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Play
Title |
Role |
Lyceum Theatre, Sunderland; Theatre Royal, Edinburgh and Queen's
Theatre and Operetta House, Edinburgh: 29 September 1856 to
13 September 1859 |
1 |
The Advocate's Daughter |
Herbert |
2 |
All That Glitters IS Not Gold |
Sir Arthur Lassel, Stephen Plum, Jasper Plum |
3 |
The Anchor of Hope |
Richard Hargrave |
4 |
An Hour at Seville |
Peregrine Pyefinch |
5 |
The Artist's Wife |
Lord Welford |
6 |
Asmodeus |
Ferdinand, Count Medora |
7 |
As You Like It |
Sylvius, Orlando |
8 |
The Avalanche |
General Duclos |
9 |
The Balance of Comfort |
Mr. Torrington |
10 |
Barney the Baron |
Augustus |
11 |
The Bashful Irishman |
Pester |
12 |
Bathing |
John Beauchamp |
13 |
The Battle of the Inch |
M'Kay, M'Intosh |
14 |
The Bay of Biscay |
Tom Tunnell |
15 |
Betsy Baker |
Mr. Crummy |
16 |
The Beulah Spy |
Beauchamp |
17 |
The Birthplace of Podgers |
Edmund Earlybird |
18 |
Black Eyed Susan |
Seaweed, Lieutenant Pyke, Captain Crosstree |
19 |
A Blighted Being |
Ned Spanker |
20 |
The Blind Boy |
Prince Rodolph |
21 |
The Boarding School |
Lieutenant Varley, Captain Harcourt |
22 |
The Bohemians |
Paul Didier |
23 |
Book III, Chap. I |
Edmond de Mailly |
24 |
The Bonnie Fishwife |
Wildoates Heartycheer |
25 |
Boots at the Swan |
Henry Higgins, Frank Friskly |
26 |
Born to Good Luck |
Count Manfredi |
27 |
The Bottle Imp |
Albert |
28 |
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Captain Craigengelt |
29 |
A Bright To-Morrow |
Philip |
30 |
The British Legion |
Colonel Davenport |
31 |
The Cabin Boy |
Vincent |
32 |
The Cagot; or, Heart to Heart |
Antoine |
33 |
The Carpenter of Rouen |
De Saubigné |
34 |
The Castle Spectre |
Earl Percy |
35 |
Catching an Heiress |
Captain Killingly, Captain Poodle |
36 |
Catherine and Petruchio |
Hortensio, Biondello |
37 |
Charles XII |
King Charles |
38 |
The Charming Polly |
Nat Nowlan |
39 |
Clari, The Maid of Milan |
Duke Vivaldi |
40 |
Conrad and Medora (pantomime) |
Yussuf |
41 |
The Corsican Brothers |
Alfred Meynard, Baron de Montgiron |
42 |
Cramond Brig |
Tarn Maxwell, James Birkie, King James |
43 |
The Creole |
Alphonse de Nyon |
44 |
The Cricket on the Hearth |
Gruff Tackleton |
45 |
The Critic |
Dangle |
46 |
The Crown Prince |
Frederick Storke, Francis |
47 |
The Custom of the Country |
Frank |
48 |
Cymbeline |
Pisanio |
49 |
Daddy Hardacre |
Adolphus Jobling |
50 |
The Dancing Barber |
Alfred Fitzfrolic, Lord Mincington |
51 |
David Copperfield |
David Copperfield |
52 |
The Day After the Wedding |
Colonel Freelove, Lord Rivers |
53 |
Deaf as a Post |
Captain Templeton |
54 |
Diamond Cut Diamond |
Captain Seymour |
55 |
Dombey and Son |
Mr. Dombey |
56 |
Dominique the Deserter |
Count D'Anville |
57 |
Don Caesar de Bazan |
Don José |
58 |
Don Giovanni (extravaganza) |
Octavio |
59 |
Don't judge by Appearances |
Frank Topham |
60 |
Double Dummy |
John Timpkins |
61 |
Douglas |
Lord Randolph |
62 |
The Drapery Question |
Mr. Ogler |
63 |
The Dream at Sea |
Richard Penderell |
64 |
Dred |
Clayton |
65 |
The Drunkard's Doom |
Rudolphus |
66 |
The Dumb Maid of Genoa |
Count Corvenio, Antonio, Strapado |
