| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Richard Burbage -- 2. Will Kemp -- 3. Robert Armin -- 4. Thomas Betterton -- 5. Charles Macklin -- 6. David Garrick -- Who Was the First Great Shakespeare Actress? -- 7. Sarah Siddons -- 8. George Frederick Cooke -- 9. John Philip Kemble -- 10. Dora Jordan -- 11. Edmund Kean -- 12. William Charles Macready -- 13. Helen Faucit -- Who Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor? -- 14. Ira Aldridge -- 15. Charlotte Cushman -- 16. Edwin Booth -- 17. Henry Irving -- 18. Ellen Terry -- 19. Tommaso Salvini -- Times of Change -- 20. Edith Evans -- 21. Sybil Thorndike -- 22. Charles Laugh ton -- 23. Donald Wolfit -- 24. Ralph Richardson -- 25. John Gielgud -- 26. Laurence Olivier -- 27. Peggy Ashcroft -- 28. Michael Redgrave -- 29. Paul Scofield -- 30. Donald Sinden -- 31. Richard Pasco -- 32. Ian Richardson -- 33. Judi Dench -- 34. Derek Jacobi -- 35. Ian McKellen -- 36. Janet Suzman -- 37. Antony Sher -- 38. Simon Russell Beale -- 39. Kenneth Branagh |
| Summary |
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, HenryIrving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 8, 2015) |
| Subject |
Shakespearean actors and actresses.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Shakespearean actors and actresses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191008344 |
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0191008346 |
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