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30 mai 2024 · Once upon a time, in the early 1800s, there was a great Shakespearean actor called Edmund Kean. He was the Hamlet of the Romantics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote that watching him was “like ...
30 mai 2024 · VOLUME 1: EDMUND KEAN Introduction, Early Critical Accounts of Kean, The Talents of Edmund Kean Delineated (1817) Kean’s Biographers on Kean in Shakespeare; Barry Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), The Life of Edmund Kean (1835); Actors on Kean; Michael Kelly, Reminiscences (1826); William Charles Macready, Macready’s Reminiscences ...
Il y a 4 jours · Edmund Kean (17 March 1787 – 15 May 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever. Early life. Kean was born in westminister London. His father was probably Edmund Kean (see Ó Catháin), an architect’s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright ...
20 juin 2024 · Here, in the present century, Edmund Kean ran his brilliant but erratic career, and his more estimable, although less highly gifted, son Charles made his début as "Young Norval." Here, in 1828, Joe Grimaldi, prince of clowns and of good fellows, took his farewell of the stage, where, the following year, Mrs. Nisbet (subsequently ...
3 juin 2024 · Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century
17 juin 2024 · Edmund Kean played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances. At last in 1838, William Macready at Covent Garden performed Shakespeare's version, freed from Tate's adaptions.
17 juin 2024 · Edmund Kean, Junius Brutus Booth, Sheridan Knowles Macready, Samuel Phelps, and Joseph Grimaldi, the clown, were among the early performers and in 1834 Paganini gave his farewell performance in England there. The theatre was designed by Rudolph Cabanel.
