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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Thomas_William_Robertson.jpg/220px-Thomas_William_Robertson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Thomas_William_Robertson.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="232" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Engraving of Tom Robertson</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Society</b></i> was an 1865 comedy drama by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_William_Robertson" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas William Robertson">Thomas William Robertson</a> regarded as a milestone in <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> drama because of its realism in sets, costume, acting and dialogue. Unusually for that time, Robertson both wrote and directed the play, and his innovative writing and <a href="/wiki/Theatre_direction" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre direction">stage direction</a> inspired <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> and <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pemberton_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pemberton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society_(play)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The play originally ran at the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Empire_Theatre" title="Liverpool Empire Theatre">Prince of Wales's Theatre</a>, Liverpool, under the management of Mr A. Henderson, opening on 8 May 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-Savin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Savin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was recommended to <a href="/wiki/Effie_Bancroft" title="Effie Bancroft">Effie Wilton</a>, the manager of the <a href="/wiki/Scala_Theatre" title="Scala Theatre">Prince of Wales's Theatre</a> in London's West End, by <a href="/wiki/Henry_James_Byron" title="Henry James Byron">H. J. Byron</a>, where it ran from 11 November 1865 to 4 May 1866<sup id="cite_ref-Pemberton_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pemberton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Robertson found fame with his new comedy, which included a scene that fictionalized the <i><a href="/wiki/Fun_(magazine)" title="Fun (magazine)">Fun</a></i> gang, who frequented the Arundel Club, the <a href="/wiki/Savage_Club" title="Savage Club">Savage Club</a>, and especially Evans's café, where they had a table in competition with the <i><a href="/wiki/Punch_(magazine)" title="Punch (magazine)">Punch</a></i> 'Round table'.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play marked the London debut of <a href="/wiki/Squire_Bancroft" title="Squire Bancroft">Squire Bancroft</a>, who went on to marry <a href="/wiki/Effie_Bancroft" title="Effie Bancroft">Effie Wilton</a> in 1867 and become her co-manager.<sup id="cite_ref-Londré_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Londré-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Society</i> had been rejected by many theatrical managers before finally being produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre. Together, Robertson and the Bancrofts are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', so-named because real cups and saucers were used as <a href="/wiki/Theatrical_property" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatrical property">props</a>. The Bancrofts gave Robertson an unprecedented amount of directorial control over his plays, which was a key step to institutionalising the power that directors wield in the theatre today.<sup id="cite_ref-Bruegge_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bruegge-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Success">Success</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Society_(play)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Success"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The comedy was such a success that another row of stalls had to be added, and the <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII" title="Edward VII">Prince of Wales</a> came to see the play. In <i>Society</i>, Robertson made a distinct attempt to introduce naturalism into contemporary drama. In his play, Robertson looked at the world around him and tried to reproduce it realistically through drama. The characters act like people of their day. <i>Society</i> was so popular that it encouraged Robertson to go further along the same realistic path in a series of plays: <i>Ours</i> (1866), <i><a href="/wiki/Caste_(play)" title="Caste (play)">Caste</a></i> (1867), <i>Play</i> (1868), <i>School</i> (1869), and <i>M.P.</i> (1870).<sup id="cite_ref-Cambridge_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cambridge-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These plays, together with <i>Society</i>, inspired playwrights such as <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>. Robertson directed his own plays, which was a radical change from the usual system in Victorian theatre of the manager of the theatre company staging the work around its star player. Gilbert said of this innovation: "I frequently attended his rehearsals and learnt a great deal from his method of stage-management, which in those days was quite a novelty, although most pieces are now stage-managed on the principles he introduced. I look upon stage-management, as now understood, as having been absolutely invented by him."<sup id="cite_ref-Pemberton_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pemberton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was in <i>Society</i> that the originality and cleverness of the dramatist were fully recognised. Play-writer and company were exactly suited one to another; the plays and the acting together – the small size of the playhouse being also in their favour – were at once recognised as a new thing. Although some critics sneered at the "cup-and-saucer comedy", others voted it absurdly realistic, and said there was nothing in it but commonplace life represented without a trace of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan" title="Richard Brinsley Sheridan">Sheridanian</a> wit and sparkle. Nevertheless, playgoers flocked to the little theatre in <a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Court_Road" title="Tottenham Court Road">Tottenham Court Road</a>, and the London stage was at once inundated with imitations of the new style of acting and the new kind of play.