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 by
- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 241 p., [6] leaves of plates : ports.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- 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. Sothersn, 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.
- Call number
- MWES (Clapp) (Clapp, H. A. Reminiscences of a dramatic critic)
- Note
- Includes index.
- Author
- Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904.
- Title
- Reminiscences of a dramatic critic : with an essay on the art of Henry Irving / by Henry Austin Clapp.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.
- LCCN
- 02014130
- Research call number
- MWES (Clapp) (Clapp, H. A. Reminiscences of a dramatic critic)