Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1040251021

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Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.


Great Shakespeare Actors

Great Shakespeare Actors

Author: Stanley Wells

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0198703295

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Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage.


Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9781851968534

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Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.


Shakespeare and Garrick

Shakespeare and Garrick

Author: Vanessa Cunningham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0521889774

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This text examines the changes made by eighteenth-century actor-manager David Garrick to Shakespeare's plays.


Becoming Shakespeare

Becoming Shakespeare

Author: Jack Lynch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-06-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0802715664

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Beginning with the death of William Shakespeare in 1616, a study of the bard explores his evolution from provincial playwright to universally acclaimed, literary giant, beginning with his growing popularity during the late-seventeenth-century Restoration and ranging to the Stratford celebration of the tricentennial of Shakespeare's birth in 1864.


Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1040128882

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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.


Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1040129129

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During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.


Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 2

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 2

Author: Tetsuo Kishi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1040129005

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Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.


Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1040128637

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During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.