5/18/2023 0 Comments Shadowplay 2021![]() “Effervescent…Shadowplay is far more than a frothy entertainment. ★ “O’Connor’s characters are magnificently realized…This novel blows the dust off its Victorian trappings and brings them to scintillating life.”-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) ![]() ★ “An affectionate, tender story about everyday heroism, secret selves, and triumphs and tragedies on stage and in life and the many kinds of love that bind us together.”-Library Journal (Starred Review) ![]() It’s rich, dense and beautifully written.”-Brendan Coyle, star of Downton Abbey, in The Chicago Tribune As Irving’s Lyceum theater grows in reputation, he first lures to his company a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker, and then entices the century’s most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but on Stoker and Irving both.īram Stoker’s extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre inspire him to write Dracula,the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater impresario. Set during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor.
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