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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1: Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their Contemporaries book cover

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their Contemporaries

By Tetsuo Kishi, Anjna Chouhan, Katharine Cockin Copyright 2013
    456 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    LIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS IV VOLUME 1: HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE, Introduction I. Early Recognition ‘Herbert Beerbohm Tree’, Theatre (1881) Arthur Goddard, Players of the Period (1891), excerpt II. Establishing his Credentials at the Haymarket 1887–96 Non-Shakespearian Roles ‘Re-opening of the Haymarket’, Era (1887) ‘The Haymarket Theatre’, Saturday Review (1887) ‘Captain Swift ’, Era (1888) ‘A Man’s Shadow’, Pall Mall Gazette (1889) ‘A Man’s Shadow’, Era (1889) ‘The Dancing Girl’, Saturday Review (1891) Julia Neilson, ‘The Dancing Girl’, in Th is for Remembrance (1940) ‘Hypatia’, Era (1893) ‘The Player’s World’, Encore (1893) ‘Hypatia’, Jewish Chronicle (1893) ‘Drama – At His Majesty’s Theatre’, Academy (1907) ‘A Woman of No Importance’, Era (1893) ‘Trilby on the Stage at Manchester: First Performance in England’, Daily News (1895) ‘Trilby’, Era (1895) Theatrical Experiments ‘Enemy of the People’, Era (1893) X., ‘Mr Tree’s Monday Nights’, Fortnightly Review (1890) III. Shakespearian Performances at the Haymarket The Merry Wives of Windsor ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’, Saturday Review (1889) ‘Drama: The Week’, Athenaeum (1889) King John IV. Challenging Irving Hamlet (1892) Beerbohm Tree, ‘Hamlet from an Actor’s Prompt Book’, Fortnightly Review (1895) Clement Scott, Some Notable ‘Hamlets’ (1905), excerpt ‘Hamlet at the Haymarket’, Era (1892) ‘Haymarket Theatre’, Queen (1892) Twelfth Night (1901) ‘Art and Architecture on the Stage: Twelfth Night’, Architectural Review (1901) ‘Her Majesty’s Theatre’, The Times (1901) The Merry Wives of Windsor Ellen Terry, Ellen Terry’s Memoirs (1932) ‘The Merry Wives’, Daily Mail (1902) ‘His Majesty’s Theatre – Miss Ellen Terry’s Jubilee’, The Times (1906) ‘His Majesty’s Theatre – The Merry Wives of Windsor’, Morning Post (1908) The Merchant of Venice Raymond Blathwayt, ‘Mr Tree as Shylock: An Impression of the Great Production at His Majesty’s’, Black and White (1908) ‘Mr Tree’s Shylock’, Daily Telegraph (1908) V. Shakespeare Staging Debates, The Argument Beerbohm Tree, ‘The New Costume Society and the Stage’, Theatre (1883) Sidney Lee, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage and other Essays (1906), excerpt Beerbohm Tree, ‘The Staging of Shakespeare’, Fortnightly Review (1900) William Poel, ‘The Staging of Shakespeare’, Fortnightly Review (1900) W. Hughes Hallett, ‘The Staging of Shakespeare: A Reply to Mr Beerbohm Tree’, Fortnightly Review (1900) Percy Fitzgerald, Shakespearean Representations (1908), excerpt London Shakespeare League, ‘Report of a Public Discussion on the Best Method of Presenting Shakespeare’s Plays’, 2nd edn (1915) VI. Highlights of the Shakespeare Festivals 1905–13 VII. Obituaries and Career Evaluations Editorial Notes

    Biography

    Series Editor: Gail Marshall, Consulting Editor: Tetsuo Kishi, Volume Editors: Victor Emeljanow (Herbert Beerbohm Tree), Anjna Chouhan & Denis Salter (Henry Irving), Katharine Cockin (Ellen Terry).

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