A Strange Eventful History The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
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Erscheinungsdatum
02.03.2010
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Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeitenzahl
664 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781429939041
"A hugely entertaining book, one that brings a vanished theaterworld-and an era itself-miraculously back to life." -Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal
Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker-who would go on to write Dracula-as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by storm in wildly popular national tours.
Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. It was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged.
An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic.
Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.
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