King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Edmund Kean 1779 1784 1788 1795 1810 1820 J.P. Kemble J.B. Booth 1820 1820 Edmund Kean 1823 ( with Edmund Kean Shakespeare's ending ) 1826 Edwin Forrest 1826 Edmund Kean 1832 1833 1834 ( Macready's first restored version ) 1836 1838 ...
... Edmund Kean 1779 1784 1788 1795 1810 1820 J.P. Kemble J.B. Booth 1820 1820 Edmund Kean 1823 ( with Edmund Kean Shakespeare's ending ) 1826 Edwin Forrest 1826 Edmund Kean 1832 1833 1834 ( Macready's first restored version ) 1836 1838 ...
Page 125
... Edmund Kean for being hesitant over it , as if relying on audience reaction to tell him how far to carry his ' mimic reverence ' ( Hazlitt , p . 335 ) but another critic praised his ' exquisite tone of pathos ' while maintaining the ...
... Edmund Kean for being hesitant over it , as if relying on audience reaction to tell him how far to carry his ' mimic reverence ' ( Hazlitt , p . 335 ) but another critic praised his ' exquisite tone of pathos ' while maintaining the ...
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... Edmund Kean and Phelps cut to 1. 161 , removing Goneril's response to Edmund's fall and Albany's confronting them with her letter . 151-5 Cut by Irving . 155-6 Cut by Charles Kean . 157-9 Cut by Macready . 158 Cut by Charles Kean . 159 ...
... Edmund Kean and Phelps cut to 1. 161 , removing Goneril's response to Edmund's fall and Albany's confronting them with her letter . 151-5 Cut by Irving . 155-6 Cut by Charles Kean . 157-9 Cut by Macready . 158 Cut by Charles Kean . 159 ...
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actor ALBANY audience Barker notes Burgundy Byrne Charles Kean Cordelia CORNWALL critics curse Cut by Irving daughters Donald Sinden Donald Wolfit dost drama duke Edmund Kean effect Enter Edgar Enter Lear entry Exeunt Exit eyes father followed Fool Fool's France Garrick GENTLEMAN Gielgud in 1940 Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Goodbody Granada TV Granada TV production hand hath Hazlitt heart Hughes Irving cut Irving's J.C. Trewin J.P. Kemble Kean and Irving Kean's Kent Kent's King Lear knights Komisarjevsky Laughton Lear and Cordelia Lear's London Drury Lane lord Macready's madam madness noble nuncle Oswald pathos Paul Scofield performance Peter Brook Phelps playing Lear promptbook Regan restored role Samuel Phelps scene Scofield servants Shakespeare Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Shakespeare's text Shakespearian sister speak speech spoke stage storm Stratford upon Avon sword Tate Tate's text Tate's version tears Theatre theatrical thee thou throne Trewin villain