John Barrymore, Shakespearean ActorCambridge University Press, 1997 - 398 páginas John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Michael Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of the production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs. Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition. As well, it provides a biographical sketch of one of the most revered and tragic actors of the twentieth century. "This young artist, profiting by the lessons of tradition...casts it boldly aside and emerges into the rarefied atmosphere of a new art, greater because it is new, stronger because it is built upon an old foundation." Brooklyn Times, March 9, 1920 |
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... characters and the innovations of his artistic associates within the broader context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century Shakespearean production . Biographical studies of the actor and his family have appeared steadily over the years ...
... characters and the innovations of his artistic associates within the broader context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century Shakespearean production . Biographical studies of the actor and his family have appeared steadily over the years ...
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... character ; Barrymore's " intellectual " portrayal - colloquial , restrained , yet forceful and startlingly clear - electrified the au- dience and moved the critics to proclaim him as one of the greatest of the Hamlets seen in New York ...
... character ; Barrymore's " intellectual " portrayal - colloquial , restrained , yet forceful and startlingly clear - electrified the au- dience and moved the critics to proclaim him as one of the greatest of the Hamlets seen in New York ...
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... characters and situations . " Shake- spearean productions we do have , to be sure , " he wrote . " Scan the records of the last three seasons here and you find performances , good , bad , and in- different , of no less than fourteen of ...
... characters and situations . " Shake- spearean productions we do have , to be sure , " he wrote . " Scan the records of the last three seasons here and you find performances , good , bad , and in- different , of no less than fourteen of ...
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... character . His May 1919 revival at the Thirty - ninth Street Theatre , a commercial Broadway run , brought further critical plaudits . Posterity rendered a harsher verdict on Hampden's skills . Over. Figure 7. Walter Hampden as Hamlet ...
... character . His May 1919 revival at the Thirty - ninth Street Theatre , a commercial Broadway run , brought further critical plaudits . Posterity rendered a harsher verdict on Hampden's skills . Over. Figure 7. Walter Hampden as Hamlet ...
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... character passed on by his Victorian and Edwardian prede- cessors . As Hopkins and Jones knew , no such conservatism was evident in Europe , where Shakespeare , especially in Germany , had been revitalized by the use of innovative new ...
... character passed on by his Victorian and Edwardian prede- cessors . As Hopkins and Jones knew , no such conservatism was evident in Europe , where Shakespeare , especially in Germany , had been revitalized by the use of innovative new ...
Índice
The Education of an Actor 18821919 | 32 |
The Productions | 67 |
Richard III 1920 | 69 |
Hamlet 19221924 | 122 |
The London Hamlet 1925 | 242 |
Aftermath | 261 |
Shakespeare in Hollywood 19251942 | 263 |
Epilogue | 299 |
Appendixes | 307 |
The Casts | 309 |
The Texts | 323 |
Notes | 331 |
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