birth. The Acting National
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1851. The Man of Law. The Acting National Drama. Vol. xvii. [1851. ]
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856–1900)
(1904, Paris. ) Salomé. Drame en un Acte. Paris, 1893. With sixteen
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Salomé. Translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
1894. With the two suppressed plates and extra titlepage. Preface
by Ross, Robert. 1907 [1906). 1906 and 1908.
1892. Lady Windermere's Fan. A play about a good woman. 1893.
1893. A Woman of No Importance. [1894. ]
1895.
The Importance of being Earnest. A trivial comedy for serious
people. 1899.
1895. An Ideal Husband. 1899. A new acting version. [Ed. Ross, Robert B. ]
[1914. )
Vera; or, The Nihilists. Privately printed. 1902.
The Duchess of Padua. [With a prefatory letter by Ross, Robert. ] 1907.
A dramatised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was given during
1913.
See, also, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
William Gorman Wills
1872. Charles the First. 1873.
1874. Jane Shore.
? . Marie Stuart.
1878. Olivia. (An adaptation of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. )
1883. Claudian. [Dialogue only by Wills; story and construction by
Henry Herman. )
1885. Faust. (1886. ]
Wills, F. W. G. Wills. 1898.
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]
Nineteenth-Century Drama
525
The following adaptations obtained great success and had a considerable
influence on the drama of the period :
1861. A Scrap of Paper. (Adapted from Sardou's Les Pattes de Mouche,
by J, P. Simpson. )
1863. The Duke's Motto. (By John Brougham, founded on Paul Feval's
Le Bossu. )
1867. A Quiet Rubber. (Adapted by C. H. Coghlan from La Partie de
Picquet. )
1878. Diplomacy. (By B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott; a version of
Sardou's Dora. There have been several notable revivals. )
G. A. B.
CHAPTER IX
THACKERAY
There is a complete bibliography of Thackeray's writings, arranged in
chronological order, in Melville, L. , William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. II,
pp. 145-376, which supersedes previous bibliographies.
A. PRINCIPAL WORKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS FICTION
The Professor. A Tale. Ptd in Bentley's Miscellany, Sept. 1837; rptd in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11, 1841, as by Goliah Gahagan, and in
A Shabby Genteel Story, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853.
The Yellowplush Correspondence. Ptd in Fraser's Magazine (8 nos. ), Nov.
1837-August 1838, without Mr Yellowplush's Ajew. Philadelphia, 1838.
Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, with Fashnable Fax and Polite
Annygoats omitted, and Mr Yellowplush's Ajew (August 1838) and the
epistle to sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, bart. (Epistles to the Literati,
no. XIII, Jan. 1840) added, 1841. Also, in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse,
vol. 11, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr C. J, Yellowplush, and in a
separate vol. with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , 1856.
Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. Begun in The New Monthly
Magazine, Feb. 1838; continued as Historical Recollections by Major
Gahagan, March 1838, and as Major Gahagan's Historical Re-
miniscences (3 nos. ), Nov. 1838-Feb. 1839. Reminiscences of Major
Gahagan. 1839. Rptd as Some Passages in the Life of Major Gabagan
in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. II, 1841, and as The Tremendous
Adventures of Major Gahagan in Miscellanies, vol. 1, 1855.
Catherine, a Story, by Ikey Solomons, Esq. , junior. Ptd in Fraser (7 nos. ),
May 1839-Feb. 1840. Not rptd until 1869 (Library edn, vol. xxII).
Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots. 1839. (Cruikshank's Comic Annual,
ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11,
1841. New York, 1850. Also, as The Fatal Boots, in Miscellanies, vol. I,
and with Cox's Diary, 1855.
The Bedford Row Conspiracy. Ptd in The New Monthly (3 nos. ), Jan. -April
1840. Rptd with A Shabby Genteel Story, New York, 1852, 1853, in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, 1841, in Miscellanies, vol. 111, 1856, and
with A Little Dinner at Timmins's, 1856.
A Shabby Genteel Story. Ptd in Fraser (4 nos. ), June-Oct. 1840. With The
Professor, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and
separately, 1857.
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526
[CH.
Bibliography
The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1840. The contents
included some miscellaneous sketches, already ptd, with new matter.
An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. 1840. Rptd from The
Westminster Review, June 1840.
Barber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb. 1840. (Cruikshank's Comic
Annual, ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd as Cox's Diary, in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 1, and with The Fatal Boots, 1855.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. Ptd
in Fraser (4 nos. ), Sept. -Dec. 1841. As The Great Hoggarty Diamond.
New York, 1848. Under original title. 1849. Rptd in Miscellanies.
vol. iv, 1857.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Chronicle of the Drum. 1841.
The Chronicle of the Drum rptd with the Ballads in Miscellanies, vol. 1,
1855.