67 |
The Dumb Man of Manchester |
Mr. Palmerston |
68 |
Ella Rosenberg |
Colonel Mountfort |
69 |
The Enchanted Lake (extravaganza) |
A Cook |
70 |
Esmeralda |
Claude Frollo |
71 |
The Eton Boy |
Captain Popham |
72 |
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining |
Charles Digit |
73 |
The Evil Genius |
Walmesley |
74 |
Extremes |
Frank Hawthorn |
75 |
The Fairy Circle |
Philip Blake |
76 |
The Falls of Clyde |
Kenmure |
77 |
A Fascinating lndividual |
Captain Thompson |
78 |
Fazio |
Philario |
79 |
The Fire Raiser |
Piers Talbot |
80 |
The Flowers of the Forest |
Linton, Leybourne, Captain Laverock, Alfred, Ishmael |
81 |
The Flying Dutchman |
Lieutenant Mowbray, Toby Varnish |
82 |
The Fortunes of Nigel |
Lord Dalgarno |
83 |
Forty and Fifty |
Altamont |
84 |
The Foundling of the Forest |
Baron Longueville |
85 |
Frankenstein |
Prince of Piombino |
86 |
Fraud and Its Victims |
Count de Valmore, Alfred Seabourne |
87 |
Frederick of Prussia |
Captain Niddermannersteinchwanchoingen |
88 |
Ici on Parle Français (French Before Breakfast) |
Victor Dubois |
89 |
The French Spy |
Didier |
90 |
The Gaberlunzie Man |
The Organist |
91 |
The Gamester |
Bates |
92 |
The Gentle Shepherd |
Sir William Worthey |
93 |
Gilderoy |
Carbine, Sergeant Musqueton, Gilderoy |
94 |
The Gipsy Farmer |
Luke Hatfield |
95 |
Giralda |
Don Manuel |
96 |
Good for Nothing |
Charley, Young Mr. Simpson, Harry Collier |
97 |
The Governor's Wife |
The Governor of Surinam |
98 |
Grandfather Whitehead |
Langley |
99 |
The Green Bushes |
Ned Keogh, George O'Kennedy |
100 |
The Green Hills of the Far West |
Marston |
101 |
Guy Mannering |
Henry Bertram, Dirk Hatterick, Colonel Mannering |
102 |
Gwynneth Vaughan |
Evan Pritchard |
103 |
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh |
Cyril Baliol |
104 |
Hamlet |
Guildenstern, Horatio, Claudius The Priest, The Ghost, Osric,
Laertes |
105 |
The Happiest Day of My Life |
Charles |
106 |
A Hard Struggle |
Fergus Graham |
107 |
Handy Andy |
Mr. Furlong |
108 |
The Heart of Midlothian |
Black Frank, Duke of Argyll, Reuben Butler |
109 |
Helping Hands |
Lord Quaverley |
110 |
High Life Below Stairs |
Philip |
111 |
His Last Legs |
Charles |
112 |
Honesty is the Best Policy |
Captain Lejoyeux |
113 |
The Honeymoon |
Lampedo, Lopez |
114 |
The Hunchback |
Lord Tinsel, Sir Thomas Clifford |
115 |
The Hunter of the Alps |
Marco |
116 |
Hunting a Turtle |
Smatter |
117 |
Ida May |
Kelly |
118 |
The Idiot Witness |
Earl of Sussex |
119 |
Ingomar |
Lykon, Myron |
120 |
The Invincibles |
Captain Florville |
121 |
Ireland As It Was |
Connor, M. Voyage |
122 |
Irish-A-Honey |
Malden |
123 |
Irish Assurance |
Captain Herbert |
124 |
The Irish Emigrant |
Henry Travers |
125 |
The Irish Lion |
Mackenzie, Captain Dixon |
126 |
The Irish Post |
George Lane |
127 |
The Irish Tiger |
Sir Charles Lavender |
128 |
The Irish Tutor |
Charles |
129 |
The Iron Chest |
Armstrong, Orson |
130 |
Isabelle |
Coquin |
131 |
Ivanhoe |
Sir Reginald Frondebouef |
132 |
Jack Robinson and His Monkey |
José Rimiero |
133 |
The Jacobite |
Sir Richard Wroughton |
134 |
Jane Shore |
Belmont |
135 |
Janet Pride |
