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From Roy Nash, ‘The Theatre Today and Yesterday According to George Bernard Shaw‘, Manchester Evening News, 6 December 1938. Tom Taylor (1817–80), dramatist, editor of Punch, professor of English and public servant, wrote more than seventy plays in popular nineteenth-century forms for the London theatres. His Plot and Passion was first presented at the Olympic Theatre, London, in 1853. Thomas Chiswell King (1818–93), actor, was first engaged at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in 1851, and became a favourite leading actor there until 1856.
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Gibbs, A.M. (1990). ‘The First Play I Ever Saw’. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_227
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