Richard Butler (author)

Richard Butler (author)

Richard Butler was a British dramatist and editor of the "Referee" magazine in the late Victorian period. [ [http://cgi.ebay.ie/1895-issue-THE-SKETCH-Magazine-24-July_W0QQitemZ200217284523QQihZ010QQcategoryZ21537QQcmdZViewItem "The Sketch" magazine, January 24, 1894] ]

He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry, with Henry Chance Newton. Works attributed to Richard Henry include "Monte Cristo, Jr" (burlesque melodrama 1886); "Jubilation" (musical mixture 1887); "Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim", a parody of the Mary Shelly novel "Frankenstein", presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887; and "Opposition" (a debate in one sitting 1892).Fact|date=May 2008

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