King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 31
... critics who admired J.P. Kemble's dignified and tremulous old age.64 Cooke and Edmund Kean took their Lears to America , where the play had previously hardly been seen , and it was to an American that Kean's mantle as Lear passed ...
... critics who admired J.P. Kemble's dignified and tremulous old age.64 Cooke and Edmund Kean took their Lears to America , where the play had previously hardly been seen , and it was to an American that Kean's mantle as Lear passed ...
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... critics who objected to his private conduct , but found that the freedoms previously allowed to the actor were no longer permitted , and his popularity slumped disastrously . The old ways of conducting the theatre would no longer serve ...
... critics who objected to his private conduct , but found that the freedoms previously allowed to the actor were no longer permitted , and his popularity slumped disastrously . The old ways of conducting the theatre would no longer serve ...
Page 69
... critics found him ' too elaborately aged , and [ he ] quenched with infirmity the insane fire of the injured father ' ( Boaden vol . I , p . 378 ) . He tottered and quavered , and frequently fainted or fell . Macready also marked the ...
... critics found him ' too elaborately aged , and [ he ] quenched with infirmity the insane fire of the injured father ' ( Boaden vol . I , p . 378 ) . He tottered and quavered , and frequently fainted or fell . Macready also marked the ...
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