from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José
Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Theatre Actors
Theatre actors and acting: general
Miscellaneous
On individual actors
Early works
The Actors' Remonstrance. Pamphlet. London, 1643.
Archer, William. Masks or Faces? A Study in the Psychology of
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Bharat Muni
(Attr.). Natya Shastra. Ancient
Sanskrit treatise on drama. (c. 200 BC-200 AD).
_____. The Natyasastra Ascribed to Bharata-Muni. Trans. Manomohan Ghosh,
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Churchill,
Charles. The Rosciad. Satire against
actors. 1761.
Diderot,
Denis. Paradoxe
sur le comédien. Written 1773-6, pub. 1830.
_____. Paradoxe sur le comédien. In Diderot, Oeuvres esthétiques. Ed. Pierre Vernière. Paris: Garnier, 1988.
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_____. Paradoxe sur le comédien précédé des
Entretiens sur le fils naturel. Chronologie et préface par Raymond Laubreaux. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion,
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_____. The
Paradox of Acting: Translated with Annotations from Diderot's 'Paradoxe sur le
comédien'. Trans. Walter Herries Pollock. Prologue by Henry Irving. London:
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_____. Paradoja acerca del
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I. "Tragic actors." In D'Israeli, Curiosities
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Hazlitt, William. "On Actors and Acting." 1817.
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Heywood,
Thomas. An Apology for Actors.
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_____. An Apology for Actors. London:
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_____. An Apology for Actors. Select. in Literary Criticism from Plato to Dryden
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_____. An Apology for Actors. In The English Stage: Attack and Defense
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Lamb,
Charles. "On Some of the Old
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Larra, Mariano José de. "Yo quiero
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Lewes, G.
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Riccoboni,
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Sainte-Albine,
Pierre Rémond de. Le Comédien. 1747.
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_____. The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing.
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Trapp,
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Theatre actors and acting: general
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Michael. The Modern Actor.
Goldman,
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Mann,
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Redgrave,
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Stanislavski,
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_____. An Actor Prepares. Trans. E. R. Hapgood.
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_____. Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage.
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_____. Building a Character. Trans. E. R.
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_____. (Constantin
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_____. (Constantin Stanislavski). La
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Sternberg,
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Peter. On Actors and Acting. U of Exeter P, 2000.
Miscellaneous
Actor y técnica de representación del teatro
clásico español.
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Aubrun,
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_____.
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_____.
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Mychael Danna. Cinematogr. Nicola Pecorini. Ed. Mick Audsley. Prod des.
Anastasia Masaro. Art dir. Dan Hermansen and Denis Schnegg. Set decor. Carolin
Smith, Shane Vieau. Costume des. Monique Prudhomme. Prod. Amy Gilliam, Terry
Gilliam, Samuel Hadida. 2009.*
Jane Austen in Manhattan. Dir. James Ivory.
Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Cast: Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael
Wager, Sean Young. Music by Richard Robbins. Photog. Ernest Vincze and Larry
Pizer. Assoc. Prod. Connie Kaiserman. Prod. Ismail Merchant. Merchant Ivory
Productions / Polytel International, 1980. DVD prod. HanWay Films. Spanish DVD: Jane Austen en Manhattan.
(Colección Merchant-Ivory). Spain: Manga Films, 2008.*
Limelights. Dir. Charles Chaplin.
Little Men. Dir. Ira Sachs.
USA, 2016.*
Present Laughter. Comedy by Noel Coward. Cast: Donald Sinden,
Dinah Sheridan, Gwen Watford, Elizabeth Counsell, Julian Fellowes, Belinda
Lang. Prod. Alan Strachan. Recorded by BBC TV from the Stage of the Vaudeville
Theatre, London. 1981. Online at YouTube
(E.W.R. Many) 9 Feb. 2013.*
http://youtu.be/mMmRDTljAHs
2014
Stage Beauty. Dir. Richard Eyre. Written by Jeffrey Hatcher,
based on his play Compleat Female Stage
Beauty. Cast: Billy Crudup (Ned Kynaston), Claire Danes (Maria Hughes),
Rupert Everett (King Charles II), Hugh Bonneville (Samuel Pepys), Richard
Griffiths (Sir Charles Sedley), Edward Fox (Sir Edward Hyde), Tom Hollander
(Sir Peter Lely), Zoë Tapper (Nell Gwynn). Music by George Fenton.
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn. Ed. Tariq Anwar. Prod. Des. Jim Clay. Art dir.
Keith Slote, Jan Spoczynski. Set Decoration by Caroline Smith. Costume design
by Tim Hatley. Exec. Prod. Rachel Cohen,
Richard Eyre, Michael Kuhn, Amir Malin, James D. Stern. Coprod. Michael Dreyer.
Prod. Robert de Niro, Hardy Justice, Jane Rosenthal. Lions Gate Films / Qwerty
Films, Tribeca Productions / N1 European Film Produktions / BBC Films, 2004.*
(Spanish title: Belleza prohibida).
Ukigusa. Dir. Ozu. 1959. (Strolling players).
Die Unsichtbare. Dir. Christian Schwochow. 2011.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1717152/
2015
Internet
resources
English Actors at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/actors/pics.html
2012
"Masks or Faces?" Wikipedia:
The Free Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_or_Faces
2017
Journals
Women and Performance 2.2 (1985).
Literature
Chejov,
Antón P. "Actor trágico a pesar suyo." Drama.
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Ed. Nicolás González Ruiz. Barcelona: Labor, 1965. 2.1253-55.*
Dumas, Alexandre (fils). Kean, ou désordre et
génie. Drama. 1836. Adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre as Kean.
Griffiths,
Trevor. Comedians. Drama. Premiere at
Nottingham and London, 1975. (Art and commerce, art and authenticity).
Hatcher, Jeffrey. Complete Female Stage Beauty. Drama.
Hayes,
Douglas. A Player's Hide. Fiction.
London: Granada-Panther Books.
Highsmith,
Patricia. "Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance." From The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder. In
The Selected Stories of Patricia
Highsmith. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001. 3-11.*
Marivaux. Les Acteurs de bonne foi. La Dispute. L'Epreuve. (GF 166). Paris:
Garnier-Flammarion.
