Yet Hunt's "Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus" (after Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona") attains a high degree of Romantic beauty while offering a record of the painstaking historic realism that characterized Victorian Shakespeare productions by Charles Kean and Henry Irving.

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CNN's Cheri Mossburg, Erica Henry and Irving Last contributed to this report.

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The lives of Irving's children, Henry and Laurence, are a tragic strand in the story.

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The sixty-three essays are based on the work of Vogue photographers including Helmut Newton, Henry Clarke, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Horst P.

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