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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.
Contents
Introduction
Prelude: William Shakespeare
1: Richard Burbage
2: Will Kemp
3: Robert Armin
4: Thomas Betterton
5: Charles Macklin
6: David Garrick
Who Was the First Great Shakespeare Actress?
7: Sarah Siddons
8: George Frederick Cooke
9: John Philip Kemble
10: Dora Jordan
11: Edmund Kean
12: William Charles Macready
13: Helen Faucit
Who Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor?
14: Ira Aldridge
15: Charlotte Cushman
16: Edwin Booth
17: Henry Irving
18: Ellen Terry
19: Tommaso Salvini
Times of Change
20: Edith Evans
21: Sybil Thorndike
22: Charles Laughton
23: Donald Wolfit
24: Ralph Richardson
25: John Gielgud
26: Laurence Olivier
27: Peggy Ashcroft
28: Michael Redgrave
29: Paul Scofield
30: Donald Sinden
31: Richard Pasco
32: Ian Richardson
33: Judi Dench
34: Derek Jacobi
35: Ian McKellen
36: Janet Suzman
37: Antony Sher
38: Simon Russell Beale
39: Kenneth Branagh