Marston,
John. Histrio-Mastix. Or, THE PLAYER
whipt. London: Printed [by George Eld] for Th. Thorp., 1610. Online
facsimile at the Internet Archive.*
https://archive.org/details/histriomastixorp00mars
2021
Maugham, W.
Somerset. Theatre. Novel.
Osborne, John. The Entertainer. Drama. 1957. (Music-hall performer).
Sartre,
J.-P. Kean. Drama. Paris: Gallimard,
1954.
Villiers,
George (Earl of Buckingham). The
Rehearsal. Drama. 1671.
Williams, Tennessee. The Two-Character Play, 1969. (On two
deserted actors).
_____. Outcry. 1973. New version of The
Two-Character Play.
Wood, Charles. Veterans. Drama. London, 1972. (Old actors).
Video
Ludwig,
Adam, et al. "Acting and Mirror Neurons." Panel discussion at the
Philoctetes Center. With Blair Brown, Vittorio Gallese, Joe Grifasi, Robert
Landy, Adam Ludwig, and Tom Vasiliades. YouTube
(philoctetesctr) 29 Nov. 2007.*
http://youtu.be/loB-Lg0X1qo
2013
Coward,
Noël. "Noël Coward on Acting." Interviewed by Michael MacOwan. YouTube
(E. W. R. Many) 11 Feb. 2013.*
http://youtu.be/kxQCupMdTQE
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Hytner,
Nicholas. "Stand and Unfold Yourself: How to Do Shakespeare." 2nd
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http://youtu.be/6olzcG2CF0U
2014
See also
Film actors; Performance; World as Stage.
Individual
actors
Marta Abba
Bini, Daniela. Pirandello and His
Muse: The Plays for Marta Abba. (Crosscurrents: comparative studies in
European Literature and Philosophy). Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1998.
Edward Alleyn
Main actor
of the Admiral's Men; son-in-law of John Donne.
Literature
Jonson, Ben. "To Edward Allen
(Alleyne)." From Epigrammes,
1616 (lxxxix). In The Oxford Book of
Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 152.*
Robert Armin
Armin. Two Maides of Moreclacke. 1609.
Bradbrook, M. C. "Robert Armin and Twelfth Night." In Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. (Casebook
series). Ed. D. J. Palmer. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1972. 222-44.
Peggy Ashcroft
Sisson,
Rosemary Anne. "Glen Byam Shaw's Production with Peggy Ashcroft's
Rosalind." 1957. In Shakespeare: Much
Ado about Nothing and As You Like It.
Ed. John Russell Brown. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979.
235-38.*
Anthologies
Jackson,
Russell, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Volume
XVI: Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench. (Great Shakespeareans, set IV). London:
Bloomsbury, 2013.*
Barker
Trussler,
Simon. "17. Romance and Realism 1891-1914." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 260-77.* (From Victorian
to Edwardian. The social and the intelelctual divide. The actor-managers and
the vogue for romance. Actresses, the 'woman question', and the suffragette
drama. The problem play and the nature of naturalism. The play-producing societies
and the Vedrenne-Baker partnership. Playwrights and popularity. The
self-fashioning of Bernard Shaw. Censorship, training, and organization. The
repertory movement and the Irish renaissance. Approaches to Shakespeare: Tree,
Benson, Poel, Barker—and Craig. Musical comedy and revue. Music hall and the
arrival of cinema. From Burlesque to Revue).
Elizabeth
Barry
Howe, Elizabeth. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Films
The Libertine.
John
Barrymore
Morrison,
Michael A. John Barrymore: Shakespearean
Actor. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
F.
R. Benson
Montague,
Charles Edward. "F. R. Benson's Richard
II." Manchester Guardian (1899). Online at Wikisource
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/F._R._Benson%27s_Richard_II
2013
Trussler,
Simon. "17. Romance and Realism 1891-1914." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 260-77.* (From Victorian
to Edwardian. The social and the intelelctual divide. The actor-managers and
the vogue for romance. Actresses, the 'woman question', and the suffragette
drama. The problem play and the nature of naturalism. The play-producing
societies and the Vedrenne-Baker partnership. Playwrights and popularity. The
self-fashioning of Bernard Shaw. Censorship, training, and organization. The
repertory movement and the Irish renaissance. Approaches to Shakespeare: Tree,
Benson, Poel, Barker—and Craig. Musical comedy and revue. Music hall and the
arrival of cinema. From Burlesque to Revue).
Sarah
Bernhardt
Biography
Aston,
Elaine. Sarah Bernhardt. 1989.
Life of Sarah Bernhardt. 1907.
Ramos-Gay,
Ignacio. "'Partly American!' Sarah Bernhardt's Transnational Disability in
the American Press (1915-1918)." Atlantis
40.2 (Dec. 2018): 63-80.*
http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.04
2019
Strachey, Lytton. "Sarah Bernhardt." The Nation and the Atheaneum 5 May 1923. In Strachey, Characters and Commentaries. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1933. 273-78.*
Stokes, John, Michael R. Booth and Susan Bassnett. Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: The Actress in her Time. 1988.
Literature
Wilde,
Oscar. "To Sarah Bernhardt." (="Phèdre"). Poem. The World 11 June 1879.
_____.
"Phèdre." In The Works of Oscar
Wilde. Ed. G. F. Maine. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1938. 1957. 765.*
Betterton
Trussler,
Simon. "9. The Birth of a Bourgeois Theatre 1682-1707." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 134-45.* (The lean years
of the United Company: plays, politics, audiences. Betterton defects to
Lincoln's Inn. Attitudes to actresses, and the development of the benefit
system. Formulating the 'rules' of acting. The rise of the younger generation,
and the significance of Colley Cibber. The Collier controversy, the city, and
the credit economy. George Farquhar, and 'hard' versus 'humane' comedy. The
female wits. A new 'war of the theatres'. The companies reunited).
Films
Stage Beauty. Dir. Richard Eyre. Written by Jeffrey Hatcher,
based on his play Compleat Female Stage
Beauty. Cast: Billy Crudup (Ned Kynaston), Claire Danes (Maria Hughes),
Rupert Everett (King Charles II), Hugh Bonneville (Samuel Pepys), Richard
Griffiths (Sir Charles Sedley), Edward Fox (Sir Edward Hyde), Tom Hollander
(Sir Peter Lely), Zoë Tapper (Nell Gwynn). Music by George Fenton.
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn. Ed. Tariq Anwar. Prod. Des. Jim Clay. Art dir.
