Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308330
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809315260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809306923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809306930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip Henry Highfill (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809305186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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