Henry M. Milner
{{Short description|British playwright}}
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| name = Henry M. Milner
| period = 19th century
| genre = Melodrama; Popular tragedy
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Henry M. Milner was a 19th-century British playwright and author of melodramas and popular tragedies.{{cite web |url=http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Milner/milnertp.html |title=Henry M. Milner |accessdate=2008-07-08 |last= |first= |date= |publisher=upenn.edu}} Milner wrote numerous plays, including two popular equestrian dramas/hippodramas featuring live horses on stage. These are: Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary (which was based on Lord Byron's 1819 poem), which kicked off a wave of interest in the legend and Dick Turpin's Ride to York; or, Bonny black Bess, about the famous highwayman and his horse. Both of these plays included great spectacle in performance and enjoyed great popular success during the mid to late nineteenth century. ' 'Mazeppa' ' was extremely popular and often produced; it is recalled as one of, if not the most, significant and popular equestrian drama of all time.Poppiti, Kimberly. (2018) A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States. New York: Routledge.
Another of Milner's noteworthy and successful works is, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein, with O. Smith as The Monster and which opened on 3 July 1826 at the Royal Coburg Theatre (now known as The Old Vic), eight years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published.{{cite web |url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/smchron3.html |title=A Chronology of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 1825-1835 |accessdate=2008-07-08 |last=Lawson |first=Shanon |date=1998-02-11 |publisher=umd.edu |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912011446/http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/smchron3.html |url-status=dead }} subsequent film adaptations follow Milner's example, in making Frankenstein's monstrous creation a pivotal scene.{{Citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4b6OA48mYrUC&dq=%22Henry+M.+Milner%22+-Rideout&pg=PA208 |title=Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ |last=Leitch |first=Thomas M. |year=2007 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Md. |pages=207 |isbn=978-0-8018-8565-5}}
See also
- Dick Turpin's Ride to York, 1922 film
Partial list of works
File:Houghton TS Promptbook - Milner, Frankenstein.jpg
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1800 |title=Victorine: the maid of Paris : a domestic drama, in four acts. 19th century British drama, no. 430. London: J. Dicks. |oclc=222048541}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |title=The gambler's fate; or, Thirty years in a gamester's life. A drama, in two acts. New York: Samuel French. |oclc=2325482}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |author2=Byron, G. G. B. |name-list-style=amp |title=Mazeppa; or, The wild horse of Tartary. A romantic drama, in three acts. Dramatised from Lord Byron's poem by H.M. Milner, and adapted to the stage under the direction of Mr. Ducrow. London: Dicks. |oclc=31254994}} (See Cultural legacy of Mazeppa#The 1830s-1860s)
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |title=Gustavus the third, or, the masked ball! Collection of American and English plays, v. 69. London: J. Duncombe. |oclc=77535789}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |author2=Scott, W. |name-list-style=amp |title=The fair maid of Perth; or, The battle of the inch; a...drama in three acts; founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel. London: Lacy. |oclc=80915660}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1818 |title=Plays: (submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office). |oclc=81211080}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |title=Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, England), Payne, J. H., & Bishop, H. R. (1824). Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, June 12, 1824, will be acted, a comedy in one act, called Twelve precisely ... after which (8th time) a new comedy, in three acts, (with some musick) called Charles the Second, or, The merry monarch, the musick composed by Mr. Bishop ... to which will be added (2d time) the revived musical entertainment of Brother and sister, the musick composed by Mr. Bishop. [London]: Printed by W. Reynolds. |oclc=84587683}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1826 |title=Frankenstein, or, The man and the monster: a melo drama in two acts ... as performed at the London theatres. London: J. Duncombe &. |oclc=81989936}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1830 |title=Masaniello, or, The dumb girl of Portici a musical drama, in three acts. New-York: R.H. Elton. |oclc=53994379}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |author2=Ducange, V. |name-list-style=amp|date=1872 |title=The hut of the red mountain, or, Thirty years of a gambler's life: a drama in three acts. London: S. French. |oclc=14959371}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1872 |title=The veteran of 102 years, or, Five generations: a drama in one act. London: S. French. |oclc=14959381}}
- {{citation |author=Milner, H. M. |date=1885 |title=Turpin's Ride to York: or, Bonny Black Bess, etc. London. |oclc=84779576}}
References
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External links
- [http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Milner/milnertp.html "Frankenstein: or The Man and the Monster." A Romantic Melo-Drama, in Two Acts. FOUNDED PRINCIPALLY ON MRS. SHELLEY'S SINGULAR WORK ENTITLED "FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS" And partly on the French piece, "Le Magicien et le Monstre."]- at University of Pennsylvania
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