Keith Slote, Jan Spoczynski. Set Decoration by Caroline Smith. Costume design
by Tim Hatley. Exec. Prod. Rachel Cohen,
Richard Eyre, Michael Kuhn, Amir Malin, James D. Stern. Coprod. Michael Dreyer.
Prod. Robert de Niro, Hardy Justice, Jane Rosenthal. Lions Gate Films / Qwerty
Films, Tribeca Productions / N1 European Film Produktions / BBC Films, 2004.*
(Spanish title: Belleza prohibida).
Booth
Anthologies
Schoch,
Richard, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Vol.
VI: Macready, Booth, Irving, Terry. (Great Shakespeareans, set II). London:
Bloomsbury, 2011.*
Philip
Bosco
Video
Bentley,
Eric, and Philip Bosco. "Theater Talk: Life and Work of Playwright George
Bernard Shaw." Interview. YouTube
(cunytv75) 11 May 2011.*
https://youtu.be/Ws-oNJaCxes
2015
James
Burbage
Documents
"Privy
Seal of Queen Elizabeth, May 7, 1574, granting a Licence for Dramatic
Performances to James Burbage and Others." In The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart Princes,
1543-1664. Ed. William Carew Hazlitt. 1869. Rpt. New York, 1964. 25-26.
Internet
resources
"James
Burbage." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burbage
2013
Richard Burbage (c. 1569-1619).
Toni Cantó
Audio
Cárdenas,
Josué, and David V. Castro. "La Burbuja
03/10/2022." Audio. Decisión Radio 3 Oct. 2022.* (Toni Cantó; Jesús
Quintero; Sexual violence, Vox; Felipe VI).
https://www.spreaker.com/user/15370933/la-burbuja-03-10-2022
2022
Video
Jiménez
Losantos, Federico. "Federico Jiménez Losantos entrevista a Toni
Cantó." YouTube
(esRadiovideos) 17 March 2021.*
https://youtu.be/EMvjLO272Hg
2021
María Casares
Works
Camus, Albert, and María Casares. Correspondance
1955-1959. Paris: Gallimard.
Alberto Closas
Bravo,
Julio. "Alberto Closas, un animal de teatro." ABC 12 July 2020.*
https://www.abc.es/cultura/teatros/abci-alberto-closas-animal-teatro-202007120123_noticia.html
2020
Coluche
Internet
resources
"Coluche."
Wikipédia: L'Encyclopédie libre.*
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluche
2015
Coquelin
Criticism
Strachey,
Lytton. "Coquelin." (Actor). 1908. In Strachey, Spectatorial Essays. London: Chatto, 1964. 203-7.
Craig
Trussler,
Simon. "17. Romance and Realism 1891-1914." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 260-77.* (From Victorian
to Edwardian. The social and the intelelctual divide. The actor-managers and
the vogue for romance. Actresses, the 'woman question', and the suffragette
drama. The problem play and the nature of naturalism. The play-producing
societies and the Vedrenne-Baker partnership. Playwrights and popularity. The
self-fashioning of Bernard Shaw. Censorship, training, and organization. The
repertory movement and the Irish renaissance. Approaches to Shakespeare: Tree,
Benson, Poel, Barker—and Craig. Musical comedy and revue. Music hall and the
arrival of cinema. From Burlesque to Revue).
Judi
Dench
Thompson,
Flora. Lark Rise to Candleford.
Audio. (Penguin Audiobook). Read by Judi Dench. London: Penguin.
Anthologies
Jackson,
Russell, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Volume
XVI: Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench. (Great Shakespeareans, set IV). London:
Bloomsbury, 2013.*
Films
A Performance of Macbeth, by William
Shakespeare. TV
prod. Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Trevor Nunn. Cast: Ian McKellen, Judi
Dench, John Woodvine and Bob Peck. YouTube
(John Baxter) 17 Oct. 2019.*
https://youtu.be/7skhaOegpLA
2020
Andrew
Ducrow (1793-1848)
Manager of Astley's amphitheatre 1830-41.
Eleonora
Duse
Biography
Stokes, John, Michael R. Booth and Susan Bassnett. Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: The Actress in her Time. 1988.
Weaver,
William. Duse: Una biografía. Trans. Maribel de Juan. Madrid: Siruela.
Nuria
Espert
Works
Bizet. Carmen. Dir. Zubin Mehta. Theatre dir.
Nuria Espert. With
Maria Ewing. Rec. London, 1991. YouTube
14 Aug. 2014.*
https://youtu.be/tw_ccAPKUmM
2015
García Lorca. Yerma. With Nuria Espert.
Shakespeare. La
violación de Lucrecia. Monologue by Nuria Espert.
Criticism
Amorós,
Andrés. "Nuria y los chicos." In Amorós, Diario cultural. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe,
1983. 133-41.* (Nuria Espert).
Gregorio
Esteban Sánchez (d. 2017 at 85)
(Spanish singer, comedian and humourist, a.k.a. "Chiquito de la
Calzada")
Edith
Evans
Criticism
"Edith
Evans as Rosalind at the Old Vic and the New Theatre." 1936, 1937. In Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing
and As You Like It. Ed. John
Russell Brown. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 233-34.*
Fechter
Criticism
Dickens,
Charles. "A propósito del arte escénico del
señor Fechter." In Dickens, Obras
completas. Trans. and notes by José Méndez Herrera. Vol. IV. Madrid:
Aguilar. Rpt. Madrid: Santillana Ediciones Generales, 2004. 968-72.*
Sir
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937)
(British actor, famous Hamlet)
Works: Writings
Forbes-Robertson,
Johnston (Sir). A Player under Three
Reigns. Memoirs. 1925. (Wilde, etc.).
Works: Films
Forbes-Robertson,
Johnston (Sir), dir. Hamlet. 1913.
Juan
Luis Galiardo
(Spanish
actor, d. 2012)
Sir
John Gielgud
Works: Writings
Gielgud,
John. Stage Directions. (Staging).
1963.
_____. An Actor and His Time. London, 1979.
Works: Films
Gielgud,
John, dir. Hamlet. Filmed drama based
on a Broadway rehearsal. (= ¿ Hamlet.
With Richard Burton. TV Film. Electronovision).
Criticism
Davies,
Brenda. "Hamlet." Monthly Film
Bulletin 39 (1972): 163. (Richard Burton/John Gielgud).
