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Reviews of The Ironmaster Arthur Wing Pinero’s authorised adaptation of Georges Ohnet’s play, Le Maître de Forges, with the title The Ironmaster, opened on 17th April, 1884 at the St. James’s Theatre. Robert Buchanan’s unauthorised version, Lady Clare, which was produced a year earlier, receives a passing mention in most of the first night reviews below but only the reviewer in The Era seems to prefer Buchanan’s version:
“We pass by the Lady Clare of Mr Robert Buchanan, because that gentleman, rightly or wrongly, claims for his piece the merit of almost entire originality; but we shall not pass it without saying that he did improve on the original, and that his impertinence—if impertinence it was—had good excuse.” The Times (18 April, 1884 - p.9) |
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