Author: Edwin BoothPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothThe Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Collections)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Edwin Booth
Author: Laurence HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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American Tragedian
Author: Daniel J. WatermeierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780826220486
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was devastated. A leading stage star, Edwin Booth thought his career had ended. But with the support of countless theatergoers, over the next thirty years Booth would overcome the shadow of John Wilkes's infamy and steadily advance a reputation as America's greatest-ever Shakespearean actor, the American tragedian par excellence. Daniel J. Watermeier has, through decades of tireless research paired with his own sharp insight, put together the most complete Edwin Booth biography to date. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and contemporary theatrical scholarship, American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth gives more attention than previous biographies to Booth's apprentice and journeyman years; his rise in antebellum America to stardom with a new, acclaimed style of acting; his work as an innovative theater builder and theatrical producer; his several foreign tours; and his nationwide tours in the late 1880s. It also addresses Booth's critical reception in dozens of cities in America and abroad and situates his professional activities within the events and trends of the time. As interesting as it is informative, Watermeier's book offers an in-depth look at the triumphal career and tumultuous life of one of the American stage's most celebrated figures.
Edwin Booth
Author: Lance TaitPublisher: Enfield Books
ISBN: 9781893598027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Edwin Booth was the most famous actor of his day. His brother, John Wilkes Booth, also an actor, shot President Lincoln. Edwin would go on to establish his own classic theater in New York. This play examines Edwin Booth's life, celebrates his ideals, and offers a unique look into a forgotten part of American history. Book jacket.
The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothLife and Art of Edwin Booth
Author: William WinterMy Thoughts Be Bloody
Author: Nora TitonePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416586164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.