Ellis,
Ruth. "Gielgud's Production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre." (Much Ado About Nothing." 1949. In Shakespeare:
Much Ado about Nothing and As You
Like It. Ed. John Russell Brown. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1979. 225.*
Audio
Shakespeare. William. King Lear. Radio play. (10 April 1994) - Starring Sir John Gielgud
and Kenneth Branagh. The Renaissance Theatre Company / Glyn Dearman. BBC 3
radio drama. YouTube (Roman Styran)
15 June 2015.*
https://youtu.be/1JylxvHvdtA
2020
Sheridan, R. B. The School for Scandal. Audio. Dir. John Gielgud. John Gielgud
(Joseph Surface), Ralph Richardson (Sir Peter Teazle), Geraldine McEwan (Lady
Teazle), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Mrs. Candour), Meriel Forbes, Laurence
Naismith, Malcolm Keen, Richard Easton. Album, 1963. YouTube (Roman Styeran Audio Recording Collection) 3 July 2015.*
https://youtu.be/EmqWX0jPFo4
2015
Vaughan
Williams, Ralph. "The Pilgrim's Progress: Vanity Fair and the Death of
Faithful." The Pilgrim's Progress:
Complete Radio-Play with Incidental Music (from the BBC Broadcast of 5th
September, 1943). Granville Bantock. Two Choruses. John Gielgud as
Christian. BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Chorus / Sir Adrian Boult. YouTube (Sir John Gielgud - Tema) 30
April 2016.*
https://youtu.be/cmbrq0xi_SU
2021
Charles
Gilpin (1878-1930)
(Black
American actor and theatre manager, leader of all-black Lafayette company,
Harlem)
Agustín González
Criticism
Martín Gaite, Carmen. "Elogio de un
actor." ABC 23 Feb. 1961. In
Martín Gaite, Tirando del hilo (artículos
1949-2000). Ed. José Teruel.
Madrid: Siruela, 2006. 38-40.* (Agustín González).
Henry Goodman
Works
Cordner, Mike. "Performing Ben Jonson's Volpone: Explorations with Henry Goodman at the University of
York." Video. YouTube (TFTI) 1
Oct. 2016.*
https://youtu.be/dqDnzlpADz8
2020
Thomas
Greene
Works
Cooke, John. Greenes To quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers
times acted by the Queenes Maiesties Servants. Written by Io. Cooke Gent.
Printed at London for John Trundle, 1614. (On THOMAS Greene, clown to Queen
Anne's Men).
Nell Gwynn
Cunningham,
Peter. Nell Gwyn, together with Mrs
Jameson's Lives of the Duchess of Portsmouth and Cleveland. First pub. in Gentleman's Magazine. (Beaux and Belles
of England). 1851.
Dasent, Arthur Irwin. Nell Gwynne. 1924. (Charles II, etc.).
Rodríguez-Loro, Nora. "Charles II's Mistresses and Patronesses of Drama: The Dedications
Addressed to Cleveland, Gwyn, and Portsmouth." In (Re)defining Gender in Early Modern English Drama. Ed. Laura
Martínez-García and María José Álvarez Faedo. Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. 23-48.*
Hawtrey
Strachey,
Lytton. "Mr Hawtrey." 1908. In Strachey, Spectatorial Essays. London:
Chatto, 1964. 189-93.
Lola
Herrera
Wikipedia. "Lola Herrera." Wikipedia:
La enciclopedia libre.*
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Herrera
2022
Maria
Hughes
Criticism
Howe, Elizabeth. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Films
Stage Beauty. Dir. Richard Eyre. Written by Jeffrey Hatcher,
based on his play Compleat Female Stage
Beauty. Cast: Billy Crudup (Ned Kynaston), Claire Danes (Maria Hughes),
Rupert Everett (King Charles II), Hugh Bonneville (Samuel Pepys), Richard
Griffiths (Sir Charles Sedley), Edward Fox (Sir Edward Hyde), Tom Hollander
(Sir Peter Lely), Zoë Tapper (Nell Gwynn). Music by George Fenton.
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn. Ed. Tariq Anwar. Prod. Des. Jim Clay. Art dir.
Keith Slote, Jan Spoczynski. Set Decoration by Caroline Smith. Costume design
by Tim Hatley. Exec. Prod. Rachel Cohen,
Richard Eyre, Michael Kuhn, Amir Malin, James D. Stern. Coprod. Michael Dreyer.
Prod. Robert de Niro, Hardy Justice, Jane Rosenthal. Lions Gate Films / Qwerty
Films, Tribeca Productions / N1 European Film Produktions / BBC Films, 2004.*
(Spanish title: Belleza prohibida).
Literature
Hatcher, Jeffrey. Complete Female Stage Beauty. Drama.
Henry
Irving
Writings
Diderot,
Denis. The Paradox of Acting: Translated with Annotations from Diderot's
'Paradoxe sur le comédien'. Trans. Walter Herries Pollock. Prologue by
Henry Irving. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Online facsimile at the
Internet Archive.*
https://archive.org/details/cu31924027175961/page/n91/mode/2up
2022
Works: theatrical productions
Cymbeline. Staged by Henry Irving, with Irving and Ellen
Terry. London: Lyceum Theatre, 1896.
Criticism
Archer,
William, and Robert W. Lowe. (Anon.). The
Fashionable Tragedian. Pamphlet. 1877. (Vs. Henry Irving).
Irving,
Lawrence. Henry Irving.
Stoker,
Bram. Personal Reminiscences of Henry
Irving. 1906.
Wedmore,
Frederick. "Irving as Benedick and Ellen Terry as Beatrice." 1882. In
Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It. Ed. John Russell
Brown. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 222.*
Wilde,
Oscar. "Hamlet at the
Lyceum." The Dramatic Review 9 May 1885. Rev. of Henry Irving's
production.
_____.
"Hamlet at the Lyceum." In
Wilde, Selected Journalism. Ed. Anya
Clayworth. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 47-50.*
_____.
"Olivia at the Lyceum."
Rev. of Olivia, by W. G. Wills, prod.
Henry Irving, Lyceum Theatre. The
Dramatic Review 30 May 1885.
_____.
"Olivia at the Lyceum." In
Wilde, Selected Journalism. Ed. Anya
Clayworth. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 53-56.*
Anthologies
Schoch,
Richard, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Vol.
