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A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families

Holroyd, Michael

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsHistorical Figures

Publisher Price: $42.99

ISBN10: 0312429495
ISBN13: 9780312429492
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Mar 2 2010
Pages: 656
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In A Strange Eventful History, one of our greatest living biographers turns his attention to a gruop of history's most influential performers, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater.

Ellen Terry was ther era's most powerful actress. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted that he wrote her letters almost daily, but could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was a merchant's clerk who by force of will and wit became one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Irving and Terry presided over a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre and revived English theater as a popular art form.

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