| 词条 | James Albery |
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James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist. Life and careerAlbery was born in London. On leaving school Albery entered an architect's office, and started to write plays. His farce A Pretty Piece of Chiselling was given its first production by the Ingoldsby Club in 1864. After some failures, his adaptation, Dr Davy, was produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London (1866). His most successful piece, Two Roses, a comedy, was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1870, in which Sir Henry Irving made one of his earliest London successes as Digby Grant.[1] The production ran for 300 performances. Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including Coquettes (1870); Pickwick, a four-act drama (based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1871); Pink Dominos (1877), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion Theatre, where his wife, the actress Mary Moore (who after his death became Lady Charles Wyndham (1861—1931)), played the leading parts; Jingle (a farcical version of Pickwick), produced at the Lyceum in 1878;[1] and Oriana (with music by Frederic Clay). His one-act operetta, The Spectre Knight, with music by Alfred Cellier, ran as a companion piece to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer and then H.M.S. Pinafore at the Opera Comique in 1878 and on tour. He also wrote the farce Brighton (1888) among other later plays. Albery also wrote a book called Where's the Cat? in 1880. Albery's and Moore's son was Bronson Albery (1881-1971), a theatre director, after whom the Albery Theatre is named. He wrote this epitaph for himself: "He slept beneath the moon/He basked beneath the sun;/He lived a life of going-to-do,/And died with nothing done."[2] References1. ^1 {{EB1911|wstitle=Albery, James|inline=1}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Osmania Veterinarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LpYAAAAYAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Osmania University|page=52}}
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8 : 1838 births|1889 deaths|People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan|Writers from London|English male dramatists and playwrights|Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery|19th-century English dramatists and playwrights|19th-century British male writers |
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