Sultan Stork; being the One Thousand and Second Night, translated from
the Persian by Major G. OʻG. Gahagan, H. E. I. C. S. Ptd in Ainsworth's
Magazine (2 nos. ), Feb. and May 1842. Rptd in Sultan Stork, and other
Stories and Sketches . . . now first collected [ed. Shepherd, R. H. ], 1887,
and in vol. xx of the American collected edn, Boston, 1889.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Ptd in Fraser (5 nos. ), June 1842-Feb. 1843
(viz. Fitz-Boodle's Confession, June 1842; Professions, by George Fitz-
Boodle, July 1842; Fitz-Boodle's Confessions: Miss Löwe, Dorothea,
Ottilia, August 1842, Jan. , Feb. 1843). The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle;
and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. New York, 1852.
Rptd as The Fitz-Boodle Papers, without Miss Löwe, Dorothea and
Ottilia, in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with Men's Wives, 1857. Dorothea
and Ottilia were rptd with the rest in the Library edn, 1869, vol. XXII.
Miss Löwe was rptd separately in vol. xxii, 1885, and collected with the
rest in the pocket edn, 1887.
Men's Wives. Ptd in Fraser (8 nos. ), March-Nov. 1843, under the general
title Confessions of George Fitz-Boodle; Men's Wives (viz.
Thomas William Robertson
1864. David Garrick. New York (1870).
1865. Society. See Caste.
1866. Ours. New York (1879].
1867. Caste. New York (1878). Society and Caste. Ed. Pemberton, T. E.
1905.
1868. Play. L. A. E. No. 1969. [1893. ]
1869. Home. New York (1879].
1869. Dreams. [1893).
1869. School. New York (1879].
1870. M. P. L. A. E. No. 1966.
The Principal Dramatic Works of T. W. Robertson. With memoir by his
son (Robertson, T. W. ] 2 vols. 1889.
Richard Lalor Sheil
1814. Adelaide; or, the Emigrants. Dublin, 1814.
? . The Apostate. 3rd edn. 1817.
1818. Ballamira; or, The Fall of Tunis. 1818. Hunt, Leigh. The Examiner.
26 April 1818.
1819. Evadne; or, The Statue. 1819.
1820. Montoni.
? The Fatal Dowry. (Adaptation of the play by Massenger and
Field. ]
? • Damon and Pythias : a tragedy [by Banim, J. ; revised by Sheil].
.
:
Robert Louis Stevenson (and William Ernest Henley)
Three Plays. (1882] Deacon Brodie, [1890] Beau Austin, [1897) Admiral
Guinea. 1892. Rptd in vol. xv of Swanston edn of R. L. Si's Works.
1912 (together with Macaire, a melodramatic farce).
Pinero, Sir A. W. Robert Louis Stevenson: the Dramatist. 1903.
See, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
1840. Glencoe; or, The Fate of the Macdonalds. 2nd edn. 1840.
1850. Ion.
The Dramatic Works of Sir T. N. Talfourd. 11th edn. 1852.
Dickens, Charles. The late Mr Justice Talfourd. Household Words. 25 March
1854.
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524
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Tom Taylor
1853. Plot and Passion. L. A. E. Vol. XIII.
1855. Still Waters Run Deep. L. A. E. Vol. xxi (1855).
1858, New York; 1861, London. Our American Cousin.
1859. The Fool's Revenge. L. A. E. Vol. XLIII.
1863. The Ticket-of-Leave Man. L. A. E. Vol. Lix.
1870. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
? . Jeanne D'Arc.
1873. Arkwright's Wife.
1874. Lady Clancarty.
1876. Anne Boleyn.
See, also, under Reade, Charles.
Benjamin Nottingham Webster
1832. Paul Clifford; the Highwayman of 1770; adapted from the novel
of Edward Lytton. Cumberland's Minor Theatre. Vol. vi. [1833. ]
1843. Caught in a Trap. The Acting National Drama. Vol. x. [1843. ]
1851. Belphegor, the Mountebank; or Pride of Birth. The Acting National
Drama. Vol. xvII. (1853. ]
1851. The Man of Law. The Acting National Drama. Vol. xvii. [1851. ]
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856–1900)
(1904, Paris. ) Salomé. Drame en un Acte. Paris, 1893. With sixteen
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Paris, 1907.
Salomé. Translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
1894. With the two suppressed plates and extra titlepage. Preface
by Ross, Robert. 1907 [1906). 1906 and 1908.
1892. Lady Windermere's Fan. A play about a good woman. 1893.
1893. A Woman of No Importance. [1894. ]
1895.
The Importance of being Earnest. A trivial comedy for serious
people. 1899.
1895. An Ideal Husband. 1899. A new acting version. [Ed. Ross, Robert B. ]
[1914. )
Vera; or, The Nihilists. Privately printed. 1902.
The Duchess of Padua. [With a prefatory letter by Ross, Robert. ] 1907.
A dramatised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was given during
1913.
See, also, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
William Gorman Wills
1872. Charles the First. 1873.
1874. Jane Shore.
? . Marie Stuart.
1878. Olivia. (An adaptation of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. )
1883. Claudian. [Dialogue only by Wills; story and construction by
Henry Herman. )
1885. Faust. (1886. ]
Wills, F. W. G. Wills. 1898.
