Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth From His Birth To The Present Time
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Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth From His Birth To The Present Time
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Author : Junius Brutus Booth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth From His Birth To The Present Time written by Junius Brutus Booth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with Actors categories.
Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth
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Author : Junius Brutus Booth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth written by Junius Brutus Booth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Junius Brutus Booth
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Author : Stephen M. Archer
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2010-08-20
Junius Brutus Booth written by Stephen M. Archer and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an artist of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect. Archer provides a clear account of Booth’s professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. From 1817 to 1852 Junius Brutus Booth toured throughout North America, enjoying a reputation as the most distinguished Shakespearean tragedian on the American continent. Still, he yearned for success on the British stage, a goal he never attained. His public image as a drunken, dangerous lunatic obscured a private life filled with the richness of a close and loyal family. The worldwide fame assured for the Booth family of actors by John Wilkes Booth’s bone-shattering leap from the President’s box had eluded Junius Brutus Booth throughout his lifelong exile in America. But from that event until today, no American family of actors has stimulated such scrutiny as the Booths. Eight years of research, pursuing Booth from Amsterdam to San Francisco, has resulted in an accurate, fascinating narrative that both records and illuminates the actor’s life.
My Thoughts Be Bloody
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Author : Nora Titone
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-10-19
My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with History categories.
The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of nineteen, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. These ambitious brothers, born to theatrical parents, enacted a tale of mutual jealousy and resentment worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. From childhood, the stage-struck brothers were rivals for the approval of their father, legendary British actor Junius Brutus Booth. After his death, Edwin and John Wilkes were locked in a fierce contest to claim his legacy of fame. This strange family history and powerful sibling rivalry were the crucibles of John Wilkes’s character, exacerbating his political passions and driving him into a life of conspiracy. To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling’s meteoric rise. Their divergent paths—Edwin’s an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John’s a downward spiral into failure and obscurity—kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved Him
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Author : E. Lawrence Abel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-04-09
John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved Him written by E. Lawrence Abel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
A Catalogue Of Old Books With Specimens Now On Sale
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Author : John Cole (bookseller.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
A Catalogue Of Old Books With Specimens Now On Sale written by John Cole (bookseller.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with categories.
A Bibliographical Account Of English Theatrical Literature From The Earliest Times To The Present Day
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Author : Robert William Lowe
language : en
Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
Release Date : 1888
A Bibliographical Account Of English Theatrical Literature From The Earliest Times To The Present Day written by Robert William Lowe and has been published by London : J.C. Nimmo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Theater categories.
The Cult Of Kean
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Author : Jeffrey Kahan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-30
The Cult Of Kean written by Jeffrey Kahan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Shakespearean actor who made his career on the public stage, whose sex life was known and discussed in Britain, America and France, Edmund Kean has inspired numerous writings, many biographies among them. But until now, no work has tackled the complicated and fascinating story of his literary appropriation, both in his own day and after his death. Dealing with the way a variety of canonical authors-including Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Dumas, Twain and Sartre-appropriated Kean through the centuries, The Cult of Kean traces a remarkable literary legacy. In each chapter Jeffrey Kahan discusses how many of history's greatest figures viewed Kean, and how these figures examined and discussed themselves in relation to-or projected themselves onto-a variety of constructions of the great actor. Kahan first explores the rise of Kean in light of rising democratic sympathies, then in light of Kean's equally autocratic dealings with playwrights, among them John Keats. He looks at Kean's sexual shenanigans at Drury Lane, exploring them in the wider social context of infidelity; and explores perceptions of Kean in America, during his 1820-1 and 1825-6 tours. The Cult of Kean cites many letters from Kean's mother and still others from his wife, none of which have been published previously. The study also features rare and interesting paintings of Kean, as well as depictions of how writers, actors and film makers continue to add to his remarkable literary legacy.
The Theatrical Inquisitor Or Monthly Mirror
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
The Theatrical Inquisitor Or Monthly Mirror written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with English drama categories.
Actors On Acting
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Author : Toby Cole
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1970
Actors On Acting written by Toby Cole and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Redesigned with a contemporary new cover, this is a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of the actor's art and craft, as told by the theater's greatest practitioners, from ancient Greece to the 20th century.