Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Man in the Iron Mask" in English language version.
SERLE, Thomas James, (...) Engaged at Covent Garden Theatre, and opened in Hamlet, November, 1825, and repeated it with Jaffier, Othello, &c.; remained three seasons (...); translated and adapted Dominique, Victim of St. Vincent; and Man in the Iron Mask, playing the principal characters.
(Église) de Saint-Louis-de-la-Culture
(Église) de Saint-Louis-de-la-Culture
The taking of the Bastille, see BMSat 7550, &c, naturally revived interest in the Man in the Iron Mask (d. 1703) and it was reported that his body still masked, had been found chained in a dungeon. Cf. the opera, Island of St. Marguerite, by the Hon. John St. John, based on Voltaire's account of the Man in the Iron Mask, in which the Temple of Liberty rises from the ruins of the castle. Drury Lane, 13 Nov. 1789. Genest, vi. 586. Cf. also Blake's poem, "The French Revolution" (1791).
First performed at the Royal Coburg Theatre, 1832
(...) This time the concept takes us back to 17th century France and the reign of King Louis XIV. In 1669 a man was arrested and subsequently held for over three decades in several French jails, including The Bastille. His name was kept a mystery as his face was covered with an iron mask. Oliviero Lacagnina who provides keyboards wrote all the music and provided the main idea behind the concept. (...)
11 March 1899. The Man in the Iron Mask. Title Comment: "Suggested by an episode in The Vicomte de Bragelonne of Alexandre Dumas". Author: Max Goldberg.
(Église) de Saint-Louis-de-la-Culture
(Église) de Saint-Louis-de-la-Culture