Autograph letter signed from Edward Gilbert Highton, London, to Henry Irving [manuscript], 1890 September 27.

London, 1890 September 27.

1 item ; 21 x 13 cm (bifolium)

Responds to Irving's criticism of his work on the proper treatment of Shakespeare's work (possibly never published). Indicates that he had not meant to antagonize Irving, whose renderings of modern melodrama and comedy he admires, but insists that "if Macbeth is taken as a crucial instance, it is only because its Production at The Lyceum was put forward as the highest type of nineenth century scenic & histrionic Art."

A letter from Highton to Irving, dated September 21 1890, also on the topic of his proposed "Treatise upon the scope and intent of Shakespeare's Macbeth" now at the Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive, Stratford upon Avon (RL2/6/427).

On Highton's personal letterhead The Owls' Next, Soho Square, London, W.

Acquired from Richard Ford, 2012.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

Y.c.3333

Purchased with funds from The Ann Jennalie Cook Acquisitions Fund.

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