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The Final Problem

The Final Problem Adapted from the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle By Donald Novorsky, BSI The Characters include: Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the great detective Dr. John H. Watson, his friend and biographer Mrs. Hudson, Mr. Holmes’ landlady Alec MacDonald, A Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Professor James Moriarty, The Napoleon of Crime Frau Peter Steiler, Proprietress of der Englisher Hof Young Petra, A worker at der Englisher Hof Mrs. Mary Watson, The Good Doctor’s Wife 1 Scene 1 221 B Baker Street Watson: M.C.1 {Narration over Baker Street theme} Looking back at my notes from the years 1887 through 1891, I see that I called upon Sherlock Holmes on Friday morning, the sixth of January, 1891, to see how his trip to France, requested by the French government, had gone. Holmes notified me of his return, and since my wife had just left for a short visit to her aunt, I was almost as free as a bachelor. S.E.1 I had just barely let go of the heavy iron knocker when Mrs. Hudson opened the door for me to enter. S.E.2 Mrs. H.: Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes will be so pleased to see you. He was extremely tired when he returned yesterday, but is in much better form today. By the way, you did recall that today is his birthday, did you not? I have got something special planned for dinner, which will do very nicely for two, if you care to stay. Watson: As a matter of fact, I did, Mrs. Hudson.
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson Rebecca Mclaughlin

Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Honors Program Theses and Projects Undergraduate Honors Program 5-6-2013 A Study in Sherlock: Revisiting the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson Rebecca McLaughlin Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, and the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation McLaughlin, Rebecca. (2013). A Study in Sherlock: Revisiting the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. In BSU Honors Program Theses and Projects. Item 9. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/9 Copyright © 2013 Rebecca McLaughlin This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. A Study in Sherlock: Revisiting the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson Rebecca L. McLaughlin Submitted for Partial Completion of the Requirements for Commonwealth Honors in English Bridgewater State University 6 May 2013 Dr. Kathleen Vejvoda, Thesis Director Dr. Ellen Scheible, Committee Member Dr. Elizabeth Veisz, Committee Member McLaughlin 1 You see, but you do not observe ––Sherlock Holmes Introduction Since the publication of A Study in Scarlet in 1887, the stories of Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John Watson have captured the hearts and minds of many. With each generation, a Holmesian adaptation is introduced with some variation of success. However, just as Holmes feels about Watson, the loyal fans of Holmes merely see but do not observe. They become enveloped in the stories and characters, both the originals and the adaptations, but nobody stops to question the characters’ success.
Constructing Coherence in the Holmesian Canon

The Final Problem: Constructing Coherence in the Holmesian Canon CAMILLA ULLELAND HOEL Abstract: The death and resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, a contrarian reading in which Holmes helps the murderer, and the century-long tradition of the Holmesian Great Game with its pseudo-scholarly readings in light of an ironic conviction that Holmes is real and Arthur Conan Doyle merely John Watson’s literary agent. This paper relies on these events in the afterlife of Sherlock Holmes in order to trace an outline of the author function as it applies to the particular case of Doyle as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The operations of the author function can be hard to identify in the encounter with the apparently natural unity of the individual work, but these disturbances at the edges of the function make its effects more readily apparent. This article takes as its starting point the apparently strong author figure of the Holmesian Great Game, in which “the canon” is delineated from “apocrypha” in pseudo-religious vocabulary. It argues that while readers willingly discard provisional readings in the face of an incompatible authorial text, the sanctioning authority of the author functions merely as a boundary for interpretation, not as a personal-biographical control over the interpretation itself. On the contrary, the consciously “writerly” reading of the text serves to reinforce the reliance on the text as it is encountered. The clear separation of canon from apocrypha, with the attendant reinforced author function, may have laid the ground not only for the acceptance of contrarian reading, but also for the creation of apocryphal writings like pastiche and fan fiction.
Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty: Victorian Genius in a Millennial World

University of Dayton eCommons Honors Theses University Honors Program Spring 4-2015 Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty: Victorian Genius in a Millennial World Allison K. Carey University of Dayton Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/uhp_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons eCommons Citation Carey, Allison K., "Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty: Victorian Genius in a Millennial World" (2015). Honors Theses. 46. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/uhp_theses/46 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the University Honors Program at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty: Victorian Genius in a Millennial World Honors Thesis Allison K. Carey Department: English Advisor: John P. McCombe, Ph.D. April 2015 Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty: Victorian Genius in a Millennial World Honors Thesis Allison K. Carey Department: English Advisor: John P. McCombe, Ph.D. April 2015 Abstract In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first novel regarding the detective Sherlock Holmes. He would go on to publish another three novels and 56 short stories detailing the great detective’s endeavors. Today, 128 years later, Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is as popular, as relevant, and as alive as ever. Adaptations continue to be made and achieve success, including the BBC’s mini-series, Sherlock. This modern adaptation and its interpretation of Conan Doyle’s characters, novels, stories, plots, and themes allow for a unique combination of Victorian and Modern England.
“The Final Problem”

