Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth

1977 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Watermeier ◽  
Charles H. Shattuck
Keyword(s):  
Edwin Booth

American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth by Daniel J. Watermeier

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-343
Author(s):  
Michael A. Rothmayer
Keyword(s):  
Edwin Booth

Versatile tragedians: Edwin Booth and James E. Murdoch

1952 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Garff B. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Edwin Booth

Prince of Players: Edwin Booth.

1955 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
William Van Lennep ◽  
Eleanor Ruggles
Keyword(s):  
Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth: Mystery as Consolation

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Stanley Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Edwin Booth

Hamlet as Edwin Booth

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Robert Cohen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Edwin Booth

Since Edwin Booth was so generally considered the best American actor of his time (some say of all time), and since Hamlet was his best known and most frequently performed role, our interest in it is more than academic. Booth knew Hamlet as well as any man in his century. His particular illumination of the role—an intellectual, neurotic, romantic Hamlet—has become a part of our own understanding of the character and has been reflected in the recent interpretations of Burton, O'Toole, and Plummer.Booth first played Hamlet in California, at the suggestion of his father, Junius Brutus Booth, and it quickly became his most celebrated role. When Edwin joined with John (Sleeper) Clarke and William Stuart in the management of the Winter Garden Theatre in New York, Hamlet was his first production. It had a phenomenal run of one-hundred nights, setting a record which was not eclipsed for some time.

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