Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
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Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1108057446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging 1906 two-volume tribute to the most famous actor-manager of the nineteenth century by his closest friend and business manager.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-28
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781330452011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 488
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Author: Richard Foulkes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1351156462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.
Gladstone
Author: Peter John Jagger
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781852851736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays by leading historians, published on the centenary of his death, the reader is invited to consider the extraordinary career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen. The book illuminates Gladstone's complex personality.
Henry Irving's Waterloo
Author: W. D. King
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0520333322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Sir Henry Irving
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-01-20
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781852855918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected and uplifting art form. This work gives an account of Irving and his impact on the Victorian theatre and life.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: William Peterfield Trent
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 682
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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0520248333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA farcical comedy about the "value" of art by America's master satirist, the piece was ignored in its time, but it is stage worthy today. Introduction and notes by a well-known Twain scholar.
