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Life And Art Of Edwin Booth With Portraits
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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 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.
Author :Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) Publisher :Boston : The Trustees ISBN 13 : Total Pages :976 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston by : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of a Very Complete Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War 1861-5 by : Francis Perego Harper
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Very Complete Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War 1861-5 written by Francis Perego Harper and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ... The Artistic and Literary Collections of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell ... by : American Art Association
Download or read book ... The Artistic and Literary Collections of the Late Evert Jansen Wendell ... written by American Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Booth's Daughter by : Raymond Wemmlinger
Download or read book Booth's Daughter written by Raymond Wemmlinger and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The niece of Lincoln’s assassin comes to terms with her family’s genius and tragic history. In March 1880 at age eighteen, Edwina is experiencing many new things. For the first time she sees her actor father, Edwin Booth, in King Lear, a play he had considered “too harsh for a young lady.” For the first time she finds herself squarely facing the burden carried by her family name for more than a decade: the assassination of President Lincoln by her uncle John Wilkes Booth. And for the first time she is in love, with Downing Vaux, an artist whose father, like Edwina’s, is famous. Edwina leaves Downing behind when her father insists that she accompany him on a year-long theatrical tour abroad. Downing is loyal, however, and when she returns to New York, they become engaged. But when the assassination of President Garfield thrusts the Booth family back into the limelight, Edwina finds that she must travel abroad again with her father, and Downing’s devotion is tested. Forced to reexamine her life, Edwina faces a difficult choice between duty and the pursuit of happiness.
Book Synopsis The Friendship of Nature by : Mabel Osgood Wright
Download or read book The Friendship of Nature written by Mabel Osgood Wright and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brothers written by George Howe Colt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blends history and memoir in an account that in alternating chapters explores the author's quest to understand the impact of his brothers on his life and the complex relationships between iconic brothers, including the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, and the Marxes.
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 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 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. 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. 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. 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.
Download or read book The Bostonian written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by :
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary Biography by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Contemporary Biography written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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