George Heriot, Counsel for the prosecution |
136 |
The Jersey Girl |
Dumouchard |
136 |
Jessy Vere |
Sigismund Fanshawe |
138 |
Joan of Arc |
Florine |
139 |
John Overy |
Baron Fitzjeffrey, Mayfly |
140 |
Kenilworth (burlesque) |
Wayland Smith |
141 |
King Henry VIII |
Earl of Surrey |
142 |
King John |
Philip Faulconbridge, King of France |
143 |
King Lear |
Curan |
144 |
The King of the Peacocks (extravaganza) |
Franquille |
145 |
King Rene' s Daughter |
Sir Almeric |
146 |
The King's Musketeers |
Athos |
147 |
The King's Wager |
Colonel Vane |
148 |
The Knight of Arva |
Due de Charbonnes |
149 |
The Ladies' Battle |
Gustave de Grignon |
150 |
The Ladies' Club |
Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Bookly |
151 |
The Lady of Lyons |
Second Officer, Gervais, Beauseant, Claude Melnotte |
152 |
The Lady of the Lake |
Malcolm Graeme |
153 |
The Lamplighter |
Philip Arnold |
154 |
The Last Man |
Henry Wentworth |
155 |
The Laughing Hyena |
Simon Hornblower |
156 |
Like and Unlike |
Louis |
157 |
Little Bo-Peep (pantomime) |
Scruncher (The Wolf) |
158 |
Little Dorrit |
Sparkler |
159 |
The Little Treasure |
Sir Charles Howard, Captain Waiter Maydenblush |
160 |
The Loan of a Lover |
Captain Amersfort |
161 |
London Assurance |
Charles Courtly, Dazzle |
162 |
The Lonely Man of the Ocean |
Wyndham Bowyer |
163 |
Lord Darnley |
Lord Darnley, Earl Lumley, Will Eliott |
164 |
The Lost Husband |
Lorain |
165 |
The Lost Ship |
Ned Martin |
166 |
The Lottery Ticket |
Charles |
167 |
Louis XI |
Tristan, Coitier |
168 |
Love |
Ulrick |
169 |
The Love Chase |
Neville, Master Waller |
170 |
Lucille |
André |
171 |
Luke the Labourer |
Squire Chase, Charles Maydew |
172 |
Macbeth |
Seyton, Rosse, Banquo, Macduff |
173 |
The Maid and the Magpie (burlesque) |
Fernando, Villabella |
174 |
The Maid With the Milking Pail |
Algernon |
175 |
The Man of the World |
Egerton |
176 |
The Man With the Carpet Bag |
Wrangle |
177 |
The Man With the Iron Mask |
D'Aubigné |
178 |
Marianne the Vivandière |
Gaston de Montclar |
179 |
Marie Antoinette |
Count de Provence |
180 |
Marie Ducange |
Markland |
181 |
The Marble Heart |
Frederick de Courcy |
182 |
Marriage A Lottery |
Herbert Manifest |
183 |
Married Life |
Frederick Younghusband, Lionel Lynx |
184 |
Mary, Queen of Scots |
Lord Lyndsay, Jasper Drysdale |
185 |
Masaniello (burlesque) |
Selva |
186 |
Masks and Faces |
Snarl, Soaper |
187 |
Matteo Falcone |
Brozzo, Gianetto, Sampiero |
188 |
The May Queen |
Secretary Sampson |
189 |
Medea |
Jason |
190 |
Memoirs of the Devil |
De Ferney |
191 |
Memorandums in the Red Book |
Count de Cerny |
192 |
Mephistopheles (extravaganza) |
Marquis de Brancador |
193 |
The Merchant of Venice |
Salarino, Bassanio |
194 |
Michel Erle |
Phillip D'Arville |
195 |
Midas (burlesque) |
Jupiter |
196 |
The Middle Temple |
Briefless |
197 |
The Middy Ashore |
Mr. Tonnish |
198 |
The Midnight Watch |
Antoine Deval |
199 |
The Miller of Whetstone |
Fabian Leslie |
200 |
The Miller's Maid |
George |
201 |
The Milliners' Holiday |
Lieutenant Bowling |
202 |
Mind Your Own Business |
Mowbray |
203 |
Mischief Making |
Henri Desgrais |
204 |
