Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries [Hardcover]

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing ShakespeareLIVES OF SHAKESPEARIAN ACTORS III VOLUME 1: CHARLES KEAN Introduction Notice of a Testimonial to Charles Kean, The Annual Register & of the Year 1862 (1863) A. Bunn, The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain (1840) The Celebrated Eton Boy and Sing-Song Play-House Pigeon (1859) J. K. Chapman (ed.), The Court Theatre, and Royal Dramatic Record (1849) J. W. Cole, The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean (1859) A. Darbyshire, The Art of the Victorian Stage: Notes and Recollections (1907) The Kean Banquet Banquet Testimonial to Charles Kean (1859) Review of Kean Banquet, Musical World (1859) Richard II The Scenery in Richard II at the Princesss Theatre, Builder (1857) C. Kean, Preface and Historical Notes to King Richard II, (1860), excerpts C. Kean, Playbill for King Richard the Second C. Scott, How Charles Kean Played Richard the Second, Sketch (1899) George Henry Lewes G. H. Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (1875), excerpt Vivian [G. H. Lewes], Review of Macbeth, Leader (1853) H. Morley, The Journal of a London Playgoer fr om 18511866 (1866), excerpt J. E. Murdoch, The Stage, Or, Recollections of Actors and Acting (1880), excerpts G. C. D. Odell, Shakespeare fr om Betterton to Irving (1920), excerpts The Princesss Theatre Princesss Theatre, The Times of London (1857) The Princesss Theatre, New York Times (1858) Punch Magazine The Princesss Spectacle, Punch Magazine [London] (1857) Touching Things Theatrical, Punch Magazine, [Melbourne] (1854) Lloyds Weekly Newspaper Review of Keans Henry VIII, Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper (1855) Review of Kló'