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Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Brereton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Life of Henry Irving written by A. Brereton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351156462
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Henry Irving written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.
Author : Laurence Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Henry Irving, the Actor and His World written by Laurence Irving and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429939044
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book A Strange Eventful History written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.
Author : Catherine Wynne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129420
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Bram Stoker and the Stage, Volume 1 written by Catherine Wynne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker's theatrical reviews from Dublin's Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, selections from Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906) and a fictional work on the theatre.
Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315477750
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 1 written by Katharine Cockin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.
Author : Richards Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472028
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Sir Henry Irving: Theatre, Culture and Society written by Richards Jeffrey Richards and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about Sir Henry Irving.
Author : J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230250890
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129129
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John W. Mahon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136017585
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Merchant of Venice written by John W. Mahon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543115
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book River of the Gods written by Candice Millard and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • GOODREADS "A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the geographic riddle of their era." —The New York Times Book Review For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe – and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burton’s opposite in temperament and beliefs. From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. When they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his claim, and Speke launched another expedition to Africa to prove it. The two became venomous enemies, with the public siding with the more charismatic Burton, to Speke’s great envy. The day before they were to publicly debate,Speke shot himself. Yet there was a third man on both expeditions, his name obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultan’s army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without Bombay and men like him, who led, carried, and protected the expedition, neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived. In River of the Gods Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
Author : Austin 1862-1922 Brereton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019760345
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Life of Henry Irving; Volume 1 written by Austin 1862-1922 Brereton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling biography details the life of English actor Henry Irving, who rose to fame in the late 19th century and became one of the greatest actors of his time. The book delves into Irving's early career, his rise to fame, his notable performances, and his personal life, including his relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. Brereton's insightful writing provides a fascinating look into the life of one of the most celebrated actors of the Victorian era. 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 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. 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.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129013
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129005
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 2 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040128912
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
