| Description |
xii, 626 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 539-552. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Actors, acting, and the performing of Shakespeare -- In Shakespeare's day -- The restoration -- Theater in the new world -- The age of Barton Booth, James Quin, and Charles Macklin -- Theaters and audiences in the later eighteenth century -- Garrick -- Some other eighteenth-century actors -- John Philip Kemble -- Sarah Siddons -- Other Kembles and Mrs. Jordan -- Master Betty and other phenomena -- Kean -- Contemporaries of Kean -- William Macready, Edwin Forrest, and the Astor Place riot -- Edwin Thomas Booth -- Princesses of Denmark and other vagaries -- Samuel Phelps and Barry Sullivan -- Henry Irving and Ellen Terry -- Foreign actors play for English-speaking audiences -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Johnston Forbes-Robertson -- Jottings on some nineteenth-century actors -- Shakespeare and the silent cinema -- The twentieth century -- Gielgud and Olivier -- Some recent productions. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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Actors -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0679505075 |
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9780679505075 |
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