Henry M. Milner
Little is known of Milner beyond what is suggested by his publications.
He was apparently a very successful playwright; his works included a great
many melodramas and popular tragedies, including Barmecide; or, The
Fatal Offspring (1818),
The Philosopher: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1819), Twelve Precisely! or, A
Night at Dover: An Interlude in One Act (1821), The Hertfordshire
Tragedy; or, The Victims of Gaming: A Serious Drama in Two Acts (Founded
upon Recent Melancholy Facts) (1824), The Death-Fetch; or,
The Fatal Warning: A Romantic Melo Drama in Two Acts (Founded on a
Well-Known Superstition) (1826), The Hut of the Red
Mountain; or, Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life: A Drama, in Three Acts
(1827, also known as The
Gambler's Fate), Lucius Catiline, the Roman Traitor: A Drama, in
Three Acts (1827),
Masaniello, or, The Dumb Girl of Portici: A Musical Drama, in Three
Acts (1829), Mazeppa: A
Romantic Drama in Three Acts: Dramatised from Lord Byron's Poem (1831), and Gustavus the Third;
or, The Masked Ball! A Romantic Drama, in Three Acts (1833).
His interest for this edition is his adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel,
Frankenstein; or, The Man and the
Monster, first published in 1826. Frankenstein was
the second dramatic adaptation of the
novel in English, following Peake's Presumption and the French Le
Monstre et le magicien (1826) by Jean-Toussaint Merle
and Béraud Antony.
- Works:
- Frankenstein in Popular Culture:
