Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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12mins10sec Silent B&W #FilmHistory #DualityofHumankind

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson,

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

(1912) "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

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The very first version of "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" R.L. Stevenson (1886) was a four act play Stage Production in 1887 The play debuted in Boston, MA in May 1887, and a revised version opened on Broadway in September of that year. An actor named Richard Mansfield played the dual characters, Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Edward Hyde