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Alfred Sutro
1863–1933
Best known as a successful Edwardian playwright, he also helped introduce English readers to Maurice Maeterlinck through early translations. His career moved from business into the theater, where his polished stage works found audiences in London and beyond.
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Five Little Plays
by Alfred Sutro
Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts
by Alfred Sutro
About the author
Alfred Sutro was an English dramatist, writer, and translator born in London on August 7, 1863, and he died on September 11, 1933. He is remembered both for his own popular plays and for making some of the first English translations of works by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
Before fully turning to literature and the stage, Sutro worked in business. He was educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, and his background helped shape the international outlook that appears in his translation work as well as his drama.
During the early 20th century, his plays enjoyed real commercial success, especially in the West End. Though he is less widely read now than some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting figure from the period: a writer who bridged late Victorian literary culture and the popular theater of the Edwardian age.