An Inquiry into: “The Final Problem” Vol. XI No. 35 October 1, 2020 “The Final Problem” was first published in the Decem- ber 1893 issue of The Strand Magazine; it is part of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of Canon scholars consider the date of this case as settled. Watson clearly tells us that Holmes came to his house on April 24, 1891, and that the fatal encounter (for Professor Moriarty, that is) took place at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4 of that same year. It is therefore no surprise that, as the table shows, all our chronologists agree on the year—if not the exact date—in which this case took place. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was 37 years old, and Doc- tor John H. Watson was 39. Main Characters: Professor James Moriarty, former mathematics profes- sor turned criminal mas- termind—Holmes’ archen- emy and would-be nemesis. Mycroft Holmes, elder brother of the Great Detec- tive. Peter Steiler, landlord of the Englischer Hof hotel in Meiringen, Switzerland. Notable Quotes: “He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radi- ations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.” “He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head.
Book Review of the Final Problem Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle“ Comes Into Completion

BOOK REVIEW OF THE FINAL PROBLEM WRITTEN BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A FINAL PROJECT In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement For S-1 Degree in Literature English Department, Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University Submitted by: Adhe Wirawan A2B009024 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2014 i APPROVAL Approved by, Final Project Advisor Dr. J. Herudjati P, Msc. NIP. 195303271981031006 ii PRONOUNCEMENT The writer states truthfully that He is compiles this final project without taking the results from other research in any university or any degrees. In addition, the writer ascertains that he does not take the material from other publications or someone‘s work except for the references mentioned in references. Semarang, 1 September 2014 Adhe Wirawan iii MOTTO AND DEDICATION There are two ways to live a pleasant life, either in someone‘s heart or in someone‘s prayer (Ali Ibn Abi Thalib RA) If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you are fooling yourself. That is like expecting the lion not to eat you because you are not eat them (Kayla Macalma) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens (Jimi Hendrix) This thesis dedicated to my parents, my sister, my brother and my friends iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Praise to God Almighty, Who has given strength and true spirit, so this project —Book review of The Final Problem written Ey Sir Arthur Conan Doyle“ comes into completion. On this occasion, the writer would like to thank all those people who have contributed in the completion of this book review. The deepest gratitude and appreciation is extended to Dr.
Group No.: S17-ENG-K11 Mikkel Hill Larsen (48842) Pelle Imlau

Group No.: S17-ENG-K11 Supervisor: Ebbe Klitgård Mikkel Hill Larsen (48842) No. Of characters: 69093 (28,8 pages) Pelle Imlau-Jeppesen (49647) Language: English K3 English F2017 Roskilde University ABSTRACT This project investigates how the antagonist James Moriarty has been portrayed as a villain in Guy Ritchie’s motion picture Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) and the BBC TV Series Sherlock (2010-2017). Through a thematic analysis focusing on the subjects we have called “The Antagonist in Motion” and “Homoerocity and emotions in BBC’s Sherlock”, the project concludes the following: the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows creates a much more contrastive relationship between villain and hero, which can be seen as a way of incorporating the social class dynamics of Conan Doyle’s original text. However, in adapting this dynamic for a 21st century audience, the villain of Moriarty is first and foremost portrayed as a corrupt businessman rather than an elitist socialite or plain revengeful evildoer. In the BBC series the characters of Sherlock and Jim share an intimate relationship due to their many likenesses. Jim is a fluid character that navigates both gender, sexuality and personality. As a villain Jim is presented as a seductive psychopath that has no desire of money or power but has an ultimate goal of breaking Sherlock. Page 1 of 40 NOTE TO THE READER Throughout the project we will for convenience sake refer to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) as A Game of Shadows and the BBC series Sherlock (2010-2017) as Sherlock (in italic).
Why a Second Sherlock Holmes Story? NOTE: My Recent Research

Why a second Sherlock Holmes story? NOTE: My Sherlock Holmes stories were inspired by a wonderful photo of Frederick Leach (David Parr’s employer) and his assembled workers taken, in 1882, on a day out to Clayhithe. The men are arranged in rows, like a college photo. One man stands out from all the others because of his physique and his hat. The man is tall, has a Holmesian quality, and, most importantly, is the only one wearing a deerstalker. The wearer is none other than David Parr. Incredibly, both men were born in 1854. David Parr was born on 19th July 1854 and in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story ‘His Last Bow’, set in 1914, Sherlock Holmes is described as sixty years of age - his birthday is 6th January. An illustration of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget for The Strand Magazine My recent research threw up an interesting connection between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes and the Pre-Raphaelites – David Parr and Frederick Leach worked on several prestigious commissions for William Morris, who, together with his artistic friends from Oxford, were adopted as second generation Pre-Raphaelites. But, like all good tales, I shall start at the beginning… February 2020, I consulted Edward Burne-Jones’s (EB-J) notebook in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection as part of my research for the David Parr House. The notebook lists the work he produced by year. It is frustratingly brief and raises as many questions as it answers, for example, his patrons are listed only by surname. More than a hundred years after the last entry, they no longer carry the same meaning without reaching for reference books.
Sherlock Holmes Adapted from William Gillette's Play by Geoffrey Sherman

