The Story of My Life
Author : Dame Ellen Terry
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Actors
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Author : Dame Ellen Terry
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Actors
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Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1317323084
In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.
Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429939044
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.
Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1997-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812216134
Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Author : Clement Scott
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Charles Hiatt
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Marie St. John
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Edgar Pemberton
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 1902
Category :
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Author : Russ McDonald
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820325064
"McDonald also discerns parallels and distinctions in the approaches of Siddons, Terry, and Dench to the vocation of acting - specifically to Lady Macbeth and other great Shakespearean roles. Look to the Lady also helps us to better understand the place and function of the theater in British national life and what constitutes "great acting" at various historical moments." "Throughout, McDonald blends learned commentary on the history and culture of the stage with entertaining details about the appearance, personality, genealogy, and private life of each actor. Including some rarely seen images and drawing on previously untapped reviews and anecdotes, this is a lively introduction to the burgeoning field of performance criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1315477750
Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.