seems to be broadly based on Sir Christopher Blount, who was in fact an official in the household of the Earl of Essex. Adaptations In 1822, the young Victor Hugo agreed with the elder Alexandre Soumet to write a five-act drama based on Scott's novel. Soumet had outlined the plot and was to write the last two acts, while Hugo was to write the first three. When they confronted the written materials, they agreed that their principles were incompatible. Each completed his own drama. Soumet's earnest Emilia was produced at the Odéon in 1823 with Mademoiselle Mars, while Hugo's Amy Robsart, freely mingling tragedy with comedy, was staged in 1828. Gaetano Donizetti's 1829 opera Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth is loosely based on Scott's novel. In 1836, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse composed a singspiel, "Festen på Kenilworth", to a text by Hans Christian Andersen, based on Scott's novel. Years later, in 1859, the María´s author and poet, Jorge Isaacs made an adaptation to theater: Amy Robsart, however, at that time his work did not receive the importance it deserved; nowadays the writer's playwright facet is recognized. Amy Robsart, a four-act adaptation by Andrew Halliday, opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 24 September 1870. The title role was played by Adelaide Neilson and four minor parts were taken by members of the Vokes family. The piece closed on 17 December, after playing 105 performances, but was revived four times, in 1871, 1873, 1874 and 1877, becoming one of the most successful Drury Lane shows of the Victorian period. In 1957 the novel was adapted into a six-part BBC television series Kenilworth, now believed to be lost. Allusions to the novel Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration Queen Elizabeth’s Entrance into Kenilworth, to an engraving of a painting by Thomas Allom in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839, references Amy in this novel from the start (Lonely sits the lovely lady, Lonely in the tower). Landon was a devotee of Scott's novels. In Balzac's 1841 novel Ursule Mirouët the villainous Goupil warns the fledgling barrister Desire against marrying for a whim, threatening to crush the woman "like Varney crushes Amy Robsart in Kenilworth". In keeping with the city's many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a pub called The Kenilworth, which was established in 1904. Portland, Oregon, has a neighborhood called Creston-Kenilworth, the latter part of which