Actors And Actresses Of Great Britain And The United States From The Days Of David Garrick To The Present Time

Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332964508
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, from the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, From the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time: Edited by Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton George Frederick Cooke, according to his own statement made to his biographer, William Dunlap, was born in the city of westminster, April 17, 1756. In 1769 he made his first appearance as an actor in a deserted barn in berwick-upon-tweed, playing Young Meadows in the opera of Love in a Village, ' and sup ported by an amateur company of boys of his own age. On this occasion, he confesses in his diary to having indulged in vocal music the only time in his life, in' public or in private, that he ever permitted himself to sing a song. His professional debut was made with a company of strolling players at Brentford in when he played Damont in 'jane Shore.' His first appearance in London - and for one night only - was at the Haymarket Theatre in the spring of 1778, and in the character of Cartalz'o in Otway's tragedy of the Orphan.' 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.