Henry Irving's Waterloo

Henry Irving's WaterlooIn this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts

From the Foreword

Insgesamt ergibt sich ein neues

Die Neuausgabe bietet den lateinischen Text in photomechanischer Reproduktion des Originals von 1662

Willy Brandt und Helmut Kohl

sociological investigation

David Park

Unlike more conventional books on the subject

sich direkt auch auf besondere Erfahrungen von Zeit einzulassen

The book draws on sixteenth-century liturgical documents such as Lutheran church orders and hundreds of primary printed and manuscript sources of polyphonic masses

African history

die das Gefüge aus kulturellen

and brings readers face-to-face with the central issues confronting law at the end of the 20th century