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John Lawrence Toole

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John Lawrence (J. L.) Toole (12 March 1830 – 30 July 1906) was an English comic actor, actor-manager and theatrical producer. [1]

76 relations: A Christmas Carol, Actor-manager, Adelphi Theatre, Arthur Law (playwright), Arthur Wing Pinero, Asmodeus, Beefsteak Club, Benjamin Nottingham Webster, Billee Taylor, Bright's disease, Brighton, Charing Cross Hospital, Charles Dickens, Charles Dillon (actor-manager), Charles James Mathews, Charles Lecocq, Charles Reade, Charles Wyndham (actor), City of London, City of London School, Clement Scott, Dion Boucicault, Dublin, East India Company, Edinburgh, Edward Richard Wright, Effie Bancroft, F. C. Burnand, Folly Theatre, Gaiety Theatre, London, George Colman the Younger, George Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan, Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street), Gout, Hedda Gabler, Henrietta Hodson, Henry Irving, Henry James Byron, Herman Charles Merivale, Irene Vanbrugh, J. M. Barrie, James Albery, John Baldwin Buckstone, John Hollingshead, John Liston, John Poole (playwright), Kensal Green Cemetery, La Vivandière (Gilbert), Lionel Brough, ..., London, Low comedy, Lyceum Theatre, London, Paul Bedford, Paul Pry (play), Queen's Theatre, Dublin, Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Robert Reece, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Phelps, St James's Theatre, Sussex, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, The Rivals, The Times, The Willow Copse, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, Thespis (opera), Thomas Haynes Bayly, Toastmaster, Tom Taylor, W. S. Gilbert, West End theatre, William Brough (writer). Expand index (26 more) »

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech.

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Actor-manager

An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the company's business and financial arrangements, sometimes taking over the management of a theatre, to perform plays of their own choice and in which they will usually star.

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Adelphi Theatre

The Adelphi Theatre is a London West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster.

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Arthur Law (playwright)

William Arthur Law (22 March 1844 – 2 April 1913), better known as Arthur Law, was an English playwright, actor and scenic designer.

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Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 – 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.

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Asmodeus

Asmodeus (Ασμοδαίος, Asmodaios) or Ashmedai (אַשְמְדּאָי, ʾAšmədʾāy; see below for other variations) is a king of demons"Asmodeus" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Beefsteak Club

Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th and 19th-century male dining clubs in Britain and Australia, that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity.

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Benjamin Nottingham Webster

Benjamin Nottingham Webster (3 September 17973 July 1882) was an English actor-manager and dramatist.

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Billee Taylor

Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens.

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Bright's disease

Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Charing Cross Hospital

Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Dillon (actor-manager)

Charles J. Dillon (1819 – 27 June 1881) was an English actor-manager and tragedienne.

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Charles James Mathews

Charles James Mathews (26 December 1803 – 24 June 1878) was a British actor.

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Charles Lecocq

Alexandre Charles Lecocq (3 June 183224 October 1918) was a French composer who specialized in the musical theater (primarily operetta and opéra comique).

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Charles Reade

Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

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Charles Wyndham (actor)

Sir Charles Wyndham (23 March 1837 – 12 January 1919) was an English actor-manager, born as Charles Culverwell in Liverpool, the only son of a doctor, Robert James Culverwell, M.R.C.S. He was educated abroad, at King's College London and at the College of Surgeons and the Peter Street Anatomical School, Dublin.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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City of London School

The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is an independent day school for boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, opposite Tate Modern.

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Clement Scott

Clement William Scott (6 October 1841 – 25 June 1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph and other journals, and a playwright, lyricist, translator and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century.

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Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward Richard Wright

Edward Richard Wright (1813–1859) was an English comedian and actor.

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Effie Bancroft

Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft (1839–1921) was an English actress and theatre manager.

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F. C. Burnand

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.

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Folly Theatre

The Folly Theatre was a London theatre of the late 19th century, in William IV Street, near Charing Cross, in the City of Westminster.

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Gaiety Theatre, London

The Gaiety Theatre was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand.

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George Colman the Younger

George Colman (21 October 1762 – 17 October 1836), known as "the Younger" was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

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George Grossmith

George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street)

The Globe was a Victorian theatre built in 1868 and demolished in 1902.

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Gout

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint.

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Henrietta Hodson

Henrietta Hodson (26 March 1841 – 30 October 1910) was an English actress and theatre manager best known for her portrayal of comedy roles in the Victorian era.

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Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.

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Henry James Byron

Henry James Byron (8 January 1835 – 11 April 1884) was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.

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Herman Charles Merivale

Herman Charles Merivale MA (27 January 1839 – 17 August 1906) was an English dramatist and poet, son of Herman Merivale.

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Irene Vanbrugh

Dame Irene Vanbrugh DBE (2 December 1872 – 30 November 1949) was an English actress.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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James Albery

James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist.

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John Baldwin Buckstone

John Baldwin Buckstone (14 September 1802 – 31 October 1879) was an English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826.

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John Hollingshead

John Hollingshead (9 September 1827 – 9 October 1904) was an English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century.

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John Liston

John Liston (c. 1776 – 22 March 1846), English comedian, was born in London.

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John Poole (playwright)

John Poole (1786–1872), an English playwright, was one of the earliest and best known 19th century playwrights of the comic drama, the farce.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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La Vivandière (Gilbert)

La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps! is a burlesque by W. S. Gilbert, described by the author as "An Operatic Extravaganza Founded on Donizetti's Opera, La figlia del regimento." In the French or other continental armies a vivandière was a woman who supplied food and drink to troops in the field.

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Lionel Brough

Lionel Brough (10 March 1836 – 9 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Low comedy

Low comedy, in association to comedy, is a dramatic or literary form of entertainment with no primary purpose but to create laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other riotous activity.

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Lyceum Theatre, London

The Lyceum Theatre (pronounced ly-CEE-um) is a 2,100-seat West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand.

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Paul Bedford

Paul Bedford (1792?–1871), was an English comedian.

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Paul Pry (play)

Paul Pry (1825), a farce in three acts, was the most notable play written by 19th-century English playwright John Poole.

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Queen's Theatre, Dublin

The Queen's Theatre, Dublin, located in Pearse Street was originally built in 1829 as the Adelphi Theatre.

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Queen's Theatre, Long Acre

The Queen's Theatre in London was established in 1867 as a theatre on the site of St Martin's Hall, a large concert room that had opened in 1850.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Robert Reece

Robert Reece (2 May 1838 – 8 July 1891) was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

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Samuel Phelps

Samuel Phelps (born 13 February 1804, Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Plymouth, Devon, died 6 November 1878, Anson’s Farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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St James's Theatre

St James's Theatre (est. 1835) was a 1,200-seat theatre located in King Street, at Duke Street, St James's, London.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848.

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The Rivals

The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Willow Copse

The Willow Copse is an English play by Dion Boucicault adapted from the French play La Closerie des Genêts by Frédéric Soulié.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

Four theatre buildings in Edinburgh have borne the name Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, though the final three were all rebuildings of the second.

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Thespis (opera)

Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, is an operatic extravaganza that was the first collaboration between dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan.

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Thomas Haynes Bayly

Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – 22 April 1839) was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer.

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Toastmaster

Toastmaster is a general term, prevalent in the United States in the middle 20th century, referring to a person in charge of the proceedings of a public speaking event.

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Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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William Brough (writer)

William Brough (28 April 1826 – 13 March 1870) was an English writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lawrence_Toole

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