Great Shakespeare actors : Burbage to Branagh /

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Author / Creator:	Wells, Stanley, 1930- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Shakespearean actors and actresses. Shakespearean actors and actresses.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540323

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ISBN:	9780191008344 0191008346 9780198703297
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 8, 2015).
Summary:	Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, HenryIrving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and.

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