The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by Thomas Russell Sullivan in collaboration with the actor Richard Mansfield. It is an adaptation of the 1886 novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on a respected London doctor and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. The play debuted in Boston in May 1887, and a revised version opened on Broadway in September of that year.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by Thomas Russell Sullivan in collaboration with the actor Richard Mansfield. It is an adaptation of the 1886 novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on a respected London doctor and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. The play debuted in Boston in May 1887, and a revised version opened on Broadway in September of that year. It was popular in New York and on tour, and Mansfield was invited to bring it to London in August 1888, just before the first Jack the Ripper murders. Despite significant press coverage, the London production was a financial failure. A 1931 adaptation directed by Rouben Mamoulian earned Fredric March an Academy Award for Best Actor. A 1941 adaptation, directed by Victor Fleming, was a remake of the 1931 film. Several film versions of the story which were derived from the play have also been made, including a 1912 adaptation by Lucius Henderson and a 1920 adaptation by John S. Robertson. The film version of the play was the first to be released in cinemas in the U.S. and the second to be shown in the UK. It has been adapted into several languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. The book is published by Simon & Schuster and is available in hardback and e-book. The first edition of the first edition was published in 1887. The second edition, published in 1888, was released in hardcover.
The third edition, issued in 1891, was published by William Morrow and Co. The fourth edition, released in 1892, is the second edition. The fifth and final edition, printed in 1894, is a hardcover version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, published by the same publisher as the play. The sixth and final issue of the original edition is published in 1895, and the last, in 1896, is published as a hardback version. The last edition, in 1897, is printed in the second volume of the book, with an additional scene in which the doctor is seen protecting his fiancée, Agnes, who saw Hyde before her father was murdered, and is distraught when he refuses to provide the police with a description of Hyde. The final version, in which Agnes and the friends think he is protecting her father, is released in 1998. In the final act, he transforms himself into Hyde and commits suicide before he can be arrested for the murder of Agnes’ father, Sir Danvers. The plays have been adapted for film, television, and radio, and have been made into a number of different versions, including one that won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1941 and another that won a BAFTA for Best Director. The original version of this play was written by Sullivan, who made several changes to the story. These changes included creating a fiancee for Jeklyn and a stronger moral contrast between the two characters.
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