Doug Kirshen

Doug Kirshen is an independent scholar focusing on late-Victorian theatre. He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from Brandeis University and was an Instructor and Teaching Fellow at Brandeis. Previously he was Director of Audience Development at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard, where he conceived and developed the theatre's groundbreaking first website. He also wrote the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's first $1,000,000 grant proposal, to underwrite the preservation of this unique Boston treasure.

Doug is the author of "The New Man in the Age of the New Woman" in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Spring 2011; "Embodiment of the King: Henry Irving's King Arthur" in Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager; and "François Rochaix and Jean-Claude Maret: Geneva Convention" in The Lively ART: Twenty Years of the American Repertory Theatre.

Images above-right, under "Author Updates": "A Serious Comedy for Trivial People" [The New Man], Judy, 20 February 1895; "A Valentyne (And a Remonstrance)," Punch, 16 February 1895; "Gertrude and Jessie," Punch, 23 January 1895; "A Woman of No Importance" [Oscar Wilde], Judy, 26 April 1893.

The last three images are from the Souvenir of King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, First Presented at the Lyceum Theatre, 12th January, 1895 by Henry Irving, illustrated by J. Bernard Partridge and Hawes Craven: The Magic Mere; The Grail Knights; Ellen Terry as Guinevere; and Henry Irving as King Arthur.