Max Beerbohm

Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, nado o 24 de agosto de 1872 e finado o 20 de maio de 1956, foi un caricaturista e escritor inglés.

 Traxectoria 
Naceu en Londres, o medio irmán máis novo do actor e produtor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, educouse en Charterhouse School e na Universidade de Oxford, onde foi secretario do Myrmidon Club. En Oxford formou parte do grupo de Oscar Wilde.

O seu primeiro escrito, Defence of Cosmetics publicouse na revista literaria Yellow Book. Colaborou como crítico literario do Saturday Review desde 1898 ata 1910. O seu primeiro libro, The Works of Max Beerbohm  publicouse en 1896.  A súa primeira colección de caricaturas tamén data de 1896 Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. En 1897 escribiu a fábula The Happy Hypocrite e Zuleika Dobson, a súa única novela, data de 1911. O seu anecdotario Seven Men (1919) considérase unha obra mestra do xénero . A partir de 1935 apareceu ocasionalmente na radio.

 Obra 

The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane (1896)
More (1899)
Yet Again (1909)
Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911)
A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912)
Seven Men (1919)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art (1920, ed. de Max Beerbohm)
And Even Now (1920)
A Peep into the Past (1923)
Around Theatres (1924)
A Variety of Things (1928)
The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill (1928)
Lytton Strachey (1943) Rede Lecture 
Mainly on the Air (1946; enlarged edition 1957)
The Incomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm" (1962)Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies (1963, ed. de J. G. Riewald)Letters to Reggie Turner (1964, ed. de Rupert Hart-Davis)More Theatres, 1898–1903 (1969, ed. de Rupert Hart-Davis)Selected Prose (1970, ed. by Lord David Cecil)Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters (1975, ed. de Mary M. Lago e Karl Beckson)Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892–1956 (1988, ed. de Rupert Hart-Davis)Last Theatres (1970, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces (1972)Max Beerbohm and "The Mirror of the Past" (1982, ed. Lawrence Danson)

 Coleccións de caricaturas 

 Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (1896)I
 The Poets' Corner (1904)
 A Book of Caricatures (1907)
 Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull (1911)
 Fifty Caricatures (1913)
 A Survey (1921)
 Rossetti and His Circle (1922)
 Things New and Old (1923)
 Observations (1925)
 Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet (1931)
 Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892–1899 (1958, ed. Rupert Hart-Davies e Allan Wade)
 Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley (1977, ed. J. G. Riewald)
 Max Beerbohm Caricatures (1997, ed. N. John Hall)
 Enoch Soames: A Critical Heritage'' (1997)

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Categoría:Nados en 1872
Categoría:Finados en 1956
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