Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9781462212989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Hardcover reprint of the original 1899 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Shakespeare, William. The Shakespearean Plays Of Edwin Booth, Volume 1. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Shakespeare, William. The Shakespearean Plays Of Edwin Booth, Volume 1. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1899.
My 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.
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346516783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothThe Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: Edwin BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Collections)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Shakespeare's Play of Henry the Eighth as Presented by Edwin Booth
Author: William ShakespeareThe Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
Author: William WinterEdwin Booth and America's Concept of Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Lynwood Terry OggelEdwin Booth
Author: Arthur W. BloomPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601461
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1187
Book Description
The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic actor, including his childhood; his early acting tours of California, Australia and Hawaii; his rise to fame as a touring star; his two marriages; his relationship with his brother John Wilkes Booth; his disastrous management of Booth's Theatre in New York City; and his death in 1891. The book includes an extensive performance history detailing every known Edwin Booth performance during his more than 30 years on the stage, with reviews and other supplementary materials.