## p. 525 (#541) ############################################
VIII
]
Nineteenth-Century Drama
525
The following adaptations obtained great success and had a considerable
influence on the drama of the period :
1861. A Scrap of Paper. (Adapted from Sardou's Les Pattes de Mouche,
by J, P. Simpson. )
1863. The Duke's Motto. (By John Brougham, founded on Paul Feval's
Le Bossu. )
1867. A Quiet Rubber. (Adapted by C. H. Coghlan from La Partie de
Picquet. )
1878. Diplomacy. (By B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott; a version of
Sardou's Dora. There have been several notable revivals. )
G. A. B.
CHAPTER IX
THACKERAY
There is a complete bibliography of Thackeray's writings, arranged in
chronological order, in Melville, L. , William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. II,
pp. 145-376, which supersedes previous bibliographies.
A. PRINCIPAL WORKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS FICTION
The Professor. A Tale. Ptd in Bentley's Miscellany, Sept. 1837; rptd in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11, 1841, as by Goliah Gahagan, and in
A Shabby Genteel Story, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853.
The Yellowplush Correspondence. Ptd in Fraser's Magazine (8 nos. ), Nov.
1837-August 1838, without Mr Yellowplush's Ajew. Philadelphia, 1838.
Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, with Fashnable Fax and Polite
Annygoats omitted, and Mr Yellowplush's Ajew (August 1838) and the
epistle to sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, bart. (Epistles to the Literati,
no. XIII, Jan. 1840) added, 1841. Also, in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse,
vol. 11, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr C. J, Yellowplush, and in a
separate vol. with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , 1856.
Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. Begun in The New Monthly
Magazine, Feb. 1838; continued as Historical Recollections by Major
Gahagan, March 1838, and as Major Gahagan's Historical Re-
miniscences (3 nos. ), Nov. 1838-Feb. 1839. Reminiscences of Major
Gahagan. 1839. Rptd as Some Passages in the Life of Major Gabagan
in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. II, 1841, and as The Tremendous
Adventures of Major Gahagan in Miscellanies, vol. 1, 1855.
Catherine, a Story, by Ikey Solomons, Esq. , junior. Ptd in Fraser (7 nos. ),
May 1839-Feb. 1840. Not rptd until 1869 (Library edn, vol. xxII).
Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots. 1839. (Cruikshank's Comic Annual,
ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11,
1841. New York, 1850. Also, as The Fatal Boots, in Miscellanies, vol. I,
and with Cox's Diary, 1855.
The Bedford Row Conspiracy. Ptd in The New Monthly (3 nos. ), Jan. -April
1840. Rptd with A Shabby Genteel Story, New York, 1852, 1853, in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, 1841, in Miscellanies, vol. 111, 1856, and
with A Little Dinner at Timmins's, 1856.
A Shabby Genteel Story. Ptd in Fraser (4 nos. ), June-Oct. 1840. With The
Professor, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and
separately, 1857.
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526
[CH.
Bibliography
The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1840. The contents
included some miscellaneous sketches, already ptd, with new matter.
An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. 1840. Rptd from The
Westminster Review, June 1840.
Barber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb. 1840. (Cruikshank's Comic
Annual, ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd as Cox's Diary, in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 1, and with The Fatal Boots, 1855.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. Ptd
in Fraser (4 nos. ), Sept. -Dec. 1841. As The Great Hoggarty Diamond.
New York, 1848. Under original title. 1849. Rptd in Miscellanies.
vol. iv, 1857.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Chronicle of the Drum. 1841.
The Chronicle of the Drum rptd with the Ballads in Miscellanies, vol. 1,
1855.
Sultan Stork; being the One Thousand and Second Night, translated from
the Persian by Major G. OʻG. Gahagan, H. E. I. C. S. Ptd in Ainsworth's
Magazine (2 nos. ), Feb. and May 1842. Rptd in Sultan Stork, and other
Stories and Sketches . . . now first collected [ed. Shepherd, R. H. ], 1887,
and in vol. xx of the American collected edn, Boston, 1889.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Ptd in Fraser (5 nos. ), June 1842-Feb. 1843
(viz. Fitz-Boodle's Confession, June 1842; Professions, by George Fitz-
Boodle, July 1842; Fitz-Boodle's Confessions: Miss Löwe, Dorothea,
Ottilia, August 1842, Jan. , Feb. 1843). The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle;
and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. New York, 1852.
Rptd as The Fitz-Boodle Papers, without Miss Löwe, Dorothea and
Ottilia, in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with Men's Wives, 1857. Dorothea
and Ottilia were rptd with the rest in the Library edn, 1869, vol. XXII.
Miss Löwe was rptd separately in vol. xxii, 1885, and collected with the
rest in the pocket edn, 1887.
Men's Wives. Ptd in Fraser (8 nos. ), March-Nov. 1843, under the general
title Confessions of George Fitz-Boodle; Men's Wives (viz.
