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The Italian Shakespearians
Traces the history of Shakespeare in Italy until the middle of the nineteenth century and then focuses on Shakespearian interpretations of the three most famous Italian actors of the century. Illustrated.
The Hamlet of Edwin Booth
" '...Booth, to a majority of us, is Hamlet,' stated a reviewer in 1890. Thousands of playgoers agreed, and only regretted that Shakespeare himself could not see Booth perform. Booth's Hamlet became a national institution, a legend. He was for America the final major "starring tragedian" of his kind, who brought two centuries of tradition to a culmination and end. Charles Shattuck here presents the complete life of the Hamlet role as Booth played it from 1852, when his famous father told him he looked like Hamlet, to his weary farewell matinee in Brooklyn in 1891. He relates Booth's attempt to find his acting style and establish himself as a star, and observes the personal and intellectual f...
Annual Report
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
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British Letters
Edward Tuckerman Mason (1847-1911) published anthologies on American humor, along with studies of Samuel Johnson and Robert Browning, as well as a still admired - and ahead of its time - work on the Italian actor Tommaso Salvini and his interpretation of Othello. This volume is perhaps the most interesting of the three collections he compiled, as it presented his somewhat eccentric but entertaining view of British culture. To develop it, he partly relied on the help and advice of Steven Buttrick Noyes (1833-1885), who, as the head of the Brooklyn Library, built it into a major resource, partially owing to the fact that he was a distinguished bibliographer.
Othello
Lois Potter traces Othello 's acting tradition as it affected the playing of Othello, Desdemona, characters originally played by a white actor and a boy, respectively, and Iago. She examines the stage and screen versions of the play, including a full study of Paul Robeson's 1943 avatar of the character, that reflect or challenge current views about race and gender.
