| 词条 | Henry Leslie (playwright) |
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Henry Leslie (6 January 1830 – 4 March 1881) was a British actor and playwright active in the mid nineteenth century. BiographyLeslie was born in Walsoken, a village in the County of Norfolk, less than two miles distance from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, at times also listed as his place of birth.[1][2] The absence of his name in some early English public records might indicate that Henry Leslie was his stage name. Leslie made his stage debut at Ipswich in August 1847. From September 1852 to January of the following year Leslie managed the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Rollins, the theatre's former treasurer. After Rollins retired in January, Leslie was unable to keep the financially strapped theatre afloat and was forced to close within a month or two.[3][4] In September 1853 Leslie made his London debut at Drury Lane playing Roderigo in Shakespeare's Othello and went on to be a player at London's Olympic Theatre for five seasons. Around this time he founded The Stage College of Dramatic Tuition at 36 Queen's Crescent, Haverstock Hill in London and later managed or co-managed the Amphitheatre and Theatre Royal and the New Prince of Wales' Theatre, both in Liverpool, and the Theatre Royal in Leeds. In 1870 he toured with his own company performing The Princess of Trebizonde: an Opera Bouffe in Three Acts by Jacques Offenbach that was adapted for the English stage by Charles Lamb Kenney. [5]Leslie wrote the novel The Mariner's Compass in 1865 and the story "How the Ghost Walked", which appeared in Andrew Halliday's Savage Club Papers in 1868. He wrote several plays, including Adrienne or the Secret of a Life (1860); The Trail of Sin (1863); The Orange Girl, (1864); The Mariner's Compass (1865); The Sin and the Sorrow (1866); Tide and Time (1867); Friendship, Love and Truth (1868); and The Village Blacksmith (1868).[6] The very successful American play Hearts of Oak (1879) by James Herne and David Belasco was an adaptation of Leslie's Mariner's Compass.[7] In the early 1850s Leslie married Louisa Doxat, the daughter of a London area florist. By 1861 the couple had three daughters and two sons, the oldest a seven-year-old daughter and the youngest a baby girl.[8] Ten years later Leslie is listed in the census record as married and living in Liverpool, though his wife and two sons are absent from the record.[1] Leslie died in Paignton, a coastal town in the southwest of England, at the age of 51.[2] Sources1. ^1 Henry Leslie – 1871 England Census {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leslie, Henry}}2. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1871 Modern English Biography: I-Q By Frederic Boase 1898 pg. 1871] 3. ^[https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&source=hp&q=%22thomas+Rollison%22+of+Edinburgh+theatre+1853&psj=1&oq=%22thomas+Rollison%22+of+Edinburgh+theatre+1853&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=725707l737667l3l738254l9l9l0l0l0l0l104l615l8.1l9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=839dfbf38d79355&biw=1280&bih=622 In Memoriam. Nelson Evening Mail, Rōrahi XVIII, Putanga 283, 1 Hakihea 1883, Pg. 3] 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=jpIwAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA442 The Annals of The Edinburgh Stage With an Account of the Rise and Progress By James C. Dibdin, 1888, pg. 442] 5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=RXstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538 The Drama of Yesterday & To-day, Volume 2, By Clement Scott; 1899, pg. 538] 6. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1871 Modern English Biography: I-Q By Frederic Boase 1898 pg.1871] 7. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=5pMXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 The life of David Belasco] 8. ^Henry Leslie – 1861 England Census 8 : 1830 births|1881 deaths|English male stage actors|19th-century English male actors|English dramatists and playwrights|English male dramatists and playwrights|19th-century English dramatists and playwrights|19th-century British male writers |
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