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Representing Shakespearean Tragedy - Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,151
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Representing Shakespearean Tragedy - Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Paperback): Reiko Oya

Representing Shakespearean Tragedy - Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Paperback)

Reiko Oya

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Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the time - David Garrick, John Philip Kemble and his sister Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean - and their close circle of friends. The book begins by analysing the tragic emotion that Garrick conveyed through his performance of King Lear, and the responses to it from such critics as Samuel Johnson and Elizabeth Montagu. The second chapter examines the concept of sublimity in Kemble and Siddons' interpretations of Macbeth. The final chapter studies the disparity between the literary and the theatrical Hamlet in Kean's impersonation and William Hazlitt's response to it. With subjects ranging from Shakespearean promptbooks to paintings and the poetics of Romanticism, the book offers great insights into the exchange of ideas and inspirations among the cultural luminaries who surrounded the London stage.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2011
First published: November 2010
Authors: Reiko Oya
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-18140-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN: 0-521-18140-2
Barcode: 9780521181402

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