T. W. Robertson
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Thomas William Robertson was an English dramatist and stage director known for his development of naturalism in British theatre.
Robertson, 1860s
Friends and associates of Robertson: clockwise from top left, F. C. Burnand, H. J. Byron, W. S. Gilbert and Tom Hood
John Hare in Robertson's Ours, 1866
Marie Wilton as Polly Eccles in Robertson's Caste
Effie Bancroft
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Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft was an English actress and theatre manager. She appeared onstage as Marie Wilton until after her marriage in December 1867 to Squire Bancroft, when she adopted his la
T. W. Robertson
…translating and adapting foreign plays and writing several of his own plays he achieved success in 1865 with his play Society, which the actor-manager Marie Wilton presented at a small London theatre, the Prince of Wales's. Over the next five years Robertson wrote five more plays for the Prince of Wales's. Their…
Marie Wilton (later Effie Bancroft)
Portrait of Bancroft by Thomas Barker, c. 1870s
As Nan, in Good for Nothing (1879)