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5%OFFStanley Wells - Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh - 9780198703297 - V9780198703297
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh

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Description for Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh Hardcover. Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage. Num Pages: 314 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198703297
SKU
V9780198703297
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-23

About Stanley Wells
Stanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He was for nearly twenty years the editor of the annual Shakespeare Survey, and writes for the TLS and ... Read more

Reviews for Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh
Aimed at a broad readership, the book offers short biographies of "great Shakespeare actors" from Shakespeare's time to our own ... the book will very likely prove a helpful and entertaining resource for many.
Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Great Shakespeare Actors is most impressive when quarrying the more remote past, and, although it is suitable ... Read more

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