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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1
Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries
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eBook - PDF
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1
Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries
About this book
Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
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Yes, you can access Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1 by Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Richard Foulkes,Julia Swindells,Robert Sawyer,David Francis Taylor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- ‘Notice of a Testimonial to Charles Kean’, The Annual Register … of the Year 1862 (1863)
- A. Bunn, The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain (1840)
- The Celebrated Eton Boy and Sing-Song Play-House Pigeon (1859)
- J. K. Chapman (ed.), The Court Theatre, and Royal Dramatic Record (1849)
- J. W. Cole, The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean (1859)
- A. Darbyshire, The Art of the Victorian Stage: Notes and Recollections (1907)
- The Kean Banquet
- Richard II
- George Henry Lewes
- H. Morley, The Journal of a London Playgoer from 1851–1866 (1866), excerpt
- J. E. Murdoch, The Stage, Or, Recollections of Actors and Acting (1880), excerpts
- G. C. D. Odell, Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving (1920), excerpts
- The Princess’s Theatre
- Punch Magazine
- Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper
- The Tempest
- Hamlet
- Letters
- Editorial Notes