Gail Marshall, Tetsuo Kishi, Jim Davis, Lisa Freeman, Peter Raby

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1 (eBook, PDF)

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040129128
• Artikelnr.: 70654623

Autorenporträt

Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Jim Davis (Edmund Kean), Lisa A. Freeman (Sarah Siddons), Peter Raby (Harriet Smithson).

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME 1: EDMUND KEAN Introduction, Early Critical Accounts of Kean, The Talents of Edmund Kean Delineated (1817) Kean's Biographers on Kean in Shakespeare
Barry Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), The Life of Edmund Kean (1835)
Actors on Kean
Michael Kelly, Reminiscences (1826)
William Charles Macready, Macready's Reminiscences, ed. Sir Frederick Pollock (1875)
Joe Cowell, Thirty Years Passed Among the Players in England and America (1845)
Frances Anne Kemble, Records of a Girlhood (1880) Dramatists on Kean
Thomas Dibdin, Reminiscences (1827) George Raymond and Alfred Bunn
Edward Stirling, Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor and Manager (1881) Diarists, Literary and Artistic Figures on Kean
Lord Byron, Thomas Moore and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Henry Crabb Robinson Th e London Theatre 1811-1866: Selections from the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson
Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke and Joseph Farington
Washington Irving and Charles Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections (1860)
Melesina Trench, Hesther Piozzi and Mary Berry Hester Lynch Th rale, Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi
Mary Berry, Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, 1783 to 1852
North American Perspectives
Richard Henry Dana, William Clapp Jnr and Joe Cowell
Kean's Acting
John Genest, John Taylor and William Robson
George Henry Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (1875)
Kean Close-Up
James Winston and William/Catherine Oxberry
Newspaper and Journal Reviews
William Hazlitt
Examiner, 7 January 1816
The Times, 21 October 1817
London Magazine ( January 1820)
London Magazine (February 1820)
Leigh Hunt
Examiner, 26 February 1815
Examiner, 30 April 1820
Dramatic Essays by Leigh Hunt, ed. William Archer and Robert W. Lowe (1894)
John Keats, in Champion, 21 December 1817
Thomas Noon Talfourd, in New Monthly Magazine (March 1831)
Miscellaneous Criticism
Morning Post, 27 January 1814
Examiner, 27 February 1814
Examiner, 18 September 1814
Morning Herald, 14 March 1814
Morning Herald, 9 May 1814
Theatrical Inquisitor (February 1814) to Theatrical Inquisitor (May 1820)
London Magazine ( January 1823)
Decline, Last Appearance and Obituaries