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Edmund Kean
Kean, Edmund
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Kean, Edmund (1787–1833). Actor. Son of an itinerant actress, Kean was exploited as an infant prodigy. The impassioned delivery of his appearance at Drury Lane (1814) as Shylock rapidly replenished the theatre's coffers. Barely average height, his flashing, sometimes demoniac approach, which so contrasted with the measured Kemble school, made him one of the most controversial of the early 19th‐cent. actors. Famous for his tragic roles of Richard III, Shylock, and Othello, youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch.
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"Hath not a Jew eyes?": Edmund Kean and the sympathetic Shylock.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...From the first scene in which Mr. Kean came on, my doubts were at an end...Stage, 1818 (Howe, 5: 174-75) Edmund Kean brought a complicated sympathy to...developed on stage and off. Since Kean, theatrical and literary readings...
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Plebeian gusto, negative capability, and the low company of "Mr. Kean": Keats' dramatic review for the Champion (21 December 817).
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Keats' review of Edmund Kean for the Champion (21 December...spontaneity of his subject, portrays "Edmund Kean," or more accurately, portrays...in modern dramatic writing as [Edmund] Kean has done in acting" (Gittings...
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Genus Disorder: Frank Castorf's Kean/Hamletmachine at the Volksbühne Berlin
Magazine article from: Western European Stages; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...production of Alexandre Dumas pere's Kean; or, Disorder and Genius /Heiner...flew at a point in the show when Edmund Kean's entourage surrounded a life...gender inequality. British actor Edmund Kean had only recently died when Dumas...
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KEAN ; You write the reviews ++ Festival Theatre MALVERN
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/6/2007; ; 605 words
; Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean, directed here by Adrian Noble, confounds expectations. Edmund Kean was the greatest romantic actor of the...womaniser. Now, Antony Sher plays Kean in Sartre's reworking of Alexandre...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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THEATRE: Smells like Kean spirit; CULTURE Antony Sher is returning to some of his greatest roles - at one remove. He talks to Terry Grimley about playing one of the 19th century's most notorious actors.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...Jean-Paul Sartre's 1954 play Kean he is playing the early 19th century Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, who electrified his contemporaries...CAPTION(S): Antony Sher plays Edmund Kean, the great 19th century Shakespearian...
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Keats in the company of Kean.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...gathering. The diners' disdain for "Kean and his low company," another attempt...socially symbolic reversal in which Kean comes to stand for those qualities...take Keats's explicit alliance with Edmund Kean here not only as an unapologetic embrace...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Berkoff, Shakespeare and the Sword of Kean.(Politics&Opinions)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 1/29/2001; 700+ words
; ...Shakespearean players, the age of Garrick and Kean and Edwin and John Wilkes Booth...sensations like Burbage, Garrick and Kean stalked the stage. In fact, when...a story that begins with Byron and Edmund Kean, one of the great Shakespearean actors...
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The false proscenium; Kean, Macbeth, and Marbett in England, Summer 2007.(Theater review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Kean Presented at the Apollo Theatre, London...The Prince of Wales), Antony Sher (Edmund Kean), Sam Kelly (Solomon), Jane Murphy...Romantic drama about the Regency actor Edmund Kean. The nesting effect of the design continued...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Kean's tale is too sober to applaud.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/1/2007; 479 words
; Kean (Apollo Theatre) Verdict: Not that keen .... EDMUND KEAN was one of our greatest actors. He was also seldom sober...news is that Antony Sher stars. Derek Jacobi once played Kean and was far too nice. Sher is the nearest thing to the...
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 "Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)")
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Revisiting greatness of Kean.(Ents Theatre Arts)
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England); 11/3/2004; 498 words
; ...at a genius ON THE very stage where Edmund Kean once rampaged, he is back again - and his return proves equally startling. Kean, the greatest actor of his age and...dressing room and effects used by Kean and where he scandalised locals by...
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Edmund Kean
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edmund Kean Considered one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century, Edmund Kean (1789-1833) restored authenticity...illegitimate son of Ann Carey, an actress, and Edmund Kean, an actor and apprentice surveyor. The...
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Kean, Edmund
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Kean, Edmund (1787?–1833), actor. The...x201D; continuing, “Mr. Kean appears to be beneath the middle size...never again revisited America. Biography: Edmund Kean: The Story of an Actor , W. J. Macqueen...
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Kean, Charles John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Kean, Charles John (1811–68), English actor-manager, son of Edmund Kean , who sent him to Eton with the idea of...They were not to play together again until Edmund Kean's last appearance. Charles had none...
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Kean, Charles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Kean, Charles. See Kean, Edmund .
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Simpson, Edmund Shaw
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Simpson, Edmund Shaw (1784–1848), actor and manager. Born in England...Teazle, Jaffier, and Richmond, which he played to the Richards of both Edmund Kean and Junius Brutus Booth. In 1812 Simpson was appointed acting manager...
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