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A catalogue of the following unique selection of valuables of the late Edmund Kean, Esq., culled especially from his cottage in the Isle of Bute, and removed for peremptory sale ... by Mr. George Robins, at his auction rooms, in Covent Garden, on Tuesday, June the 17th, 1834. ...

Book/Text

Covent Garden [London] A. Robins, 1834.

1834

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-549Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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Edmund Kean, fire from heaven / by Raymund Fitzsimons.

Book/Text

New York : Dial Press, 1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) 77-2042Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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O Cesare o nessuno : azione drammatica in undici quadri con prologo liberamente ispirata alla vita e al mito di Edmund Kean / Vittorio Gassman ; collaborazione al testo di Luciano Lucignani. - 1. ed.

Book/Text

Milano : Garzanti, 1974.

1974

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The flash of lightning : a portrait of Edmund Kean / Giles Playfair.

Book/Text

London : Kimber, 1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) 85-658Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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[Edmund Kean].

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[ca. 1900?]

1900

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES+ (Kean, E.) 84-288Item locationOffsite
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The life and theatrical career of Edmund Kean, 1787-1833; with a foreword by Gordon Craig.

Book/Text

London, I. K. Fletcher, 1938.

1938

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJCY T-13Item locationOffsite

Stead Collection, 1672-1932.

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1672-1932

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Kean, the imaginary memoirs of an actor.

Book/Text

[New York] Orion Press [1962]

1962

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Kean, by Giles Playfair.

Book/Text

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1939.

1939

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) (Playfair, G. Kean)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The story of the drama in Exeter : during its best period, 1787 to 1823 : with reminiscences of Edmund Kean / by William Cotton.

Book/Text

London : Hamilton, Adams ; Exeter : W. Pollard, 1887.

1887

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNCOM [RBS] 97-1143Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The burning mask; a play by Peter Yates [pseud.]

Book/Text

London, Chatto and Windus, 1948.

1948

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The sun's bright child; the imaginary memoirs of Edmund Kean, by Julius Berstl.

Book/Text

London, Hammond, Hammond & co. ltd. [1946]

1946

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNCW (Berstl, J. Sun's bright child)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Booth's history of New York. v. 5 [graphic]

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1801-approximately 1886.

1801-1886

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Books from the library of the late Charles Kean ... also autographs and relics of his father Edmund Kean ... J & M.L. Tregaskis ... Sept. 19, 1898.

Book/Text

London, 1898.

1898

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FormatBook/TextCall number*GO (Kean, C. Books from the library)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Edmund Kean, by Harold Newcomb Hillebrand ...

Book/Text

New York, Columbia University Press, 1933.

1933

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-548 (Hillebrand, H. N. Edmund Kean)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The life and adventures of Edmund Kean, tragedian. 1787-1833. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy ...

Book/Text

London, Ward and Downey, 1888.

1888

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (KEAN, E.) [RBS] 97-551 (Molloy, J. F. Life and adventures of Edmund Kean, tragedian)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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New York during the last half century; a discourse in commemoration of the fifty-third anniversary of the New York Historical Society, and of the dedication of their new edifice, November 17, 1857.

Book/Text

New York, Trow, 1857.

1857

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-547Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The life of Edmund Kean.

Book/Text

New York : Harper, 1835.

1835

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-553 (Procter, B. W. Life of Edmund Kean)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Leben des berühmten brittischen Mimen Edmund Kean, mit Zügen und Anecdoten aus seiner theatralischen Laufbahn. Dem Englischen nacherzählt.

Book/Text

Hamburg, Perthes und Besser, 1836.

1836

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-550 (Lotz, G. Leben des beruhmten brittischen Mimen Edmund Kean)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The life of Edmund Kean ...

Book/Text

London, E. Moxon, 1835.

1835

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Kean, E.) [RBS] 97-552 (Procter, B. W. Life of Edmund Kean) v. 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Bugie sincere / Vittorio Gassman ; prefazione di Masolino D'Amico.

Book/Text

Milano : Longanesi, c1997.

1997

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 98-11321Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The life and adventures of Edmund Kean, tragedian, 1787-1833.

Book/Text

London, Downey & Co., 1897.

1897

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-Pforz BIO (Kean, E.) (Molloy. 1897)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Brutus, or, The fall of Tarquin : an historical tragedy, in five acts / by John Howard Payne, Esq. ; printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical, by D.--G.

