The Whip is a melodrama by Henry Hamilton and Cecil Raleigh, first performed in 1909 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The play's original production had intricate scenery and spectacular stage effects, including a horse race and a train crash. There were later productions in the United States and Australia, and the play inspired two silent films.
Reception Tallulah Bankhead offers a reminiscence of attending The Whip at the Manhattan Opera House as a child:
The heroine, "Lady Di" Sartoris, created by Jessie Bateman, was referenced in P. G. Wodehouse's Heavy Weather (1933).
Adaptations A novelization by Richard Parker was published in 1913. The play was adapted into films of the same name in 1917 and again in 1928.
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Photographs of the stage settings for The Whip