Who Was Dracula? (30 page)

Land Beyond the Forest, The
(Gerard), 108

Lawrence, D. H., 194

Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan, 29–31, 88, 99, 106

Leatherdale, Clive, 276

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman), 33–34, 69, 192–93, 198, 202

Lee, Christopher, 117

Lewis, Leopold, 40

Liberal Party, 161

Lincoln, Abraham, 156, 194

Lion King, The
(musical), 293

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
, 227

Liszt, Franz, 200

Little Theatre (London), 279–80, 285–87

Littlechild, John G., 163–64, 238

Liveright, Horace, 288–89

Livingstone, David, 101

Lockwood, Frank, 242

Lodger, The
(Evans and Gainey), 160

London
Daily Chronicle
, 229

London
Daily Telegraph
, 126, 136, 147, 247

London
Star
, 146, 247

London
Times
, 272–73, 286

Los Angeles Times
, 292

Louis XI
(Boucicault), 44

Lovecraft, H. P., 129, 130, 272

Lovejoy, H. J., 9, 67, 119, 141

Lowther, Aimee, 215, 249

Ludlam, Harry, 112–13, 271

Lugosi, Bela, 2, 117, 289, 291–94

Lyceum Theatre (London), 21, 57, 104, 135, 161, 168, 175–76, 220, 254, 268, 293, 298

Beefsteak Room at, xiv, 66–68, 100, 101, 149, 165, 210, 212, 279

copyright performances at, 118–26, 195, 257

Deane's
Dracula
at, 293

decline and collapse of, xv, 258–60, 268

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
at, 141–43, 146–49, 223

extras at, 55–56, 58–59

Faust
produced at, 6–19, 48, 137

fire in storage building of, 180–81, 257

grand-scale productions at, 5–6, 58–59

leased by Irving, 40, 45

Shaw and, 174

Stoker as Irving's Acting Manager at, xi, xiv, 7, 8, 43, 49–50, 62–64, 71, 97, 110, 118–20, 128, 167, 172, 174, 180, 183–84, 256–60, 279

Terry at, 45–48, 51, 54–56, 60–62, 236

Wilde at, 50–51, 56, 207, 213, 232

Lyons Mail, The
(Reade), 139, 184

Macbeth
(Shakespeare), 60–61, 130, 172, 181, 281

MacKaye, Steele, 135

Madame Sans-Gêne
(Sardou and Moreau), 123

Magyarland
(Mazzuchelli), 109

Man, The
(Stoker), 269

Manfred
(Byron), 251

Mansfield, Richard, 133, 139–43, 148, 151, 152, 223, 224

Manxman, The
(Caine), 65

March, Fredric, 140

McClellan, General George, 156

McKinley, William, 68

McNally, Raymond T., 113–16

Medicine Man, The
(Traill and Hichens), 182, 210, 233

melodramas, 32–33, 52, 65, 119

French, 32, 40

Irving's taste for, 68, 97–98, 140, 172, 301

Victorian, 10, 12, 40, 58

Merchant of Venice, The
(Shakespeare), 6, 46, 53, 60, 62, 66, 171, 181, 184

Merry Wives of Windsor, The
(Shakespeare), 236

Meyer, Stephenie, 297

Miller, Elizabeth, 112, 116, 276

Milton, John, 251

Miniter, Edith Dowe, 129

Miss Betty
(Stoker), 72, 257

Moore, Nellie, 39

Morning Post
, 286

Morrell, Charles, 287

Much Ado About Nothing
(Shakespeare), 53–54

Muhammad, 65

Mummy, The
(film), 292

Murnau, F. W., 283, 284

Murray, Paul, 45, 255, 275

Mystery of the Sea, The
(Stoker), 269

Nandris, Grigore, 113

Napoleon, Emperor of France, 123

Neilson, Julia, 248

Neue Freie Presse
, 211

Newlove, Henry, 217

New Way to Pay Old Debts, A
(Massinger), 25

New York
Daily Mirror
, 290

New York Herald
,
The,
101, 269

New York Times, The
, 140, 160, 237

New York
World
, 160, 163, 164

New Yorker, The
, 290

Nichols, Mary Ann (Polly), 144–45

Nineteenth Century
magazine, 107

Nineteenth Century and After, The
, 204

Nodier, Charles, 32

Nosferatu
(film), 283–85

“O Captain! My Captain!” (Whitman), 194

On the Track of the Crescent
(Johnson), 109

Opera Comique (London), 141

Othello
(Shakespeare), 5, 44, 51, 169, 172, 281

Our Natupski Neighbors
(Miniter), 129

Oxford University, 213, 216, 230, 231

Pall Mall Gazette, The,
127, 134, 147, 161, 163

Parliament, British, 44, 161, 218, 234

Passmore, Herbert, 123

Patience
(Gilbert and Sullivan), 214, 215

Patrick, Dora Mary, 286–87

Pattinson, Robert, 118

Peer Gynt
(Ibsen), 149

“Penny Dreadful” novels, 88

“Pensive on Her Dead Gazing” (Whitman), 194–95

Perry, Dennis R., 192, 196, 197

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
(Stoker), 21–23, 201, 204, 207, 209–12, 267–68, 273

