espanolbot2:irregularincidents:Whelp, it’s World Dracula Day, so he’s a Dracula fact for you.For som
espanolbot2:irregularincidents:Whelp, it’s World Dracula Day, so he’s a Dracula fact for you.For some 30 years, Bram Stoker worked for Henry Irving, a renowned Shakespearean actor and owner of the Lyceum Theatre in London, with Stoker working as his business manager, press agent, and secretary.Supposedly Irving was the physical inspiration for Stoker’s famous creation, although when approached by Bram to perform a read-through of the novel to preserve the theatrical rights, the actor dismissed it as “dreadful“.Reblog, also just realised that Henry Irving kind of looks like Christopher Plummer.Weird. -- source link