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Download or read book Edwin Booth written by Arthur W. Bloom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 1187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic actor, including his childhood; his early acting tours of California, Australia and Hawaii; his rise to fame as a touring star; his two marriages; his relationship with his brother John Wilkes Booth; his disastrous management of Booth's Theatre in New York City; and his death in 1891. The book includes an extensive performance history detailing every known Edwin Booth performance during his more than 30 years on the stage, with reviews and other supplementary materials.
Download or read book Edwin Booth written by Laurence Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edwin Booth's Performances by : Mary Isabella Stone
Download or read book Edwin Booth's Performances written by Mary Isabella Stone and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Tragedian by : Daniel J. Watermeier
Download or read book American Tragedian written by Daniel J. Watermeier and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was devastated. A leading stage star, Edwin Booth thought his career had ended. But with the support of countless theatergoers, over the next thirty years Booth would overcome the shadow of John Wilkes's infamy and steadily advance a reputation as America's greatest-ever Shakespearean actor, the American tragedian par excellence. Daniel J. Watermeier has, through decades of tireless research paired with his own sharp insight, put together the most complete Edwin Booth biography to date. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and contemporary theatrical scholarship, American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth gives more attention than previous biographies to Booth's apprentice and journeyman years; his rise in antebellum America to stardom with a new, acclaimed style of acting; his work as an innovative theater builder and theatrical producer; his several foreign tours; and his nationwide tours in the late 1880s. It also addresses Booth's critical reception in dozens of cities in America and abroad and situates his professional activities within the events and trends of the time. As interesting as it is informative, Watermeier's book offers an in-depth look at the triumphal career and tumultuous life of one of the American stage's most celebrated figures.
Book Synopsis Life and Art of Edwin Booth by : William Winter
Download or read book Life and Art of Edwin Booth written by William Winter and published by New York, London, Macmilan and Company. This book was released on 1893 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This biography rests upon intimate personal knowledge of the subject, and upon information furnished to me by Booth himself. He was aware that I intended to write his Life, and he expressed approval of that intention."from the author's preface
Book Synopsis My Thoughts Be Bloody by : Nora Titone
Download or read book My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of nineteen, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. These ambitious brothers, born to theatrical parents, enacted a tale of mutual jealousy and resentment worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. From childhood, the stage-struck brothers were rivals for the approval of their father, legendary British actor Junius Brutus Booth. After his death, Edwin and John Wilkes were locked in a fierce contest to claim his legacy of fame. This strange family history and powerful sibling rivalry were the crucibles of John Wilkes’s character, exacerbating his political passions and driving him into a life of conspiracy. To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling’s meteoric rise. Their divergent paths—Edwin’s an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John’s a downward spiral into failure and obscurity—kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
Book Synopsis The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth by : Edwin Booth
Download or read book The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hamlet of Edwin Booth by : Charles Harlen Shattuck
Download or read book The Hamlet of Edwin Booth written by Charles Harlen Shattuck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plays of Edwin Booth by : Edwin Booth
Download or read book Plays of Edwin Booth written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lust for Fame written by Gordon Samples and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Booth's ten tumultuous years on the stage, with a wealth of rare period illustrations reproduced with special techniques yielding results of better quality than the originals. The book evaluates his performances through newspaper reviews and the recorded opinions of his contemporaries; it also separates Booth the actor from Booth the assassin. Previously unpublished letters are included, some in facsimile. John Wilkes' famous brother Edwin was not necessarily the leading actor of his era: this book indicates why John Wilkes Booth might claim that distinction. One of the appendices is an exhaustive chronology of all his performances, and all fellow cast members.
Book Synopsis The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth by : Edwin Booth
Download or read book The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prince of Players Edwin Booth by : Eleanor Ruggles
Download or read book Prince of Players Edwin Booth written by Eleanor Ruggles and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Edwin Booth by : Charles Townsend Copeland
Download or read book Edwin Booth written by Charles Townsend Copeland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plays of Edwin Booth by : Edwin Booth
Download or read book Plays of Edwin Booth written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Plays of Edwin Booth by : Edwin Booth
Download or read book The Plays of Edwin Booth written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Good Brother, Bad Brother by : James Cross Giblin
Download or read book Good Brother, Bad Brother written by James Cross Giblin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth fired a single shot and changed the course of American history. His infamous deed cost him his life and brought notoriety and shame to his family-particularly his elder brother, the renowned actor Edwin Booth. From that day forward, Edwin would be known as "the brother of the man who killed President Lincoln." In many ways, the Booth brothers were two of a kind. They were among America's finest actors, having inherited from their father, Junius Brutus Booth, a commanding stage presence and a rich, expressive voice. They also inherited Junius's penchant for alcohol and impulsive behavior. In other respects, the two brothers were very different. Edwin's introspective nature made him the perfect actor to play Hamlet, while John, with his dashing good looks and passionate intensity, excelled in romantic roles. They also stood at opposite poles politically. Edwin voted for Abraham Lincoln; John was an ardent advocate of the Confederacy. Award-winning author James Cross Giblin draws on first-hand accounts of family members, friends, and colleagues to create a vivid image of John Wilkes, the loving son and brother who became an assassin. Equally clear is the picture of Edwin, who battled his own weaknesses and emerged a pivotal figure in the development of the American theater. Comprehensive and compelling, this dual portrait illuminates a dark and tragic moment in the nation's history and explores the complex legacy of two leading men-one revered, the other abhorred. Book jacket.
