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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.
Published
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Cambridge, the Riverside Press, 1902.
Physical Description
viii p., 1 l., 241, [1] p. 6 port. (incl. fron.) 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN,GEN: This copy unopened.
BEIN,GEN: Inscribed by Bruce Rogers.
Notes
"First edition."
"One hundred copies bound uncut with paper label."
Designed by Bruce Rogers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
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. Sothern, 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.
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Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
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