Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean /
Woo, Celestine.
New York ; Oxford : Peter Lang,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Bardolatry and "romantic" actors -- David Garrick: commodifying Shakespeare -- John Philip Kemble: consecrating Shakespeare -- Sarah Siddons: feminizing Shakespeare -- Edmund Kean: ironic icon, transgressive tabula rasa.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833