Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States Kean and Booth and their contemporaries written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States Marcready and Forrest and their contemporaries written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States The Kembles and their contemporaries written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue 1886 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Collection of the Late Peter Gilsey written by Peter Gilsey and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Circulating Library written by Toronto Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement No 1 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City Oct 1 1891 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors Part IV Volume 3 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.
Download or read book Catalogue of Literature Drama and Shakespeariana in the Kansas City Public Library written by Kansas City Public Library (Kansas City, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement No 2 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City N J Jan 1 1893 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles written by Marlis Schweitzer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the possibilities and the problems girl performers presented as they adopted the manners and clothing of boys, entered spaces intended for adults, and assumed characters written for men. It asks why masculine roles like Young Norval, Richard III, Little Pickle, and Shylock came to seem “normal” and “natural” for young white girls to play, and it considers how playwrights, managers, critics, and audiences sought to contain or fix the at-times dangerous plasticity they exhibited both on and off the stage. Schweitzer analyzes the formation of a distinct repertoire for girls in the first half of the nineteenth century, which delighted in precocity and playfulness and offered up a model of girlhood that was similarly joyful and fluid. This evolving repertoire reflected shifting perspectives on girls’ place within Anglo-American society, including where and how they should behave, and which girls had the right to appear at all.
Download or read book Fanny Kemble written by Deirdre David and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was, in her own words, irresistible as a "woman who has sat at dinner alongside Byron . . . and who calls Tennyson, Alfred." Touring in America with her father in the early 1830s, Kemble impulsively wed the wealthy and charming Philadelphia bachelor Pierce Butler, beginning a tumultuous marriage that ended in a sensational divorce and custody battle fourteen years later. At the time of their marriage, Kemble had not yet visited the vast Georgia rice and cotton plantations to which Butler was heir. In the winter of 1838, they visited Butler's southern holdings, and a horrified Kemble wrote what would later be published on both sides of the Atlantic as Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. An important text for abolitionists, it revealed the inner workings of a plantation and the appalling conditions in which slaves lived. Returning to England after her divorce, she fashioned a new career as a solo performer of Shakespeare's plays and as the author of memoirs, several travel narratives and collections of poems, a short novel, and miscellaneous essays on the theater. For the rest of her life, she would divide her time between the two countries. In the various roles she performed in her life, on stage and off—abolitionist, author, estranged wife—Kemble remained highly theatrical, appropriating and subverting nineteenth-century prescriptions for women's lives, ever rewriting the roles to which she was assigned by society and inheritance. Hers was truly a performed life, and in the first Kemble biography in twenty-five years to examine that life in its entirety, Deirdre David presents it in all its richness and complexity.