Peter the Great
(Irving), 181, 184

Petherick, William, 109

Phelps, Samuel, 169

Philadelphia Press, The,
202

Picture of Dorian Gray, The
(Wilde), 227–31, 233

Poe, Edgar Allan, 40, 132

Poetics
(Aristotle), 204

Polanski, Roman, xi

Polidori, John, 31, 251

“Portrait of Mr. W.H., The” (Wilde), 218–21, 224, 226, 230–32, 270

Prana Film, 283

Price, Vincent, 282

Prince Karl
(Gunter), 148

Prodigal Son, The
(Caine), 65

Protestantism, 24, 25

Pygmalion
(Shaw), 174

Queen's Theatre (London), 44

Queensberry, Marquess of, 233–39, 241, 247

Redford, George, 125

Reynolds, Tom, 123

Rice, Anne, 296

Richard III
(Shakespeare), 6, 8, 53, 170, 172, 180

Richardson, Maurice, 296

Richelieu, Cardinal, 172

Ricketts, Charles, 249

Rider Publishers, 269–70

Rivals, The
(Sheridan), 26

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène, 25

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare), 172

Ronay, Gabriel, 296

Roosevelt, Theodore, 68

Rosebery, Earl of, 175, 234–35

Rosenbach Library, 97, 114

Ross, Robbie, 219

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 64

Rossetti, William Michael, 34

Round About the Carpathians
(Crosse), 109

Royal Institution, 177

Royal Literary Fund, 272

Sadler's Wells Theatre (London), 169

St. James Gazette
, 229

St. James Theatre (London), 26, 232, 236

Salome
(Wilde), 232

San Francisco
Wave
, 128, 139

Sargent, John Singer, 61

Saturday Press
, 193

“Scented Herbage of My Breast” (Whitman), 195–96

Schaffer, Talia, 243–44

Scotland Yard, 160, 163, 164, 216

Scots Observer, The,
229

Scott, Clement, 172, 247

Selbit, P. T., 287

Sequel to Drum-Taps
(Whitman), 194

Sexual Inversion
(Ellis and Symonds), 214

Shakespeare, William, 7, 46, 54, 58, 219, 227, 268.
See also titles of plays

Shaw, George Bernard, 9, 54, 149, 173–74, 177, 179–80, 210, 237, 254, 267

Shelley, Mary, 32, 132, 136, 283

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 32

Shepard, Leslie, 274

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 26

Sherlock Holmes
, 183

Shoulder of Shasta, The
(Stoker), 52–53, 256–57

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 113

Skal, David, 167, 282, 296–97

Smith, F. B., 162

Smith, W. H., 230

Snake's Pass, The
(Stoker), 52

Society of Authors, 283

Somerset, Arthur, 217, 218

“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 196

Spectator
, 126–27, 136, 137, 267

Spider, The
(Oursler and Brentano), 289

Stanley, Henry Morton, xiv, 101–2, 200

Stead, W. T., 161

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 137–41, 146

Stoker, Abraham, Sr. (father), 24–26

Stoker, Bram

in America, xvi, 68–71, 198, 201–203, 206, 256

birth of, 24

and brother's knighthood, 174–75

Caine and, 65

childhood of, 23–24

civil service career of, 25, 27, 256

courtship of Florence by, 43

death of, 272–75

dinners hosted by Irving and, xiv–xv, 66–68, 149, 165, 279

education of, 24–26, 28, 29, 33, 188

family background of, 24

on farewell tour, 263–64

financial concerns of, 268, 272, 275

first meeting of Irving and, 23, 36–37, 39, 153

friendship of Wilde family and, 27–29, 31

health problems of, 268, 272, 274–75

as Irving's Acting Manager at Lyceum Theatre, xi, xiv, 7, 8, 43, 49–50, 60, 62–64, 71, 97, 110, 128, 167, 172, 174, 180–84, 256–60, 279

