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- Title
Louder Than Words? Actions and Reactions in James's Guy Domville.
- Authors
MacCormack, Dee
- Abstract
At the first night of James's play Guy Domville in January 1895, some members of the audience booed James as he took his author's bow. This single event has come to dominate James's dramatic legacy resulting in a widely held belief that the result was a humiliating retreat from the theater and an end to James's dramatic ambitions. This essay will examine the history behind that belief and, by presenting a factual account of the production and performance of James's play, contextualized within the nineteenth-century theater, will contradict the accepted critical narrative of the play as an irredeemable failure.
- Subjects
JAMES, Henry, 1843-1916; GUY Domville (Theatrical production); THEATERS; BELIEF &; doubt; NARRATIVES
- Publication
Henry James Review, 2023, Vol 44, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0273-0340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hjr.2023.0008