VI: Macready, Booth, Irving, Terry. (Great Shakespeareans, set II). London:
Bloomsbury, 2011.*
Joseph Jefferson (US actor, 1829-1905)
Jordan
Tomalin,
Claire. Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The
Actress and the Prince. London: Viking, 1994.
Dagny Juel
Kott, Jan.
"Dagny and Lulu." In Around the
Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby
Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 11-18.* (Wedekind, Dagny Juel,
Strindberg).
Charles
Kean
Kean,
Charles, adapt. King Lear. In King
Lear. (Acting Versions of Shakespeare). Cornmarket Press, 1969.
Cole, J. W.
The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles
Kean, F. S. A. 1959.
Nilan, Mary
M. "Shakespeare, Illustrated: Charles Kean's 1857 Production of The Tempest."Shakespeare Quarterly
26 (1975): 196-204.
_____.
"Shakespeare, Illustrated: Charles Kean's 1857 Production of The Tempest." In Shakespeare in the Theatre. Ed. Stephen
Orgel and Sean Keilen. New York: Garland, 1999. 232-40.*
_____. "Shakespeare,
Illlustrated Charles Kean's 1857
Production of The Tempest." In The Tempest: Critical Essays. Ed.
Patrick M. Murphy. New York; Routledge, 2001. 330-40.*
Internet resources
"Charles Kean." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kean
2011
Edmund Kean
Trussler,
Simon. "13. From Manners to Melodrama 1776-1814." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 194-211.* (The Sheridan
phenomenon. From mannered comedy to political spectacle. Enlargement of the
patent houses. Minor theatres and the origins of melodrama. Naval drama,
topical and gothic spectacle. Underclass as audience. Tableaux vivants. The
'compilation bill'. Philip Astley and Joe Grimaldi. The 'Kemble religion'. The
point of 'points'. Significance of the OP Riots. Kean: the Anarchy of the
Passion).
Internet
resources
"Edmund
Kean." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kean
2011
Literature
Dumas,
Alexandre. Kean. Drama.
Sartre, J.
P. Kean. Drama.
Keely
Goodman,
Walter. The Keeleys on the Stage and at
Home. 1895.
Charles
Kemble
Criticism
Hazlitt. Rev. of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. (Kemble et al.). The Examiner 11 Feb. 1816.
Marker,
Frederick, and Lise-Lone Marker. "II.ii. Actors and their Repertory."
In The Revels History of Drama in
English, volume VI: 1750-1880. By Michael R. Booth et al. London: Methuen,
1975. 95-144.* (Garrick, Kemble, etc.).
Marshall,
Gail. ed. Great Shakespeareans, Volume
VII: Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman. (Great Shakespeareans, set
II). London: Bloomsbury, 2011.*
Trussler,
Simon. "13. From Manners to Melodrama 1776-1814." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 194-211.* (The Sheridan
phenomenon. From mannered comedy to political spectacle. Enlargement of the
patent houses. Minor theatres and the origins of melodrama. Naval drama,
topical and gothic spectacle. Underclass as audience. Tableaux vivants. The
'compilation bill'. Philip Astley and Joe Grimaldi. The 'Kemble religion'. The
point of 'points'. Significance of the OP Riots. Kean: the Anarchy of the
Passion).
Internet
resources
"Charles
Kemble." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kemble
2012
Will
Kempe
Kempe,
Will. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed
in a Morrice from London to Norwich. 1600.
_____. Nine Daies Wonder. In Henry Chettle, Kind-Hartes Dreame. Ed. G. B. Harrison.
[With] William Kemp, Nine Daies Wonder (1600). (Bodley Head Quarto 12). Bodley Head, 1923.
García
Landa, José Ángel. "A Battle of Wills." Rev. of James Shapiro, 1599: A Year in the Life of William
Shakespare. In García Landa, Vanity
Fea 3 Jan. 2009.*
http://garciala.blogia.com/2009/010301-a-battle-of-wills.php
2009
Edward
Kynaston (1640-1712)
Restoration
actor, began performing women's roles.
"Edward
Kynaston." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kynaston
2012
Films
Stage Beauty. Dir. Richard Eyre. Written by Jeffrey Hatcher,
based on his play Compleat Female Stage
Beauty. Cast: Billy Crudup (Ned Kynaston), Claire Danes (Maria Hughes),
Rupert Everett (King Charles II), Hugh Bonneville (Samuel Pepys), Richard
Griffiths (Sir Charles Sedley), Edward Fox (Sir Edward Hyde), Tom Hollander
(Sir Peter Lely), Zoë Tapper (Nell Gwynn). Music by George Fenton.
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn. Ed. Tariq Anwar. Prod. Des. Jim Clay. Art dir.
Keith Slote, Jan Spoczynski. Set Decoration by Caroline Smith. Costume design
by Tim Hatley. Exec. Prod. Rachel Cohen,
Richard Eyre, Michael Kuhn, Amir Malin, James D. Stern. Coprod. Michael Dreyer.
Prod. Robert de Niro, Hardy Justice, Jane Rosenthal. Lions Gate Films / Qwerty
Films, Tribeca Productions / N1 European Film Produktions / BBC Films, 2004.*
(Spanish title: Belleza prohibida).
Literature
Hatcher, Jeffrey. Complete Female Stage Beauty. Drama.
Marie
Lloyd
Eliot, T.
S. "Marie Lloyd." In Eliot, Selected
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1951. 456-9.*
Brian Logan
Cartoon de Salvo. Theatrical
company, founded by actors Brian Logan and Alex Murdoch, 1997.
Michael Loughnan
Video
Thomas, David, et al. William Blake. Documentary. Ed. and presented by Melvyn Bragg. With
Michael Loughnan, Peter Ackroyd. BBC, 1995. YouTube
(Manufacturing Intellet) 11 July 2018.*
https://youtu.be/wDAIzERYzcY
2021
William
Charles Macready (1793-1873)
Criticism
Dickens, Charles. "Macready en el papel de Benedick." From Contributions to The Examiner. In Dickens, Obras completas XII. Madrid: Santillana-Aguilar, 2005. 782-85.*
Downer,
Alan S. The Eminent Tragedian William
Charles Macready. Cambridge (MA), 1966.
