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Reminiscences of a dramatic critic : with an essay on the art of Henry Irving

Title
Reminiscences of a dramatic critic : with an essay on the art of Henry Irving / by Henry Austin Clapp.
Author
Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904.
Publication
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.

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Description
viii, 241 pages, [6] leaves of plates : portraits; 21 cm
Subject
  • Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
  • Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
  • Irving, Henry Sir 1838-1905
  • Irving, Henry
  • Theater > United States
  • Actors
  • Acting
  • actors (performing artists)
  • acting
  • Theater
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
By way of introduction -- Spectacle, farce, melodrama, and minstrelsy fifty years ago -- The worth and impotence of free criticism -- Some early experiences and mistakes -- Selwyn's theatre and the Robertson period -- The ephemeral drama and the enduring drama -- The great dramatic quinquennium and the Boston Museum -- William Warren, comedian -- Actual and ideal training for the stage -- J.L. Toole and Charles James Mathews -- Charlotte Cushman -- E.A. Sothersn, Sr -- The isolation of actors -- Charles Fechter -- Edwin Booth -- Tommaso Salvini -- Adelaide Neilson -- Memorable experiences of single plays and artists -- An American theatre privately endowed -- Henry Irving.
LCCN
02014130
OCLC
  • ocm00331260
  • 331260
  • SCSB-119476
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library