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Author: Haldane Macfall Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332042459 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 152
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Excerpt from Sir Henry Irving He had a fierce struggle to raise himself from obscurity to fame and he had bit ter and powerful detractors who knew him not, except for the self-imposed task of being a hindrance to him - men who, seeing spots on the sun, deny the sun its whole effulgence. 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.
Author: Haldane Macfall Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332042459 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Excerpt from Sir Henry Irving He had a fierce struggle to raise himself from obscurity to fame and he had bit ter and powerful detractors who knew him not, except for the self-imposed task of being a hindrance to him - men who, seeing spots on the sun, deny the sun its whole effulgence. 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.
Author: Jeffrey Richards Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781852853457 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 556
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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.
Author: Jeffrey Richards Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781852855918 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected and uplifting art form. This work gives an account of Irving and his impact on the Victorian theatre and life.
Author: Austin Brereton Publisher: ISBN: 9781330982464 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 92
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Excerpt from Henry Irving The first chapter of this book was revised by Sir Henry Irving a few months before his death. It formed part of an authoritative biography which, had Sir Henry Irving lived until his projected, formal farewell of the stage next autumn, would have been published then. I have thought it well to let this chapter stand exactly as it left his hands, as it represents just what he wished to be printed during his life-time. In the future, however, I purpose amplifying this sketch of the early life of the great actor. The other chief articles in this volume were written within a few hours of Sir Henry's death: Personal Recollections, for The Daily Telegraph; Some Reminiscences, for The Standard; and Henry Irving: the Actor, for The Illustrated London News. Henry Irving on Tour appeared in The Sphere, by a curious coincidence, on the day of his death; and that on Irving and Westminster Abbey in the same paper of the following week. 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.
Author: Percy Fitzgerald Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3387093578 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 281
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Author: David J. Skal Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1631490117 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1095
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Shortlisted for the Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Anthony Award (Critical Nonfiction) A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing us "the closest we can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale" (The New Yorker). In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal "pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire" (TIME magazine). Examining the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle, Skal stages Bram Stoker’s infirm childhood against a grisly tableau of medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that pervades Dracula. In later years, Stoker’s ambiguous sexuality is explored through his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving, and his romantic rivalry with lifelong acquaintance Oscar Wilde—here portrayed as a stranger-than-fiction doppelgänger. Recalling the psychosexual contours of Stoker’s life and art in splendidly gothic detail, Something in the Blood is the definitive biography for years to come.
Author: Charles Hiatt Publisher: ISBN: 9781330744888 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 410
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Excerpt from Henry Irving: A Record and Review In the following pages I have tried to give a straightforward account of Sir Henry Irving's theatrical career, from the time of his first appearance at Sunderland in 1856 to the recent production of Robespierre. Although I avow myself a warm admirer of the actor, I have not hesitated to quote unfavourable as well as laudatory criticisms of his impersonations. It has been my endeavour faithfully to represent the attitude which critics of the most diverse schools have taken up in regard to his work. The opinions of Mr. Clement Scott and Mr. William Archer, of Mr. Joseph Knight and Mr. A. B. Walkley, will accordingly be found side by side. I have purposely dealt at greater length with the earlier part of Sir Henry's life than with its more recent incidents, which are within the knowledge of all play-goers. To the studies of Irving by Mr. Austin Brereton, Mr. Joseph Hatton, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, and Mr. "Frederick Daly," I have made frequent reference. 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.
Author: Bram Stoker Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365255765 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 526
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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.
Author: Haldane Macfall
Author: Haldane Macfall
Author: Bram Stoker
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Author: Austin Brereton
Author: Percy Fitzgerald
Author: David J. Skal
Author: Charles Hiatt
Author: Bram Stoker
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