Shakespeare's Victorian Stage
Subtitle: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521034364
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Theatre, drama; c 1800 to c 1900; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Shakespeare; Theater - History & Criticism; Drama / Shakespeare; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts-Theater - History & Criticism; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616--Stage hist; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Great Britain; Theater - General
First sentence: Like the sons of the Seven against Thebes, Charles Kean was born an epigone: the pupil of a fading antiquity, the descendant of a culture whose vigor was already sapped.