Marston,
Westland. "Macready as Benedick." 1888. In Shakespeare: Much Ado about
Nothing and As You Like It. Ed.
John Russell Brown. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 221.*
Trussler,
Simon. "14. The End of the Monopoly 1814-1843." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 212-26.* (The theatre and
political reform. Neighbourhood playhouses. Competition in the West End. The
decline of the patent theatres. Innovations in theatre design. Style in comedy.
Coming of the critics. Kinds of melodrama. Extravaganzas, burlesques,
burlettas, and prehistory of the music hall. The Theatres Act—and the Riot Act.
The Eminent Mr Macready).
Anthologies
Schoch,
Richard, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Vol.
VI: Macready, Booth, Irving, Terry. (Great Shakespeareans, set II). London:
Bloomsbury, 2011.*
Lillah
McCarthy
Internet
resources
"Lillah
McCarthy." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillah_McCarthy
2015
Jack
McGowran
McGowran, Jack. Beginning to End. One-man
TV show, BBC, 1965.
Lillah McCarthy (1875-1960)
(Actress and manager, married and divorced Harley Granville Barker)
Twelfth Night.
With Lillah McCarthy as Viola. Staged by Granville Barker at the Savoy, 1912.
Donald
McGill
Orwell,
George. "The Art of Donald McGill." 1941. A Collection of Essays. New York: Harcourt, 1953?* 104-16.
(Humorist artist).
_____. "The Art of Donald
McGill." In The Collected Essays,
Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell. Ed. S. Orwell and I. Angus. New
York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968. 2.155-65.
Sir
Ian McKellen
McKellen,
Ian, and Richard Loncraine. Richard III:
A Screenplay. http://www.mckellen.com/cinema/richard/screenplay/
Video
A Performance of Macbeth, by William
Shakespeare. TV
prod. Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Trevor Nunn. Cast: Ian McKellen, Judi
Dench, John Woodvine and Bob Peck. YouTube
(John Baxter) 17 Oct. 2019.*
https://youtu.be/7skhaOegpLA
2020
McKellen,
Ian. "All Macbeth Soliloquies." Video. From A Performance of Macbeth, 1978. YouTube ()
https://youtu.be/FGYIJanZ6mc
2019
Adah
Isaacs Menken
(US actress, feminist, late 19th, worked in England)
Criticism
Dickson,
Samuel. "Adah Isaacs Menken." Virtual
Museum of the City of San Francisco.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/adah.html
2012
Marías, Javier. Literatura y fantasma. Madrid: Siruela, 1993.*
Helen Mirren
Fenwick, Henry. "Mirren's Imogen." Radio Times 9-15 July 1983: 4.
Morano
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. "El actor
Morano." In Las máscaras. Essays on drama. 4th ed. In Obras selectas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala.
Barcelona: AHR, 1957. 1320-30.*
José Luis Moreno
Spanish humourist,
puppeteer and racketeer.
Works
Egea,
Alfonso, and Luis Miguel Montero. "Los papeles
de Moreno prueban estafas a bancos usando las empresas que él mismo
gestionaba." OK Diario 5 Feb.
2022.* (José Luis Moreno).
https://okdiario.com/investigacion/papeles-moreno-prueban-estafas-bancos-usando-empresas-que-mismo-gestionaba-8526330
2022
Alex Murdoch
Cartoon de Salvo. Theatrical company,
founded by actors Brian Logan and Alex Murdoch, 1997.
Trevor Nunn.
See Film
directors.
Seyi Omooba
BBC News. "Seyi Omooba: Actress Sacked Over
Anti-Gay Post Loses Legal Fight." BBC
News 17 Feb. 2020.*
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56089759
2021
Ángel Pavlovsky
Works
Amorós,
Andrés. "Pavlovsky, artista." In Amorós, Diario cultural. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1983. 207-10.*
David
Payne
Payne,
David. C. S. Lewis: My Life's Journey.
Dramatic monologue. YouTube (University
of California TV) 24 April 2008.*
https://youtu.be/96uT-BvRi-k
2018
José Luis Pellicena
Vidal, César. "Adiós a José Luis
Pellicena." With
an audio interview. La Voz 26 Nov.
2018.*
https://cesarvidal.com/blog/actualidad/adios-jose-luis-pellicena
2018
Francisco Piquer
Films
Miller, Arthur. Las Brujas de Salem. Dir. Pedro Amalio López. Cast: Francisco
Piquer, Irene Gutiérrez Caba, Gemma Cuervo, Vicente Soler, Antonio Ferrandis,
Tina Sainz, Lola Gaos, Pastor Serrador. Broadcast TVE (Estudio 1). YouTube (Ampareichon) 10 April 2014.*
https://youtu.be/_uiO3YRVerU
2015
Shakespeare, William. "La tragedia de Macbeth."
(Estudio 1). Shakespeare's drama filmed for TV. Prod. TVE. With Francisco Piquer, José María Escuer,
Margarita Esteban, Carola F. Gómez, Julia Lorente, Vicente Vega, Julio Núñez,
José Sepúlveda, Irege Gutiérrez Caba, Tomás Blanco, Julio Navarro, Eduardo
Moreno, Víctor Fuentes, Ricardo Merino, Rosario G. Ortega, Pilar Bienert, Félix
Dafauce, Ramón Reparaz, José Luis Lespe. YouTube
(Ampareichon1) 8 April 2013.*
https://youtu.be/sX7SnFXbw7o
2015
Joan
Plowright
(British actress, m. Laurence Olivier)
Christopher
Plummer
Gates, David. "He's Every Inch a
King." Newsweek 22 March 2004.
63. (Christopher Plummer as King Lear).
Poel
Trussler,
Simon. "17. Romance and Realism 1891-1914." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 260-77.* (From Victorian
to Edwardian. The social and the intelelctual divide. The actor-managers and
the vogue for romance. Actresses, the 'woman question', and the suffragette
drama. The problem play and the nature of naturalism. The play-producing
societies and the Vedrenne-Baker partnership. Playwrights and popularity. The
self-fashioning of Bernard Shaw. Censorship, training, and organization. The
repertory movement and the Irish renaissance. Approaches to Shakespeare: Tree,
Benson, Poel, Barker—and Craig. Musical comedy and revue. Music hall and the
arrival of cinema. From Burlesque to Revue).
