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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... production , with Tyrone Power as the King 191 33. The Queen's closet scene ; Hamlet and Gertrude ( Blanche Yurka ) 34. Ophelia's ( Fay Compton ) mad scene in the 1925 London 195 production 199 35. The Gravediggers ' scene in London ...
... production , with Tyrone Power as the King 191 33. The Queen's closet scene ; Hamlet and Gertrude ( Blanche Yurka ) 34. Ophelia's ( Fay Compton ) mad scene in the 1925 London 195 production 199 35. The Gravediggers ' scene in London ...
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... production team , the director Arthur Hopkins and the designer Robert Edmond Jones , helped to revitalize Shakespearean acting and production in America and Great Brit- ain and changed the direction of subsequent revivals . Barrymore's ...
... production team , the director Arthur Hopkins and the designer Robert Edmond Jones , helped to revitalize Shakespearean acting and production in America and Great Brit- ain and changed the direction of subsequent revivals . Barrymore's ...
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... productions , performance re- constructions based on promptbooks , reviews , memoirs , and other evidence , and an analysis of the critical response . Chapter 4 documents Barrymore's 1925 production of Hamlet at the Haymarket Theatre in ...
... productions , performance re- constructions based on promptbooks , reviews , memoirs , and other evidence , and an analysis of the critical response . Chapter 4 documents Barrymore's 1925 production of Hamlet at the Haymarket Theatre in ...
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... production was hailed by the leading critics of the day as the be- ginning of a new era for Shakespeare on the American stage . Two years later , Barrymore again joined forces with Hopkins and Jones to present Hamlet . The production ...
... production was hailed by the leading critics of the day as the be- ginning of a new era for Shakespeare on the American stage . Two years later , Barrymore again joined forces with Hopkins and Jones to present Hamlet . The production ...
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... production during the Victori- an era and its aftermath . Barrymore , Hopkins , and Jones played a major role in restoring the tradition of dynamic Shakespearean production to Broadway and the West End , but their most significant ...
... production during the Victori- an era and its aftermath . Barrymore , Hopkins , and Jones played a major role in restoring the tradition of dynamic Shakespearean production to Broadway and the West End , but their most significant ...
Contenido
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 |
| 385 | |
| 393 | |
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