... Orleans to Montreal never once canceling a performance. Their first tour of America was such a success they toured every year up to 1887. In 1888 The Lyceum began the production of Macbeth, this was also the year Jack the Ripper terrorized the Whitechapel area. For the next few years the Lyceum Theater continued to bring in money with Irving, Stoker, and Loveday ... the spring of 1895 Irving became the first actor to receive a knighthood from the queen. In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. In August...

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