1st Edition
Henry Irving A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager
Edited By Richard Foulkes
Copyright 2008
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Richard Foulkes; The chief and his champion: Irving and J.L. Toole, Michael Read; 'He danced, he did not merely walk - he sang, he by no means merely spoke': Irving, theatricality and the modernist theatre, Jim Davis; Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: a working partnership, Katharine Cockin; The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: the case of Hall Caine's Mahomet, Kristan Tetens; Embodiment of the king: Henry Irving's King Arthur, Doug Kirshen; Sins of the fathers: Dostoevsky and the murders of Henry and Laurence Irving, Laurence Senelick; Irving and his scenic artists, Jeffrey Richards; 'Henry and 250 supers': Irving, Robespierre and the staging of the revolutionary crowd, Jean Chothia; Serenade in a gondola: music and interpolated action in Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice, Stephen Cockett; Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Henry Irving's Macbeth, Kenneth Delong; The matter with Irving: Bernard Shaw and Irving reconsidered, L.W. Conolly; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Richard Foulkes
