Buell william ackerman (4 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Astor-Honor, Inc., New York, 1968
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Stated First Printing. Large red-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Black-&-white photography, several full-page. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped…) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
The Hamlets of the Theatre (Ex-Sacred Heart Convent Library)
Buell, William Ackerman, Otis Skinner, (forwd) and Howard Lindsay, (intro)
Verlag: , Astor-Honor Inc., An Obolensky Book, New York, 1968
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: VG Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed orange-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 174. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Hamlet was the only Shakespearean favourite that Sir…William Davenant's Duke's Company secured. It became the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented with movable flats painted with generic scenery behind the proscenium arch of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.This new stage convention highlighted the frequency with which Shakespeare shifts dramatic location, encouraging the recurrent criticism of his failure to maintain unity of place. In the title role, Davenant cast Thomas Betterton, who continued to play the Dane until he was 74. David Garrick at Drury Lane produced a version that adapted Shakespeare heavily; he declared: "I had sworn I would not leave the stage till I had rescued that noble play from all the rubbish of the fifth act. I have brought it forth without the grave-digger's trick, Osrick, & the fencing match". The first actor known to have played Hamlet in North America is Lewis Hallam Jr., in the American Company's production in Philadelphia in 1759. David Garrick expresses Hamlet's shock at his first sighting of the ghost. John Philip Kemble made his Drury Lane debut as Hamlet in 1783. His performance was said to be 20 minutes longer than anyone else's, and his lengthy pauses provoked the suggestion by Richard Brinsley Sheridan that "music should be played between the words".[176] Sarah Siddons was the first actress known to play Hamlet; many women have since played him as a breeches role, to great acclaim. In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation that focused on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment of an opposition to Claudius's tyrannya treatment that would recur in Eastern European versions into the 20th century. In the years following America's independence, Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the young nation's leading tragedian, performed Hamlet among other plays at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and at the Park Theatre in New York. Although chided for "acknowledging acquaintances in the audience" and "inadequate memorisation of his lines", he became a national celebrity.
The Hamlets of the Theatre
Buell, William Ackerman / Skinner, Otis {foreword} / Lindsay, Howard {introduction}
Verlag: Obolensky Book, Astor-Honor Inc., New York, NY U.S.A., 1968
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Verlag: New York: Astor-Honor, 1968, 1968
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st Edition. A history of the role. First edition, hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a lightly edgeworn VG+ dustjacket.
