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Author:
Woo, Celestine. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008011152
Title:
Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / Celestine Woo.
Publisher:
Peter Lang,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xiii, 209 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--London.--London.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--1625-1800.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--1800-1950.
Garrick, David,--1717-1779--Performances.
Kemble, John Philip,--1757-1823--Performances.
Siddons, Sarah,--1755-1831--Performances.
Kean, Edmund,--1787-1833--Performances.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-195) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Bardolatry and "romantic" actors -- David Garrick : commodifying Shakespeare -- John Philip Kemble : consecrating Shakespeare -- Sarah Siddons : gendering Shakespeare -- Edmund Kean : ironic icon, transgressive tabula rasa.
Series:
Studies in Shakespeare ; v. 16
ISBN:
1433101637
9781433101632
OCLC:
(OCoLC)192109708
LCCN:
2008006436
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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