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Great Shakespeare actors : Burbage to Branagh / by Wells, Stanley,1930-author.(CARDINAL)336385;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.Introduction -- Prelude: William Shakespeare -- Richard Burbage -- Will Kemp -- Robert Armin -- Thomas Betterton -- Charles Macklin -- David Garrick -- Who was the first great Shakespeare actress? -- Sarah Siddons -- George Frederick Cooke -- John Philip Kemble -- Dora Jordan -- Edmund Kean -- William Charles Macready -- Helen Faucit -- Who was the first great American Shakespeare actor? -- Ira Aldridge -- Charlotte Cushman -- Edwin Booth -- Henry Irving -- Ellen Terry -- Tommaso Salvini -- Times of change -- Edith Evans -- Sybil Thorndike -- Charles Laughton -- Donald Wolfit -- Ralph Richardson -- John Gielgud -- Laurence Olivier -- Peggy Ashcroft -- Michael Redgrave -- Paul Scofield -- Donald Sinden -- Richard Pasco -- Ian Richardson -- Judi Dench -- Derek Jacobi -- Ian McKellen -- Janet Suzman -- Antony Sher -- Simon Russell Beale -- Kenneth Branagh.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, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance. Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.
Subjects: Shakespearean actors and actresses.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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If we were villains [sound recording] : / by Rio, M. L.(CARDINAL)631497; Petkoff, Robert,narrator.;
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Shakespearean actors and actresses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Making it so [sound recording] : a memoir / by Stewart, Patrick,1940-author,narrator.(CARDINAL)175316;
Read by the author."From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life- from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim- proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Stewart, Patrick, 1940-; Actors; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Motion picture actors and actresses; Television actors and actresses;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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Sweet sorrow / by Nicholls, David,1966-author.(CARDINAL)460647;
"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Fathers and sons; Shakespearean actors and actresses; First loves; Friendship; Friendships.;
Available copies: 36 / Total copies: 37
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Sweet sorrow [large print] / by Nicholls, David,1966-author.;
"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life"--On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight-year-old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past and the events of one particular summer when, at age sixteen, he was willing to deceive his friends and become an entirely different person--all for the sake of being with Fran Fisher. Now Charlie realizes that he can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Large print books.; Interpersonal relations; Fathers and sons; Shakespearean actors and actresses; First loves; Friendship; Friendships.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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If we were villains / by Rio, M. L.,author.(CARDINAL)631497;
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.
Subjects: Campus fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); College students; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Actors; Murder; Universities and colleges; Detective and mystery fiction.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Ira's Shakespeare dream / by Armand, Glenda,author.(CARDINAL)397193; Cooper, Floyd,illustrator.(CARDINAL)344633;
Includes bibliographical references."A biography chronicling the life of Ira Aldridge, an African American actor who is considered to be one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--780LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867; Actors; Actors; African American actors; African American actors; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Shakespearean actors and actresses;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Performing Shakespeare / by Hester, John.(CARDINAL)548410;
Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Acting; Shakespearean actors and actresses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Twisted vines : a Shakespeare in the vineyard mystery / by Price, Carole,(Carole Joyce),1935-author.;
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Life change events; Theaters; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Vineyards; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Twisted vines [Large Print] : a Shakespeare in the vineyard mystery / by Price, Carole(Carole Joyce),1935-(CARDINAL)400299;
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Life change events; Theaters; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Vineyards; Murder;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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