Author: Hatton, JosephPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Cigarette Papers, Notes for a Life of Sir Henry Irving
Author: Hatton, JosephCigarette Papers
Author: Joseph HattonPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Cigarette Papers for After-dinner Smoking. With Some Notes for a Life of Sir Henry Irving
Author: Joseph HattonCornish Notes & Queries
Author: Cornish TelegraphPublisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Sir Henry Irving
Author: Jeffrey RichardsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853457
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age. He transformed the theater in Britain and America from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected art form. His admirers ranged from Queen Victoria to working men and housewives. He was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary and in 1895 became the first actor to receive a knighthood. Published to mark the centenary of Irving’s death, this book gives an account not only of Irving himself and of his career, but also of his whole impact on the Victorian Theatre and on Victorian culture.
English Shakespeariana, Fire - Narration
Author: Birmingham Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Madison Hall Notes
Author: British Theatre
Author: John P. CavanaghPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (Classic Reprint)
Author: Bram StokerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365255765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving Were my book a life of Henry Irving instead of a grouping of such matters as came into my own purview, I should probably feel some embarrassment in the commencement of a preface. Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usually obscure; but faintly remembered at the best. Art is a completion; not merely a history of endeavour. It is only when completeness has been obtained that the beginnings of endeavour gain importance, and that the steps by which it has been won assume any shape of permanent interest. After all, the struggle for supremacy is so universal that the matters of hope and difficulty of one person are hardly of general interest. When the individual has won out from the huddle of strife, the means and steps of his succeeding become of interest, either historically or in the educational aspect - but not before. From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far. Fame, who rides in higher atmosphere, can alone make her purpose heard Well did the framers of picturesque idea understand their work when in her hand they put a symbolic trumpet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.