Henry M. Milner was a 19th-century British playwright and author of melodramas and popular tragedies. Milner wrote numerous plays, including two popular equestrian dramas/hippodramas featuring live horses on stage. These are: Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary (which was based on Lord Byron's 1819 poem), which kicked off a wave of interest in the legend and Dick Turpin's Ride to York; or, Bonny black Bess, about the famous highwayman and his horse. Both of these plays included great spectacle in performance and enjoyed great popular success during the mid to late nineteenth century. Mazeppa was extremely popular and often produced; it is recalled as one of, if not the most, significant and popular equestrian drama of all time. (From Wikipedia)
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Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Frankenstein; or The Man and the Monster! A Peculiar Romantic, Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectable in Two Acts (1826; based in part on Shelley's book and a French piece) (illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures)
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Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Death fetch (J. Lowndes, in the 1820s) (page images at HathiTrust)- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Dumb girl of Portici (Samuel French, 1855), also by D. F. E. Auber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Hut of the Red mountain (Davidson, in the 1830s), also by Victor Ducange and Dinaux (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): The hut of the red mountain; or, Thirty years of a gambler's life : a drama, in three acts (T.H. Lacy, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Mazeppa (Turner & son [etc., 1830), also by George Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Thirty years of a gamester's life (S. French, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Turpin's ride to York : or, Bonny black Bess : an equestrian drama, in two acts ... (J. Dicks, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Milner, H. M. (Henry M.): Twelve precisely! or, A night at Dover: an interlude, in one act. As performed at the Olympic Theatre, Strand, Monday, Jan 1, 1821. (Printed for J. Lowndes, 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
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