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John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor

John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, Book 10

General Drama

ISBN10: 0521620287
ISBN13: 9780521620284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 28 1997
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.45
Language: English
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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