ASF Study Materials for Sherlock Holmes adapted from William Gillette's play by Geoffrey Sherman Director Geoffrey Sherman Study materials written by Set Design James Wolk Susan Willis, ASF Dramaturg Costume Design Pamela Scofield [email protected] Lighting Design Travis McCale Contact ASF at: www.asf.net 1.800.841-4273 1 Sherlock Holmes adapted from William Gillette by Geoffrey Sherman Welcome to Sherlock Holmes We know Sherlock Holmes. He looks like Benedick Cumberbatch. Well, we know the latest in a long line of Sherlock Holmes incarnations, including here on the ASF stage an adaptation of the 1899 stage version penned and performed for 33 years Characters by William Gillette. But the original Sherlock at Edelweiss Lodge: Holmes—and he was an original—flowed Madge Larrabee criminals, the from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle James Larrabee } "Chetwoods" and famously into the monthly magazine Alice Faulkner, their captive The Strand in London between 1891 and John Forman, alias Judson, the 1893, captivating England, America, and butler, working with Holmes the world with his observational acumen Térèse, a maid and deductive reasoning. He once told his Sidney Prince, a safecracker friend, sidekick, and recorder of his cases, Sherlock Holmes, the detective Dr. Watson: "I am a brain, Watson, … The rest of me is a mere appendix." Not entirely Watson and Holmes in a Sidney Paget in Moriarty's office or the gas true, but at times not much of an exaggeration illustration for the original Strand series of stories chamber: either as we watch Holmes solve case after case Professor Moriarty, a villainous with thrilling perception and logic.
WATSON: the Final Problem TOUR INFORMATION

WATSON: The Final Problem TOUR INFORMATION WATSON by Bert Coules and Tim Marriott Trailer: https://youtu.be/RE-e4yywsqI Full length audio version: https://youtu.be/QGEdTGG7caQ Watson is alone. His beloved wife Mary and the great Sherlock Holmes are both gone. But London seethes with false reports and rumour. It is time to set the record straight. So Watson tells his tale... a tale of long buried secrets, betrayal and death. For there is a shadow in the gutters of London. A spider's web of poisonous intrigue lies across the city. Someone is playing a long game and Holmes and Watson face their greatest ever challenge. But as Watson unravels the story, is the game really over? Based on the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'Watson' is written with Bert Coules (BBC's The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Cadfael; Rebus) and performed by Tim Marriott (The Brittas Empire; Allo, Allo). "Superb, authentic, excellent production" Broadway World Suitable for GCSE English Literature and Language students, 'Watson' is inspired by two Sherlock Holmes adventures Sign of the Four and The Final Problem. (GCSE: Victorian Literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, AQA text: Sign of the Four) THE COMPANY Smokescreen Productions CIC is a not-for-profit company founded by Tim Marriott, returning to the stage after a 17 year career break in education. The company was set up to produce issue based theatre. A 'Sell-Out' season at Edinburgh Festival in 2017 resulted in an invitation to Adelaide Fringe, where MENGELE was once again a Sell-Out show, including four extra performances, and SHELL SHOCK was awarded Best Solo Show (Sunday Mail).
Professor Moriarty and the Adventure of the Irish(?) Criminal: Tracing the Evolution of Sherlock Holmes’S Arch-Nemesis, 1893–2017

Professor Moriarty and the Adventure of the Irish(?) Criminal: Tracing the Evolution of Sherlock Holmes’s Arch-Nemesis, 1893–2017 by Kayla M Cook Cook 1 Introduction The first installment of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet was first published in November of 1887 in Beaton’s Christmas Annual. This was the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson, who would soon become two of the most famous characters in detective fiction, as well as two of the most famous fictional characters of all time. Over the next four decades came three more novels and fifty-six short stories. In each of these, a crime is committed in some quaint little English village, offsetting society from the norm; the Metropolitan Police, also called Scotland Yard due to their geographic location within London, is called in, and if it is too much for them to handle—which often is the case, at an almost unsettling rate, in these stories—they call in Sherlock Holmes, an amateur detective with a genius mind and a keen eye for observation who, thanks to his ability to notice things that others do not, solves the cases quickly, thus resetting the town to its social norm. At the end of the Victorian Era, London was a center for crime, so stories like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes narratives, in which the detective is always able to solve the crime and the culprit is always caught and locked away, were comforting to many London readers. Sherlock Holmes gained popularity fast, and with each new story, was further established as the representative and protector of respectable, law-abiding Anglo-centric Victorian British society.
Adventure 11 the Final Problem Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ADVENTURE 11 THE FINAL PROBLEM Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever re- cord the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the “Study in Scarlet,” up to the time of his interference in the matter of the “Naval Treaty”—an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill. My hand has been forced, however, by the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts before the public exactly as they occurred. I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am satisfied that the time has come when no good purpose is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know, there have been only three accounts in the public press: that in the Journal de Geneve on May 6th, 1891, the Reuter’s despatch in the English papers on May 7th, and finally the recent letter to which I have alluded.