and Irving's death, 265–67, 269

at Irving's Dublin performances, 26, 35, 45

and Irving's
Faust
, 13–15, 18–19

and Irving's knighthood, 174–77

and Irving's sycophants, 70–72, 210

Jack the Ripper and, 133–34, 165–66

marriage and family life of, 45, 49–51, 72, 106, 216, 244, 274

stage appearances of, 26, 58–60

Terry and, 47–49

as theatrical reviewer, 26, 30, 31

vampire mythology defined and refined by, 88–89, 108, 225

Whitman's influence on, 33–35, 68–70, 188–92, 194–203, 206

Wilde and, 51, 207, 211–13, 215–17, 231, 243–45, 248–50, 256

works of,
see titles of books and stories

Stoker, Charlotte (née Thornley), 24, 131–32

Stoker, Dacre (great-grandnephew), xi

Stoker, Florence (née Balcombe; wife), 42, 49–50, 55–56, 72, 97, 106, 209, 225, 232, 274

copyright infringement complaint against
Nosferatu
brought by, 283–85

and Deane's
Dracula
, 285, 287–88, 292

death of, 293

Dracula
dedicated to, 257

at Little Theatre production of
Dracula
, 279–82

short story collection compiled by, 272, 275–77

Wilde's courtship of, 42–43, 211, 216, 217, 245, 250, 282

Stoker, George (brother), 90

Stoker, Irving Noel Thornley (son), 49, 51, 72, 97, 106, 209–10, 272, 282

Stoker, Thornley (brother), 26, 43, 49, 85, 177–78, 275

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
(Stevenson), 137–39

stage adaptation of, 139–43, 146–49, 151, 223

Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, 67, 165

Sullivan, Arthur, 50, 177, 214

Sullivan, Thomas Russell, 139

Swinscow, Charles, 217

Symonds, John Addington, 214

Tabram, Martha, 143–44

Teblin, William, 104

“Tell-Tale Heart, The” (Poe), 40

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 55, 64, 69, 119, 177, 281

Tepes, Vlad (Vovoide Dracul), xv–xvi, 100–101, 113–16

Terry, Ellen, 12, 15, 45, 54–56, 64, 70, 171–75, 178–80, 293

at copyright performance of
Dracula
script, 123

Irving and, 46–49, 53–54, 172–73, 179–80, 242, 259–61, 263

Shakespearean roles of, 46–48, 60–61, 66, 98, 172, 182, 281, 293

Shaw and, 9, 54, 173, 174, 179–80, 211

Wilde and, 9, 207, 211–15, 235, 240, 249

Terry, Fred, 235, 247–48

Theatre Royal (Dublin), 25, 26, 33

Theory of Dreams, The
(Gray), 109

Thring, G. Herbert, 283

Tichborne Claimant, 270

Times Literary Supplement
, 279

Towse, John Ranken, 140

Traill, H. D., 182

Transylvania: Its Products and Its Peoples
(Boner), 109

Traubel, Horace, 191

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 182, 183, 222, 224, 235–36

“Trickle Drops” (Whitman), 195

Trilby
(Tree), 174, 182, 210

Trinity College, 25, 26, 28–30, 33–35, 51, 188–90, 201, 202, 238, 253

Truth
(journal), 44, 161, 162, 216, 247

Tumblety, Francis, 133, 154–64, 166, 238

Twain, Mark, 68

Twilight
series (Myer), 297

Two Roses
(play), 26, 39

Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 219

Uncle Silas
(Le Fanu), 29–30

Under the Sunset
(Stoker), 51–52, 213

Universal Studios, 290–92

Valentino, Rudolph, 289

Vambery, Arminius, xiv, 99–100, 114

Vampire, The
(Boucicault), 32–33

Vampire, Le
(Dumas), 32

Vampire Bride, The
(Blink), 32

Vampire Chronicles, The
(Rice), 296

Vampyre, The
(Polidori), 31–32, 251

Van Sloan, Edward, 291

Varney the Vampire
(Rymer), 88, 251

Vaudeville Theatre (London), 39

Vera; or, The Nihilists
(Wilde), 51

Vicar of Wakefield, The
(Merington), 46

Victoria, Queen, 8, 28, 58, 62, 66, 175, 177, 178, 218

Victorian era, xi, xii, xvi, 1, 3, 8, 19, 89, 101, 135, 211, 270, 295

euphemisms used in, 37

melodramas of, 10, 12, 40, 58, 65

novelists of, 64–65, 72, 137

prudishness of, 130–31, 207, 212, 214, 218

social graces in, 51

Vogue
, 290

Wandrei, Donald, 129