Madeleine
Renaud
Renaud,
Madeleine. "Beckett the Magnificant". In Calder, Beckett at 60 81-83.*
_____.
"Laisser parler Beckett ou le sac de Winnie". In Chabert 171-174.*
Journals
Cahiers
Renaud-Barrault 44
(Oct. 1963).
Ralph
Richardson
Audio
Shakespeare. Richard
III by William Shakespeare. Adapt. for radio drama. Cast: Laurence Olivier,
Ralph Richardson, et al. Old Vic Theatre Company / CBS Columbia Workshop, 1946.
Audio. YouTube (Roman Styran) 6 June
2015.*
https://youtu.be/T-41gSAaj_w
2020
Sheridan, R. B. The School for Scandal. Audio. Dir. John Gielgud. John Gielgud
(Joseph Surface), Ralph Richardson (Sir Peter Teazle), Geraldine McEwan (Lady
Teazle), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Mrs. Candour), Meriel Forbes, Laurence
Naismith, Malcolm Keen, Richard Easton. Album, 1963. YouTube (Roman Styeran Audio Recording Collection) 3 July 2015.*
https://youtu.be/EmqWX0jPFo4
2015
Adelaide
Ristori (b. Italy, 1821)
Ristori,
Adelaide. Studies and Memoirs. Allen,
1888.
Criticism
Wilde,
Oscar. "Literary and Other Notes III." The Woman's World (Jan. 1888). (Madame Ristori, Elizabeth Rachel
Chapman, Lady Augusta Noel, Alice Corkan, Emily Pfeiffer, Robert Ellice Mack,
Frederic E. Weatherly, Ernest Wilson and St Clair Simons, Dora Havers, Oliver
Goldsmith).
_____.
"Literary and Other Notes III." In Wilde, Selected Journalism. Ed. Anya Clayworth. (Oxford World's Classics).
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 107-19.*
Joan
Rivers
Rivers,
Joan. The Life and Hard Times of Heidi
Abromowitz. Fiction. c. 1984.
Internet
resources
"Joan
Rivers." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Rivers
2017
Paul
Robeson (1898-1976)
(Black American actor and singer, political
activist, supported Communism)
Duberman,
Martin. Paul Robeson. New York:
Knopf, 1989.
Schloseer,
A. I. "Paul Robeson, His Career in the Theatre, in Motion Pictures, and on
the Concert Stage." Ph.D. diss. New York U, 1970.
Sharon Huff Robinson
Works
Shakespeare.
Richard III - Actors Ensemble of
Berkeley, dir. Sharon Huff Robinson. Video. YouTube
(aeofberkeley) 1 May 2014.*
https://youtu.be/BJCX9v_Ai5U
2020
Roscius
(Quintus Roscius Gallus, Roman comic actor. d.
62 BC).
W.
G. Ross (d.
1876)
(Scottish actor, b. Glasgow, music-hall performer)
Ross, W. G.
"Sam Hall." Song. (On an execution).
Enrique
San Francisco
Video
Negre, Javier. "¿Qué piensan Bertrand
Ndongo de VOX y Quiqu San Francisco de lo que ocurre en EE.UU. (Black Lives
Matter riots)." Video. YouTube
(Estado de Alarma) 7 June 2020.*
https://youtu.be/3ktAJspkmmQ
2020
Rosa
María Sardá
(Spanish actress, d. 2020)
Fiona
Shaw
Shaw,
Fiona. Foreword to Shakespeare's Sonnets.
By William Shakespere. Ed. Eric Rasmussen and Jonathan Bate. (The RSC Shakespeare). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Goodman,
Lizbeth. "Women's Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to
Shakespeare in Contemporary British Theatre." In Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of
Shakespeare. Ed. Marianne Novy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. 202-26.
(Fiona Shaw, Tilda Swinton).
_____.
"Women's Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to Shakespeare
in Contemporary British Theatre." In Shakespeare,
Feminism, and Gender: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Kate Chedgzoy. (New
Casebooks). Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001. 70-92.*
Robert Stephens
Films
Julius Caesar. Cast:
Robert Stephens, Edward Woodward, Maurice Denham, Frank Finlay. (Play of the
Month). BBC, April 13, 1969. Online at YouTube
(Corkon Lukd) 28 Nov. 2015.*
https://youtu.be/9MQmfX3xuuI
2019
Tilda
Swinton
Goodman,
Lizbeth. "Subverting Images of the Female: An Interview with Tilda
Swinton." New Theatre Quarterly
6 (Aug. 1990).
_____."Women's
Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to Shakespeare in
Contemporary British Theatre."In Cross-Cultural
Peformances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare. Ed. Marianne
Novy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. 202-26. (Fiona Shaw, Tilda Swinton,
Monstrous Regiment, RSC's Women's Project, Women's Theatre Group).
_____.
"Women's Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to Shakespeare
in Contemporary British Theatre." In Shakespeare,
Feminism, and Gender: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Kate Chedgzoy. (New
Casebooks). Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001. 70-92.*
Richard
Tarlton
Tarlton,
Richard. Tarlton's Jests. 1600.
_____. Tarlton's Jests. Shakespeare Society,
1844.
Literature
Goodfellow,
Robin (Ps.). Tarltons Newes out of
Purgatorie. c. 1590.
Ellen Ternan
Tomalin,
Claire. The Invisible Woman: The History
of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
Ellen Terry
Terry,
Ellen. Four Lectures on Shakespeare.
_____. Ellen Terry's Memoirs. 1933.
Auerbach,
Nina. Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time.
Stokes, John, Michael R. Booth and Susan Bassnett. Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: The Actress in her Time. 1988.
Wedmore,
Frederick. "Irving as Benedick and Ellen Terry as Beatrice." 1882. In
Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and As
You Like It. Ed. John Russell Brown. (Casebooks series).
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 222.*
Anthologies
Schoch,
Richard, ed. Great Shakespeareans, Vol.
VI: Macready, Booth, Irving, Terry. (Great Shakespeareans, set II). London:
Bloomsbury, 2011.*
Literature
Wilde,
Oscar. "Written at the Lyceum Theatre. (I.
Portia. II. Queen Henrietta Maria)." In Wilde, The Complete Works. London: CWR Publishing, 2006. 280.* (To Ellen
Terry).
