Great Shakespeare Actors

Burbage to Branagh

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvStanley Wells,The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Wells, Stanley (Honorary President, Honorary President

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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, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance.Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-07-20
Mått141 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor324
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198769729

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Stanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He was for nearly twenty years the editor of the annual Shakespeare Survey, and writes for the TLS and many other publications. He has edited The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies and is General Editor (with Gary Taylor) of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare and co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. His most recent books are Shakespeare For All Time, Looking for Sex in Shakespeare, and Shakespeare, Sex, and Love.

IntroductionPrelude: William Shakespeare1: Richard Burbage2: Will Kemp3: Robert Armin4: Thomas Betterton5: Charles Macklin6: David GarrickWho Was the First Great Shakespeare Actress?7: Sarah Siddons8: George Frederick Cooke9: John Philip Kemble10: Dora Jordan11: Edmund Kean12: William Charles Macready13: Helen FaucitWho Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor?14: Ira Aldridge15: Charlotte Cushman16: Edwin Booth17: Henry Irving18: Ellen Terry19: Tommaso SalviniTimes of Change20: Edith Evans21: Sybil Thorndike22: Charles Laughton23: Donald Wolfit24: Ralph Richardson25: John Gielgud26: Laurence Olivier27: Peggy Ashcroft28: Michael Redgrave29: Paul Scofield30: Donald Sinden31: Richard Pasco32: Ian Richardson33: Judi Dench34: Derek Jacobi35: Ian McKellen36: Janet Suzman37: Antony Sher38: Simon Russell Beale39: Kenneth Branagh

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