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WILLS, WILLIAM GORMAN (1828-1891)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 690 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WILLS, WILLIAM GORMAN (1828-1891) , Irish dramatist, was born at Kilmurry, Ireland, on the 28th of January 1828, the son of James Wills (179o-1868), author of Lives of Ilh'strious and Distinguished Irishmen (1839-1847). The son was educated at
Waterford
  Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. After several years of journalistic and literary
work
  in Dublin, he settled in London, where he wrote stories for the magazines. In 1868 he determined that he could make a better living at portrait-painting, for which, though his art education had been meagre, he had always had talent. He soon made a
fair
  income, though in the long run his excessive Bohemianism, coupled with persistent absent-mindedness, lost him many sitters. Meanwhile he had begun to write for the stage. His first
original
 
work
  was the Man o'Airlie, produced at the Princess's theatre, London, in 1867. Early in 1872 he was engaged by Colonel Bateman as " dramatist to the Lyceum " at an annual salary. Under the terms of his agreement he wrote
Medea
  in Corinth, Charles I. and
Eugene
  Aram, all of which were produced at the Lyceum in 1872-1873. With Charles I., in which Mr (afterwards Sir
Henry
 ) Irving confirmed the reputation he had earned by his performance in The Bells, Wills made a popular success, which he repeated in Olivia (adapted from Goldsmith's Vicar of
Wake
 -field) in 1873. From this date onwards Wills wrote continuously, and till 1887 his name was practically never absent from the bill of some London theatre. His work never, however, quite came up to the expectations which were based on his genuine ability,
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and much of it is of an inferior quality. In Claudian (Princess's Theatre, 1883) and Faust (Lyceum Theatre, 1885) he merely supplied the text to a variety of dramatic situations. In 1887 his mother, whom he had supported for many years, died, and after her death he seemed to have less incentive for work. Wills was a painter by choice, and never put his whole heart into his dramatic work. He had some skill in ballad-writing, shown in the well-known " I'll sing thee songs of Araby." He died on the 13th of December 1891.


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