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote> <p>Miss Marie Wilton, the darling of the Strand Theatre, and the life and soul of the merry and really witty <a href="/wiki/Victorian_burlesque" title="Victorian burlesque">burlesques</a> (what a contrast to the vapid <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_musical_comedy" title="Edwardian musical comedy">'musical comedies'</a> of to-day!) that then formed the staple fare at that popular little playhouse, was anxious to spread her wings and try her strength in comedy. With that object in view she had taken the old Prince of Wales Theatre, hard by Tottenham Court Road, a place of amusement that had fallen into such disrepute that it was sneeringly nicknamed "The Dust-bin" ... So different in treatment was it from the plays with which theatre-goers were then apparently well pleased that Miss Wilton's friends and admirers frankly warned her that introduction was "dangerous." </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>The supposed danger lay in the simplicity of the play. True to nature it might be, but audiences accustomed to theatrical types verging on the border-land of caricature would (so managers thought) be hardly likely to accept a mere photograph of human life. It was the old tale of actors' portraits "Penny plain and tuppence coloured." The coloured articles had the readiest sale in the shops, ergo they could not be made too florid in the theatres. Miss Wilton, however, having in common with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Askew_Sothern" title="Edward Askew Sothern">Sothern</a> estimated <i>Society</i> at its true worth, declared that danger was better than dullness, selected her supporters, and under the now delighted author's superintendence, commenced rehearsals. After some preliminary difficulties it was produced, first in Liverpool and then in London. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>Having been very favourably received in the Lancashire city, <i>Society</i> was produced in the metropolis on 11 November 1865, and on the following day Robertson awoke to find himself famous. The success of the piece was, indeed, instantaneous, and soon became the talk of the town. Not to have seen Marie Wilton as Maud Hetherington, Bancroft as Sidney Daryl, <a href="/wiki/John_Hare_(actor)" title="John Hare (actor)">John Hare</a> as Lord Ptarmigant, John Clarke as John Chodd, junior, Fred Dewar as Tom Stylus, and <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Larkin" title="Sophie Larkin">Sophie Larkin</a> as Lady Ptarmigant, was to argue yourself unknown and so at one and the same moment the fortunes of a luckless theatre and a hitherto misunderstood dramatist were made. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>How much of this success was due to Robertson may be told in Mr. Bancroft's own words: "As the part I first played in <i>Society</i>," he says, "was a very important one to intrust to so young an actor as I then was, bearing as it does much of the burden of the play, I should like to note how much of the success I was fortunate enough to achieve was due to the encouragement and support I received from the author, who spared no pains with me, as with the others, to have his somewhat novel type of characters understood and acted as he wished." </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>He might have added but perhaps he hardly realised it that the triumph of the whole play owed much to the tact and the liberality of the clever lady who allowed Robertson to have his own way with the stage-management and (as far as was then possible) with the mounting of his work."<sup id="cite_ref-Pemberton_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pemberton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Robertson's original <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscript</a> of <i>Society</i> was donated to the <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_Memorial_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare Memorial Library">Shakespeare Memorial Library</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pemberton_1-4" class="reference"><a 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class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edgar_Pemberton" title="Thomas Edgar Pemberton">Pemberton, T. Edgar</a> (1905). "The English Drama from its Beginning to the Present Day". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/societyandcastee00robeuoft/societyandcastee00robeuoft_djvu.txt"><i>Society and Caste</i></a>. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+English+Drama+from+its+Beginning+to+the+Present+Day&rft.btitle=Society+and+Caste&rft.place=Boston&rft.pub=D.C.+Heath+%26+Co.&rft.date=1905&rft.aulast=Pemberton&rft.aufirst=T.+Edgar&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fsocietyandcastee00robeuoft%2Fsocietyandcastee00robeuoft_djvu.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASociety+%28play%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Savin-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Savin_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSavin1950" class="citation book cs1">Savin, Maynard (1950). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/thomaswilliamrob011269mbp/thomaswilliamrob011269mbp_djvu.txt"><i>Thomas William Robertson: His Plays and Stagecraft</i></a>. Providence, RI: Brown University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Thomas+William+Robertson%3A+His+Plays+and+Stagecraft&rft.place=Providence%2C+RI&rft.pub=Brown+University+Press&rft.date=1950&rft.aulast=Savin&rft.aufirst=Maynard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fthomaswilliamrob011269mbp%2Fthomaswilliamrob011269mbp_djvu.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASociety+%28play%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury Theatre Collections : London Theatres<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). 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Robertson"</a>. <i>The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes</i>. Vol. 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 20–1. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-58734-073-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-58734-073-9"><bdi>1-58734-073-9</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110825002105/http://www.bartleby.com/223/0814.html">Archived</a> from the original on 25 August 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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