Maurice Maeterlinck

Throughout her life, VT took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed...

While in her teens GBS composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady...

LH continues here to use many of the themes, settings and tropes established in her first book. One poem, which explores the theme of a brief life yielded in ecstasy, is a response to Maurice Maeterlinck

An epigraph quotes from Maeterlinck 's libretto for Debussy 's opera Pelleas et Melisande, 1892: Nous ne voyons jamais que l'envers des destinees . . . l'envers meme de la notre. The novel divides...

When in London KPF enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins . She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins in April 1907, thought Ibsen 's A Doll's House splendid in March...

During the war LCA received the last of three successive offers of significant acting roles, despite her total lack of dramatic training. Towards Christmas 1909 she had taken part in a charity production at the...

As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes , and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...

In 1895 the publishing firm of Walter Scott issued a volume which puts together two translations by LAT of plays by Maeterlinck : Pelleas and Melisanda; and, The Sightless, and gave rise to various...

TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...

EG accepted the contract partly to revive her waning popularity and partly because, as always, she needed the money. Lasky also hired Somerset Maugham , Edward Knoblock , Maurice Maeterlinck , Sir Gilbert Parker ...