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Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / Celestine Woo.

  • Accession number

    83448640

  • Class

    Reading Room - 72/WOO

  • ISBN

    9781433101632 (hardcover : alk. paper)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xiii, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Introduction. Bardolatry and "romantic" actors -- David Garrick: commodifying Shakespeare -- John Philip Kemble: consecrating Shakespeare -- Sarah Siddons: feminizing Shakespeare -- Edmund Kean: ironic icon, transgressive tabula rasa.