The Momentous Question |
James Greenfield |
205 |
Money |
Captain Dudley Smooth |
206 |
Mother and Child are Doing Well |
Maxwell |
207 |
Mr. and Mrs. Pringle |
John Brush |
208 |
The Muleteer of Toledo |
Don Pedro |
209 |
Music Hath Charms |
Adrien |
210 |
My Aunt's Husband |
Captain Touchwood |
211 |
My Poll and My Partner Joe |
Oakheart |
212 |
My Precious Betsy |
Langford |
213 |
The Mysterious Stranger |
Captain Gasconade |
214 |
My Wife's Mother |
Edward Waverley |
215 |
The Nervous Man |
Captain Burnish |
216 |
Nicholas Nickleby |
Nicholas, Mantellini |
217 |
No. 1 Round the Corner |
Flipper |
218 |
Norah Creina |
Ned O'Grady |
219 |
Not A Bad Judge |
Marquis de Treval |
220 |
Not To Be Done |
Jonas Downeywag |
221 |
Nothing Venture, Nothing Win |
Duke of Vendome |
222 |
An Object of Interest |
Sydenham Simmerton |
223 |
The Ocean of Life |
Hal Harsfield |
224 |
The Old Gentleman |
Charles Benedict |
225 |
Old Joe and Young Joe |
Frederick |
226 |
Oliver Twist |
Monks, Leeford |
227 |
The Orphan of Glencoe |
Colonel Campbell |
228 |
Othello |
Messenger, Montana, Cassio |
229 |
Our Gal |
Henry Seymour |
230 |
Our Mary Anne |
Colonel Albert |
231 |
Our Wife |
The Marquis de Ligny |
232 |
Paddy Miles' s Boy |
Henry |
233 |
The Padlock |
Leander |
234 |
The Patrician's Daughter |
Lister |
235 |
Paul Pry |
Harry Stanley |
236 |
Perdita; or, The Royal Milkmaid (burlesque) |
Camillo |
237 |
Perfection |
Charles Paragon |
238 |
Perourou, The Bellows Mender |
Felix Raymond |
239 |
Peter Bell, The Waggoner |
Dubois |
240 |
The Pilot |
Lieutenant Griffiths, Captain Manson, The Pilot |
241 |
A Pleasant Neighbour |
Sir George |
242 |
Plot and Passion |
Berthier, M. de Cevennes |
243 |
Pluto and Proserpine (burlesque) |
Minos |
244 |
A Poor Girl's Temptation |
Walter Warren |
245 |
The Porter's Knot |
Augustus Burr |
246 |
P.P.; or The Man and the Tiger |
Lieutenant Fusile, Mr. Somerhill |
247 |
Prince Charles Edward Stuart |
Prince Charles |
248 |
A Prince for an Hour |
Colonel Pazzi |
249 |
Puss in Boots (pantomime) |
An Ogre, A Demon |
250 |
Quake, Shake and Simon |
Bolding |
251 |
Queen Mary's Bower |
Lieutenant Wentworth |
252 |
Raby Rattler |
Frank Floss |
253 |
The Ragpicker of Paris |
Count St. Fruilan, Baron Hoffman |
254 |
Raymond and Agnes |
Raymond, Jacques |
255 |
The Rendezvous |
Bolding |
256 |
The Rent Day |
Toby Heywood |
257 |
The Revenge |
Carlos |
258 |
The Review |
Captain Beaugard |
259 |
Richard III |
Catesby, Henry VI, Richmond |
260 |
Richelieu |
Due d'Orléans, Louis XIII |
261 |
The Rifle Brigade |
Captain Nugent |
262 |
The Rival Pages |
Marquis de Preville |
263 |
The Rivals |
Fag, Faulkland, Captain Absolute |
264 |
Robert Macaire |
Charles Dumont |
265 |
Robert The Bruce |
Comyn |
266 |
Robinson Crusoe |
Jack Wind |
267 |
Rob Roy |
Francis Osbaldiston, Rashleigh Osbaldiston, Rob Roy |
268 |
A Roland for an Oliver |
The Gamekeeper, Alfred Highflyer |
269 |
Romeo and Juliet |
Paris, Tybalt |
270 |
Rory O'More |
De Lacy |
271 |
Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife |
Alonzo, The Duke |
272 |
Rural Felicity |
Unit |
273 |
Saint Clair of the Isles |
Roskelyn |
274 |
St. Mary's Eve |