Book/Text

London : John Cumberland, 19, Ludgate Hill, [ca. 1827]

1827

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FormatBook/TextCall numberArents BIP (Cumberlands 1825) 99-250 v. XItem locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Twelve great actors.

Book/Text

New York, Putnam's, 1900

1900

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWER (Robins, E. Twelve great actors)Item locationOffsite

Mad genius; a biography of Edmund Kean with particular reference to the women who made and unmade him.

Book/Text

London, New York, Hutchinson, 1950.

1950

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The life of Edmund Kean. From published and original sources. By F.W. Hawkins ...

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London, Tinsley Brothers, 1869.

1869

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-Pforz BIO (Kean, E.) (Hawkins. 1869)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Edmund Kean; the story of an actor, by W. Macqueen-Pope. Illustrated by Robert Hodgson.

Book/Text

Edinburgh, T. Nelson [c1960]

1960

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Kean, by Giles Playfair.

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London, G. Bless, 1939.

1939

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The actor and the alderman's wife; or, Kean and his little breeches! A farce in three acts. Written by Thomas Little. Dedicated to Edmund Kean. Embellished with caricature engravings.

Book/Text

London, T. Holt [1825]

1825

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FormatBook/TextCall number8-NCOF+ (Moore, T. Actor and the alderman's wife; or, Kean and his little breeches)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Kean. Lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest, book by Peter Stone, based on the comedy by Jean-Paul Sartre, adapted from the play by Alexandre Dumas.

Book/Text

New York [Studio Duplicating Service] 1961.

1961

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNCOF+ (Wright, R. Kean)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Kean, a poem. / By Theodore Norton.

Book/Text

London: : Published by W. Kenneth ..., 1835.

1835

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Venus of Dublin / Marianne Ackerman.

Book/Text

Winnipeg : Nuage Editions, c2000.

2000

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 00-15417Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Oxberry's 1822 edition of King Richard III, with the descriptive notes recording Edmund Kean's performance made by James Hackett. Reprinted in facsimile and edited with an introd. and notes by Alan S. Downer.

Book/Text

London, Society for Theatre Research, 1959.

1959-1822

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FormatBook/TextCall number*NCP (Shakespeare, W. King Richard III. London, 1959)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Covent Garden Theatre broadsides, 1828.

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1828

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FormatArchival MixCall numberMWEZ+ n.c. 18173Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Nesmrtelní pijáci : novella a povahopisné studie / napsal J. Arbes.

Book/Text

V Praze : Nákl. J. Otty, 1934.

1934

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FormatBook/TextCall number*QVM 01-6535Item locationOffsite

The life of Edmund Kean ... [microform].

Microform

London : Tinsley Bros., 1869.

1869

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Hamlet, a tragedy / by William Shakspeare.

Book/Text

London : Published for the proprietors, by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall ...; C. Chapple ...; and sold by W. and J. Lowndes ..., 1818.

1818

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FormatBook/TextCall numberPforz (Oxberry's editions of plays. V2)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Coriolanus, or, The Roman matron : a tragedy / by W. Shakspeare.

Book/Text

London : Published for the proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall ...; and C. Chapple, 1820.

1820

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FormatBook/TextCall numberPforz (Oxberry's editions of plays. V1)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Edmund Kean manuscript materials and ephemera, 1813-.

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FormatArchival MixCall number8-MWEZ+ n.c. 804Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Edmund Kean: clippings, 1820-1933.

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FormatArchival MixCall number8-MWEZ+ n.c. 5218Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The cult of Kean / Jeffrey Kahan.

Book/Text

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

2006

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Kean or disorder and genius (Sartre): program, 1990.

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FormatArchival MixCall numberMWEZ+ n.c. 30113.23Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Edmund Kean (excerpt) [videorecording] / Alexander H. Cohen & Hildy Parks present ; presented in association with Duncan C. Weldon, Paul Gregg, Lionel Becker, Peter Wilson ; coordinating producer, Roy A. Somlyo ; a new play by Raymund Fitzsimons ; directed by Alison Sutcliffe.

Film, Slide, etc.

New York, 1983.

1983

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FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberNCOX 646Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Edmund Kean : photographs.

Picture

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FormatPictureCall number*T-Pho B (Kean, Edmund)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Kean / by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Barnett Shaw, 1977. The play is about the early American actor Edmund Kean.

Manuscript

1977

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FormatMixed materialCall numberNCOF+ 11-3349Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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King Richard II (Individual performers) : photographs.

Picture

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