Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans: Volume II

by Peter Holland (Editor)

Overview

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. 
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.  Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472538994
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2014
Series:	Great Shakespeareans
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and is Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and the Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Preface - Peter Holland and Adrian Poole
Introduction, Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
David Garrick, Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
John Philip Kemble, Michael Dobson (Birkbeck, UK)
Sarah Siddons, Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths, UK)
Edmund Kean, Peter Thomson (Exeter, UK)
Index