page_title: Richard Carvel
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Carvel / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of American actor John Drew Jr, in the role of Richard Carvel, a play by Edward Everett Rose based on the popular 1899 novel by Winston Churchill. See also https://books.google.com/books?id=YhoOAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA227#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false
context_page_description: Richard Carvel is a historical novel by the American novelist Winston Churchill. It was first published in 1899 and was exceptionally successful, selling around two million copies and making the author a rich man. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of an eighteenth-century gentleman, the Richard Carvel of the title, and runs to eight volumes. It is set partly in Maryland and partly in London, England, during the American revolutionary era.
context_section_description: Edward Everett Rose adapted the novel for the stage, and Richard Carvel, the play, appeared on Broadway between September 1900 and January 1901. There were 129 performances in all. Richard Carvel was played by John Drew and Dorothy Manners by Ida Conquest. The play was produced by Charles Frohman at the Empire Theatre.
  Waltzes from the play were published as sheet music under the title Richard Carvel Waltzes, with a picture of the character in eighteenth-century dress.
  A silent film based on the novel was mooted and started production around 1915, but its IMDb entry notes: "There is no reliable documentation that a film bearing this title was ever completed or released."
caption: John Drew as Richard Carvel on Broadway
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