Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh

by Stanley Wells

Book Overview

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198703295
• ISBN13: 9780198703297
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"