Plays by William Hooker Gillette
All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes

This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899).

Don B. Wilmeth (Author), Rosemary Cullen (Author)

9780521284318, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 1983

288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. Gillette also adapted foreign plays for the American stage and wrote strong melodramas and spy stories in which he frequently appeared himself. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899). Gillette's sure grasp of the keys to theatrical success, together with his technical innovations, makes him an interesting and important theatre figure. In his time, as playwright and player, he achieved a new combination of melodramatic suspense with a cool, understated acting style. These three plays represent the range of his dramatic talent.

All the Comforts of Home
Secret Service
Sherlock Holmes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]