Background
Alfred Sutro was born on August 7, 1863, in London, England. He was the son of Sigismund Sutro, a doctor.
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Sutro was educated at the City of London School.
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Alfred Sutro was born on August 7, 1863, in London, England. He was the son of Sigismund Sutro, a doctor.
Sutro was educated at the City of London School and in Brussels.
Sutro began his career as a clerk in the City of London. When he was twenty he entered into partnership with his elder brother Leopold, trading as wholesale merchants.
In 1894 Sutro moved to Paris and struggled to become a professional writer. He returned to England after a few years and developed a couple of unsuccessful plays. His first and biggest success was The Walls of Jericho, produced in 1904. It focuses on an honest Australian in conflict with the debauchery of English high society.
The other category of plays which Sutro wrote - the artificial comedy - is perhaps best represented by Mollentrave on Women (1905), The Perplexed Husband (1911), and The Two Virtues (1914). These differ structurally from the realistic plays in being loose and episodic. The plots may ramble over a period of days or weeks while error piles upon error, to the confusion of all parties on the stage and occasionally the audience. The stories are contrived and strained at times and not witty so much as jocular.
(a duologue, a comedy in one act)
1904(a comedy in three acts)
1922(a comedy in four acts)
1907(a comedy in four acts)
1913(a comedy in four acts)
1912(a play in four acts)
1900(a play in four acts)
1906(a play in four acts)
1908(a play in one act)
1900(a duologue)
1908(a play)
1902Sutro was a talented translator, mainly of the works of his lifelong friend, the Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck. Sutro was a friend of many noted writers of his day, including George Bernard Shaw and D.H. Lawrence.
In 1894, Alfred Sutro married Esther Stella Isaacs, an artist.