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JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONES, See also:HENRY See also:ARTHUR (1851- ) , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at Grandborough, See also:Buckinghamshire, on the 28th of See also:September 1851 the son of See also:Silvanus Jones, a See also:farmer. He began to See also:earn his living See also:early, his spare See also:time being given to See also:literary pursuits. He was twenty-seven before his first piece, Only See also:Round the Corner, was produced at the See also:Exeter See also:Theatre, but within four years of his debut as a dramatist he scored a See also:great success by The See also:Silver See also:King (See also:November 1882), written with Henry Herman, a See also:melodrama produced by See also:Wilson See also:Barrett at the Princess's Theatre. Its See also:financial success enabled the author to write a See also:play " to please himself." See also:Saints and Sinners (1884), which ran for two See also:hundred nights, placed on the See also:stage a picture of See also:middle-class See also:life and See also:religion in a See also:country See also:town, and the introduction of the religious See also:element raised considerable outcry. The author de-fended himself in an See also:article published in the Nineteenth See also:Century (See also:January 1885), taking for his starting-point a See also:quotation from the See also:preface to See also:Moliere's Tartuffe. His next serious piece was The Middleman (1889), followed by See also:Judah (1890), both powerful plays, which established his reputation. Later plays were The Dancing Girl (1891), The Crusaders (1891), The See also:Bauble See also:Shop (1893), The Tempter (1893), The Masqueraders (1894), The See also:Case of Rebellious Susan (1894), The See also:Triumph of the See also:Philistines (1895), See also:Michael and his Lost See also:Angel (1896), The See also:Rogue's See also:Comedy (I896), T he Physician (1897), The Liars (1897), See also:Carnac See also:Sahib (1899), The Manoeuvres of Jane (1899), The Lackeys' See also:Carnival (1900), Mrs Dane's See also:Defence (1900), The Princess's See also:Nose (1902), See also:Chance the Idol (1902), Whitewashing Julia (1903), See also:Joseph Entangled (1904), The See also:Chevalier (1904), &c. A See also:uniform edition of his plays began to be issued in 1891; and his own views of dramatic See also:art have been expressed from time to time in lectures and essays, collected in 1895 as The Renascence of the English See also:Drama.

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