About the show After being drugged at Geoffrey Ware’s home, Wilfred Denver wakes to find Ware murdered. He mistakenly believes himself responsible for a killing committed by a burglar.
Sources: Wikipedia page identity · Wikipedia source revision · Barrett H. Clark, The British and American Drama of To-day, 1921 edition: The Silver King study, pages 36–39 · AFICatalogTheSilverKing:originalplay-sourceattributiononly
Wikipedia source revision : Wikipedia contributors, The Silver King (play); revision 1364925275. History: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Silver%20King%20%28play%29&action=history ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Synopsis paraphrased during individual-page model review. Catalog year basis: 1882 exact: Clark’s original stage-study entry explicitly states first performed in 1882. AFI’s play-source attribution also identifies London, 16 November 1882. This is more specific than a work-year label alone.
Barrett H. Clark, The British and American Drama of To-day, 1921 edition: The Silver King study, pages 36–39 : Original stage analysis quotes Act I, Scene 3, and confirms first performance in 1882. Public-domain OCR is preserved locally with a checksum.
AFICatalogTheSilverKing:originalplay-sourceattributiononly : Identifies the source play by Jones and Herman, London, 16 November 1882; the film plot is not used.