Page values for "The Land of Shadows"
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
"Research_Articles" values
1 row is stored for this page| Field | Field type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Date | 1989-09-01 |
| Title | Page | The Land of Shadows |
| Author | List of Page, delimiter: , | David Stuart Davies |
| Topic | List of String, delimiter: , | Theatre |
| Summary | Text | The article surveys Arthur Conan Doyle's lifelong engagement with the theatre, from his youthful enthusiasm and early failures to his major stage successes with A Story of Waterloo, Sherlock Holmes, and The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. It concludes that although theatre fascinated him and occasionally rescued him financially, Conan Doyle's true creative strength lay in prose, with his dramatic work remaining largely derivative and ultimately secondary. |