_____.
"Portia." Sonnet. (To Ellen Terry). In The Portable Oscar Wilde. Ed. Richard Aldington and Stanley
Weintraub. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. 666.*
_____.
"Portia." In The Complete
Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wilde. London: Chancellor
Press, 1986. 768.*
_____. "Portia."
Poem. The World (January 1880).
_____. "Portia." In The Works of Oscar Wilde. Ed. G. F.
Maine. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1938. 1957. 766.*
_____.
"Portia." In Wilde, De
Profundis and Other Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. 222.*
La
Veneno
Video
Parejo, Isaac. "La Veneno hoy sería
de Vox." Video. YouTube
(Infovlogger) 5 March 2023.*
https://youtu.be/G1Dcykw9FpQ
2023
Alberto Trifol Verdú
Biography
Royuela, Santiago. "El
actor Alberto Trifol Verdú fue mandado asesinar por el Fiscal Mena
Álvarez." Video. YouTube
(Santiago Royuela Samit) 25 Dec. 2020.*
https://youtu.be/sfOr9F_-qms
2020
Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917)
(British actor and director,
manager of the Haymarket from 1887, then built Her Majesty's Theatre, his base
1897-1915)
Works: Writings
Tree,
Beerbohm. Thoughts and Afterthoughts. London,
1915.
Works: Films
Tree,
Herbert Beerbohm (theatrical dir.). King
John. Promotional performance starring Beerbohm Tree. 1898.
_____. Henry VIII. Film. With Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree. 1911.
Works: Theatre
Shakespeare.
Much Ado about Nothing. Staged by
Beerbohm Tree.
_____. Henry
IV Part I. Staged by Beerbohm Tree, 1896.
_____. Julius Caesar. Staged by Beerbohm Tre.
1911.
Shaw. Pygmalion. Staged by Beerbohm Tree,
1914.
Trilby. Staged by Beerbohm Tree. Based on the novel by
George du Maurier. 1895.
Criticism
"Advertisement"
of Henry VIII, with Sir Herbert Tree (film). Bioscope
2 March 1911: 21.
Beerbohm,
Max, ed. Herbert Beerbohm Tree. 1920.
Strachey,
Lytton. "The Sicilians." In Strachey, Spectatorial Essays. London: Chatto, 1964.* (Beerbohm Tree).
Trussler,
Simon. "17. Romance and Realism 1891-1914." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 260-77.* (From Victorian
to Edwardian. The social and the intelelctual divide. The actor-managers and
the vogue for romance. Actresses, the 'woman question', and the suffragette
drama. The problem play and the nature of naturalism. The play-producing
societies and the Vedrenne-Baker partnership. Playwrights and popularity. The
self-fashioning of Bernard Shaw. Censorship, training, and organization. The
repertory movement and the Irish renaissance. Approaches to Shakespeare: Tree,
Benson, Poel, Barker—and Craig. Musical comedy and revue. Music hall and the
arrival of cinema. From Burlesque to Revue).
Tom
Tylor
Trussler,
Simon. "15. Towards a Respectable Theatre 1843-1871." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 228-45.* (Class, cash,
and theatre. The growth of the music hall. From stock to touring. The railway
age. Effects of the long run. The quest for respectability. Boucicault and Tom
Tylor. Vintage years of farce. West End and neighbourhood theatre. Phelps at
Sadler's Wells. The quest of 'archaeological' accuracy. Cups and Saucers
Realism at the Prince of Wales).
Vitalis (fl. c. 900)
García Landa, José Angel. "An
Actor's Epitaph." In García Landa, Vanity
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2012
Lewis
Waller (1860-1915)
(British actor, famous for
playing Dumas' The Three Musketeers and
Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire)
Internet
resources
"Lewis
Waller." (Actor). Wikipedia: The
Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller
2012
Frederick
B. Warde
(British actor, b. 1851, w. in USA)
Works
Keane,
James, dir. The Life and Death of Richard
III. With Frederick B. Warde. Prod. M. B. Dudley. USA, 1912. (First
surviving American feature film. Rediscovered 1996).
Warde,
Ernest, dir. King Lear. Filmed
performance. Cast: Frederick B. Warde, Lorraine Huling, Ernest Warde, Ina
Hammer, Wayne Arey, Edith Diestal, Charles Brookes. Prod. Edwin Thanhouser.
b/w, 43 m. USA, 1916.
Criticism
Woods,
Alan. "Frederick B. Warde: America's Greatest Forgotten Tragedian." Educational Theatre Journal 29 (Oct.
1977): 333-44.
Billie
Whitelaw (1932-2014)
(Billie Honor Whitelaw, collaborated with Samuel Beckett for 25 years)
Video
Samuel Beckett. Ευτυχισμένες Μέρες. (HAPPY DAYS, Billie Whitelaw, Greek dubbing). YouTube 29 Jan. 2015.
https://youtu.be/FhSl4EjU2O4
2020
Whitman
sisters
(4 black
women, US touring company 1899-1942)
Works
George-Graves,
Nadine. The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville:
The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in
African-American Theater 1900-1940. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Nicol
Williamson
Criticism
Alvarez, A.
"Williamson: I Hate Intellectual Actors." New York Times 27 April 1969: 1D.
Greenspun,
Roger. "Williamson as Hamlet: Richardson Film Based on Debated
Version." New York Times 22 Dec.
1969: 143.
Wilson
Rimbault,
E. F. Who Was Jack Wilson? 1846.
Margaret ("Peg")
Woffington
(Irish-born Georgian
actress, lover of David Garrick and several aristocrats and gentlemen,
collapsed from a stroke onstage)
Reade,
Charles. Peg Woffington. Novel. 1853.
New York: Dodd, 1897.
Reade,
Charles, and Tom Taylor. Masks and Faces.
1852. (Play on Peg Woffington).
Internet
resources
"Peg
Woffington." Wikipedia: The Free
Encyclopedia.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Woffington
2017
Joanne Woodward
Films
"Broadway's Dreamers: The
Legacy of the Group Theatre." With Joanne Woodward et al. (PBS American
Masters, season 3, episode 8, 26 June 1989). Online at YouTube (Arbiter) 6 March 2017.* (Stanislavki's Method acting).
https://youtu.be/VGAqGU-uv3A
2017
Margarida Xirgu
Balcells,
José María. "Cartas inéditas de Margarita Xirgu
sobre Benavente." Universitas
Tarraconensis 10 (1986): 39-48.