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Romantic actors and bardolatry performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / by Woo, Celestine

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history England London.…”
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Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss / by Anderson, Emily Hodgson, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the actor -- Against loss -- The chronology of Garrick -- Theatrical time -- Celebrating performance -- Black Garrick versus Richard III -- Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello -- Becoming Richard, becoming Othello -- Garrick, ascendant -- Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne -- Garrick and the immortality of the stage -- Theatrical Tristram -- Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull -- Retelling The winter's tale -- The return of Leontes -- "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past -- Reanimating Lady Macbeth -- Siddons and the memory of Garrick -- The merchant of Venice and memorial debts -- "Shakespeare's" Shylock -- Clive's Portia -- Trial by theater and tradition -- Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage -- Shakespeare, retired -- Garrick's farewell -- Siddons, offstage -- Mourning performance.…”
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