John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521629799)

John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Michael Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of the production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs. Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition. As well, it provides a biographical sketch of one of the most revered and tragic actors of the twentieth century. "This young artist, profiting by the lessons of tradition...casts it boldly aside and emerges into the rarefied atmosphere of a new art, greater because it is new, stronger because it is built upon an old foundation." Brooklyn Times, March 9, 1920

Author: Michael A. Morrison
ISBN-10: 0521629799
ISBN-13: 9780521629799
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/1999
Pages: 418
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.94w x 1.05d