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Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean - Great Shakespeareans: Volume II (Hardcover)
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Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean - Great Shakespeareans: Volume II (Hardcover)
Series: Great Shakespeareans
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This title presents a comprehensive critical analysis of the most
important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. It
concentrates on key actors and directors from the
Eighteenth-Century. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic
account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the
interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of
Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume,
leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John
Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and
reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial
contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the
figure covered and of the figure on the understanding,
interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of
their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an
account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with
other figures or works within the same field.
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