1st Edition

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their Contemporaries

    546 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 3: ELLEN TERRY, Introduction I. Beginnings Charles Dodgson, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll Volume One (1856–8), excerpts George Tawse, ‘Charles Kean’s Winter’s Tale’, Theatre (1888) ‘Drama’, Daily News (1858) ‘The Theatres’, Daily News (1887) Frederick Wedmore, ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’, Stage (1875) ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1875) J. S., ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre’, Fraser’s Magazine Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949), excerpt II. Lyceum Days 1878–1902 Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949), excerpt ‘Art Gossip: Henry Irving as Manager’, Aberdeen Journal (1879), excerpt H. Savile Clark, ‘To Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia’, Examiner (1879) H. Savile Clark, ‘Hamlet at the Lyceum’, Examiner (1879) ‘Theatrical Reform: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum’, Blackwood’s Magazine (1879) ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Lyceum’, Examiner (1879) ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum’, Examiner (1879) ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1879) Anna Lea Merritt, ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia’, Etcher (1879) W. Davenport Adams, ‘Ellen Terry as Beatrice’, Theatre (1880) ‘Mr Irving and Miss Terry in Glasgow’, Era (1883) ‘Miss Ellen Terry’s Benefit’, Era (1887) Edward Dutton Cook, ‘Ellen Terry’, Theatre (1880) [Henry James], ‘The London Theatres’, Scribner’s Monthly (1881) ‘Public Amusements’, Liverpool Mercury (1881) E. R. R., ‘Ellen Terry as Portia’, Theatre (1880) ‘Helen Faucit and Ellen Terry’, Era (1880) ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Portia’, Illustrated London News (1880) Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953), excerpt Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson (1931), excerpt A. B. W., ‘The Drama’, Speaker (1898) ‘King Lear at the Lyceum’, The Times (1892) Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949), excerpt [G. B. S.], ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Saturday Review (1895) G. B. S., ‘Mainly About Shakespeare’, Saturday Review (1897) Marie Corelli, ‘Viola’, Temple Bar (1884) William Archer, ‘Twelfth Night at the Lyceum’, Macmillan’s Magazine (1884) Lewis Carroll, ‘The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence’, Theatre (1888) William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (1906) William Archer, ‘Macbeth and Common Sense’, Murray’s Magazine (1889) A. G. L., ‘Irving’s Macbeth’, Poet-lore (1889) Percy Fitzgerald, ‘Macbeth’, Theatre (1889) Anon., [review of Macbeth], Morning Post (1888) Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931), excerpt Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949), excerpt George Bernard Shaw, ‘Blaming the Bard’, Saturday Review (1896) R. Warwick Bond, ‘Cymbeline at the Lyceum’, Fortnightly Review (1896) Clement Scott, The Drama of Yesterday and To-Day (1899), excerpt 190 Bram Stoker, ‘The Art of Ellen Terry’, Playgoer (1901–2) III. Jubilee and After Bernard Partridge, ‘Fifty Years A Queen (An Author’s Tribute)’, Punch (1906) Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953) ‘Miss Ellen Terry’s Jubilee Benefit’, Review of Reviews (1906) ‘The Winter’s Tale Revived at His Majesty’s Theatre’, Illustrated London News (1906) B. W. Findon, ‘The Play and Its Story’, Play Pictorial (1906) ‘Miss Ellen Terry: Recital Programme’ (1912) ‘Miss Ellen Terry in her Charming Recital’ [programme] Christopher St John, ‘Introduction’, in Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932) Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932) Christopher St John, The First Actress (1911) Caricature of Ellen Terry as Suffragette ‘Miss Ellen Terry at the Haymarket’, Academy (1911) ‘Shakespeare’s Heroines by Ellen Terry’, Review of Reviews (1910) Ellen Terry, ‘The Women of Shakespeare’Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) IV. General Anon., ‘The Last Rosalind’, Theatre (1885) Oscar Wilde, ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’, Nineteenth Century (1885) William Archer, ‘A Well-Graced Actress’, National Review (1886) Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949), excerpt Harry How, ‘Illustrated Interview No. XVII: Ellen Terry’, Strand (1892) Anon., ‘Miss Ellen Terry on Operatic Acting’, Magazine of Music (1893) Joseph KnighThet al., ‘Who is the Greatest Living Actress – And Why?’,Idler (1895) Clement Scott, ‘The New Dictator’, Theatre (1895) G. B. S., ‘The Silver Key’, Saturday Review (1897) Austin Brereton, ‘Ellen Terry, Player Queen’, English Illustrated Magazine (1897) T. Edgar Pemberton, Ellen Terry and Her Sisters (1902) Christopher St John, Ellen Terry (1907) ‘Henry Irving and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1908) H. M. Walbrook, ‘Great Acting in Shakespeare’, Pall Mall Magazine (1910) Anon., ‘Kate Douglas Wiggin and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1911) ‘Editorial’, Freewoman (1911) Alice Comyns Carr, ‘Ellen Terry: Recollections of a Long Friendship’, Fortnightly Review (1922) V. Retrospective Ivor Brown, ‘To the Unknown Goddess’, Saturday Review (1928) Stephen Gwynn, ‘Ebb and Flow’, Fortnightly Review (1928) Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931) Virginia Woolf, ‘Ellen Terry’, New Statesman (1941) Graham Robertson, Time Was: Te Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson (1931) Ernest Milton, ‘Heart and Mind’, Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig (1949) Margaret Webster, The Same Only Different: Five Generations of a Great Family (1969), excerpts Rebecca West, ‘New Light on Ellen Terry’ (1932) Christopher St John, ‘Ellen Terry’s Shrine’, Sackbut (1933) ‘The Ellen Terry Memorial’ 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).