Robert Vaughan |
275 |
St. Patrick's Eve |
Francis, Baron Trenck |
276 |
Samuel in Search of Himself |
Samuel |
277 |
Sandy McDonald |
Harry Frampton |
278 |
The Scholar |
Frederick |
279 |
The School for Scandal |
Careless |
280 |
The Secret |
Dupuis |
281 |
Self Accusation |
Luke Brandon |
282 |
The Sentinel |
Prince |
283 |
The Serious Family |
Frank Vincent |
284 |
She Stoops to Conquer |
Jeremy |
285 |
Shocking Events |
Captain Spoff |
286 |
The Siamese Twins |
Captain Vivid |
287 |
Simpson and Co. |
Mr. Bromley |
288 |
Single Life |
Charles Chester, Narcissus Boss |
289 |
Sixteen String Jack |
Horace Mordaunt |
290 |
The Slave |
Somerdyke |
291 |
The Sleeping Beauty (pantomime) |
Venoma [a female part] |
292 |
The Soldier's Daughter |
Young Malfort, Frank Heartall |
293 |
Somebody Else |
Hans Moritz |
294 |
La Somnambula (burlesque) |
Count Rodolpho |
295 |
The Somnambulist |
M. de Rosembert |
296 |
The Son of the Night |
Count D'Orbani |
297 |
The Spectre Bridegroom |
Captain Vauntington, Mr. Nicodemus |
298 |
The Spitalfields Weaver |
Darville |
299 |
The Spitfire |
Captain Shortcut |
300 |
The Spoiled Child |
Tagg |
301 |
Spring Gardens |
Lord Lovel |
302 |
State Secrets |
Calverton Hall |
303 |
Still Waters Run Deep |
Dunbilk |
304 |
The Stranger |
Count Wintersen, Francis |
305 |
Susan Hopley |
Andrew Hopley |
306 |
Sweethearts and Wives |
Sandford, Charles Franklin |
307 |
The Taming of the Shrew |
Hortensio, Biondello, Petruchio |
308 |
Teddy the Tiler |
Henry |
309 |
Therese; or, The Orphan of Geneva |
Fontaine |
310 |
Time Tries All |
Charles Clinton, Matthew Bates |
311 |
Tom Cringle |
Alfred, Mat Ironhand |
312 |
The Toodles |
George Acorn, Fenton |
313 |
The Trumpeter's Daughter |
Philliput |
314 |
'Twas I |
Delorme |
315 |
The Two Gregories |
John Bull |
316 |
The Vagrant |
Maillard |
317 |
Victims |
Herbert Fitzherbert |
318 |
Victorine |
Macaire |
319 |
The Virginia Mummy |
Charles |
320 |
Virginius |
Appius Claudius, Soldier |
321 |
Wallace: The Hero of Scotland |
Monteith |
322 |
The Wandering Boys |
Gregoire, Comte de Croissy, Roland |
323 |
Wanted 1,000 Milliners |
Tom Tipton |
324 |
Warlock of the Glen |
Clanronald |
325 |
The Water Witches |
Charles Chester |
326 |
Where There's a Will |
Don Lopez, Don Scipio |
327 |
The Widow's Victim |
Mr. Twitter |
328 |
The Wife: A Tale of Mantua |
Count Florio, Leonardo Gonzago |
329 |
William Tell |
Michael, Gessler |
330 |
The Winter's Tale |
Cleomenes, The Third Gentleman, Florizel |
331 |
The Woman Hater |
Frederick |
332 |
The Wonder |
Frederick |
333 |
The Wraith of the Lake |
Charles Alison |
334 |
The Wreck Ashore |
Walter Barnard |
335 |
The Writing on the Wall |
Sir Philip Eaton, Richard Oliver |
336 |
The Young Mother |
Frank Melrose |
337 |
The Young Scamp |
Arthur |
338 |
Your Life's in Danger |
Krakwitz |
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Sources
Brereton, A. The Life of Henry Irving, vols.
1-2. London, etc.: Longman's, Green and Co., 1908.
Irving, L. Henry Irving: The Actor and His World. New
York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.
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