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George Moore

GEORGE MOORE  (1852 - 1933)

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George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852  21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and Dramatist best known as a master of English prose, but he also wrote plays, usually in collaboration with other authors, and occasionally based on or on the precursors of his own novels, the best known of which are probably Diarmuid and Grania (with W.B.Yeats), the Strike at Arlingford, and the Bending of the Bough (based on Edward Martyn's the Tale of a Town).
For the most part only the first editions of Moore's works are listed here, but many were revised each time they were republished. For a complete listing of Moore's publications, therefore, see Edwin Gilcher, A Bibliography of George Moore (Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1970), and Edwin Gilcher, assisted by the shared expertise of Robert S. Becker and Clinton K. Krauss, Supplement to A Bibliography of George Moore (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler Corporation, and Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1988).
http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/" target="_blank">pp 366-368, Selected plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn, Colin Smythe Limited, 1995

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         Apostle, The         Bending of the Bough, The         Coming of Gabrielle, The         Diarmuid and Grania         Elizabeth Cooper         Esther Waters         Fashionable Beauty, The         Fool's Hour, The         Honeymoon in Eclipse, The         Journeys End in Lovers Meeting         Le Sycomore         Making of an Immortal, The         Martin Luther         Minister's Call, The         Passing of the Essenes, The         Strike at Arlingford, The         therese Raquin         Three Lovers, The         Worldliness

Apostle, The

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Scenario published to protect the idea later developed in his novel, the Brook Kerith, 1916. Expanded edition, based on the unpublished the Brook Kerith, A Spiritual Drama, written in collaboration with John Lloyd Balderston, further revised, And published by William Heinemann in 1923; rewritten As the Passing of the Essenes

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Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1911   -

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Bending of the Bough, The

Bending of the Bough, The
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Rewritten version of Edward Martyn's the Tail of A Town

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Organisations:
Irish Literary Theatre

1st Published:
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900
Selected plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn, Colin Smythe Limited, 1995   978-0-86140-144-1

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Coming of Gabrielle, The

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1st Produced:
St James's Theatre, London    17 Jul 1923

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Leon Lion

1st Published:
privately printed for subscribers only by the Society of Irish Folklore, 1920
Selected plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn, Colin Smythe Limited, 1995   978-0-86140-144-1

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Diarmuid and Grania

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(with W.B. Yeats) produced for the Irish Literary theatre by the F.R. Benson Company At the Gaiety theatre, Dublin, 1901. Published in April-June 1951 issue of the Dublin Magazine, And As A limited edition of 25 copies with An introductory note by William Becker, in April 1951. the song by Yeats 'there Are Seven that Pull the Thread' published in 1902 with music by Edward Elgar does not Appear in this version, which Appears to be A later one than that used for the production.

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Published in April-June 1951 issue of the Dublin Magazine   -

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Elizabeth Cooper

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Adapted by Edouard Dujardin And translated As Clara Florise, produced At the Comedie Royal, Paris, in 1914, And serialised in L' Afrique du Nord Illustrie in 1920. English version rewrite And re-titled As the Coming of Gabrielle

1st Produced:
Haymarket theatre    22 Jun 1913

Organisations:
Stage Society

1st Published:
Dublin and London: Maunsel & Co., 1913   -

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Esther Waters

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with Lennox Robinson. A Dramatization of part of his novel of the same name. As early As 1906 Moore had been working with Edward Knoblock And Robinson on A version.

1st Produced:
Apollo Theatre, London    10 Dec 1911

Organisations:
Stage Society

1st Published:
London: William Heinemann, 1913.   -

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Fashionable Beauty, The

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with Henry Glover. It is often stated that Henry Paulton was Moore's collaborator on this play, but Glover's name is given in contemporary references to the play And on the manuscript preserved in the Lord Chamberlain's papers now in the British Library.

1st Produced:
Avenue Theatre, London    07 Apr 1887

Organisations:
produced by Violet Melnot

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unpublished   -

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Fool's Hour, The

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(by John Oliver Hobbes And Moore), in the Yellow Book, London, 1894. Apparently never completed. Never produced.

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Honeymoon in Eclipse, The

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(Dramatisation of story by Mrs G.W. Godfrey), the production was not licenced by the Lord Chamberlain

1st Produced:
St George's Hall, London    12 Apr 1888

Organisations:
the Strolling Players

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unpublished   -

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Journeys End in Lovers Meeting

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with John Oliver Hobbes. Based on A play by Caraquell. Played from time to time by Ellen Terry As A curtain raiser, starting 5 June 1895

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Printed in an unlocated pamphlet in 1894, and without listing Moore as co-author in her Tales about Temperaments, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902.   -

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Le Sycomore

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(French translation of W.S. Gilbert's play Sweet-hearts, by Moore And Paul Alexis)

1st Produced:
Comedie Francaise, Paris    20 Sep 1894

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A copy of the script is preserved in Archives de France, Dossier F18 727, No. 17223 at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

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Making of an Immortal, The

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with incidental music by Sir Thomas Beecham, Sybil Thorndike as Queen Elizabeth, and Charles Laughton as Jonson

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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, London    01 Apr 1928

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New York: the Bowling Green Press, and London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1927. Edited for publication by John Eglinton   -

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Martin Luther

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(with Bernard Lopez)

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London: Remington & Co., 1897.   -

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Minister's Call, The

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(Dramatisation of Frank Harris' A Modern Idyll, by Arthur Symons collaborating with Moore). Only Symons was listed As Author. No manuscript of the play seems to have survived.

1st Produced:
Royalty Theatre, London#    04 Mar 1892

Organisations:
the Independent Theatre

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Passing of the Essenes, The

Passing of the Essenes, The
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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, London    01 Oct 1930

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1st Published:
London: William Heinemann, 1930
Selected plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn, Colin Smythe Limited, 1995   978-0-86140-144-1

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Strike at Arlingford, The

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Originally A five-act version, reduced to three with the Assistance of Arthur Kennedy. Produced by the Independent theatre At the Opera Comique, in the Strand, London, on 21 February 1893, And three nights later At Manchester.

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therese Raquin

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(revision of Moore's translation of Zola's play by Teixeria de Mattos

1st Produced:
Royalty Theatre, London    09 Oct 1891

Organisations:
the Independent Theatre

1st Published:
unpublished   -

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A Manuscript of the play is preserved among the Lord Chamberlain's papers.

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Three Lovers, The

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(with John Oliver Hobbes, pseud. of Mrs Pearl Craigie), Also called the Peacock's Feathers, not performed, Unpublished. (Rewritten by Moore As Elizabeth Cooper).

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unpublished   -

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Worldliness

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No copy is known to exist, or to have existed, the sole reference to it being in Confessions of A Young Man And in I.A. Williams' 1921 bibliography of Moore's works.

1st Produced:
London    c 1874

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