Henry M. Milner

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period = 19th century
genre = Melodrama; Popular tragedy
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magnum_opus = "The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein"
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Henry M. Milner was a 19th century playwright and author of melodramas and popular tragedies. [cite web |url=http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Milner/milner.html |title=Henry M. Milner |accessdate=2008-07-08 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=upenn.edu] His most notable work, "The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein" opened in 3 July 1826 at the Royal Coberg Theatre, six months after Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "The Last Man" was published. [cite web |url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/smchron3.html |title=A Chronology of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 1825-1835 |accessdate=2008-07-08 |last=Lawson |first=Shanon |coauthors= |date=1998-02-11 |work= |publisher=umd.edu] Subsequent film adaptations follow Milner's theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein's monstrous creation as a pivotal scene. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4b6OA48mYrUC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=%22Henry+M.+Milner%22+-Rideout&source=web&ots=q2WD7mB2BQ&sig=MabeT1EcatjmpYlvkufV9TMzUDU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result |title=Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ |last=Leitch |first=Thomas M. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2007 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Md. |pages=207 |isbn=0801885655] It was Milner, not Shelley, who authored the famous line: [cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A28234901 |title=In The Beginning |accessdate=2008-07-08 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=2007-10-26 |work= |publisher=bbc.co.uk]

"It lives!"

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* [http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Milner/milnertp.html "Frankenstein: or The Man and the Monster." A Romantic Melo-Drama, in Two Acts. FOUNDED PRINCIPALLY ON MRS. SHELLEY'S SINGULAR WORK ENTITLED "FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS" And partly on the French piece, "Le Magicien et le Monstre."] - at University of Pennsylvania
* [http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/collections/default.php?ter_id=3 "Mazeppa"] - adaptation of Lord Byron's romantic story in verse, at PeoplePlay UK

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