Reminiscences of a dramatic critic
Subtitle: with an essay on the art of Henry Irving
By: by Henry Austin Clapp.
Contributors: Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905; Theater -- United States; Actors; Acting
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: By way of introduction; title: Spectacle, farce, melodrama, and minstrelsy fifty years ago; title: The worth and impotence of free criticism; title: Some early experiences and mistakes; title: Selwyn's theatre and the Robertson period; title: The ephemeral drama and the enduring drama; title: The great dramatic quinquennium and the Boston Museum; title: William Warren, comedian; title: Actual and ideal training for the stage; title: J.L. Toole and Charles James Mathews; title: Charlotte Cushman; title: E.A. Sothersn, Sr; title: The isolation of actors; title: Charles Fechter; title: Edwin Booth; title: Tommaso Salvini; title: Adelaide Neilson; title: Memorable experiences of single plays and artists; title: An American theatre privately endowed; title: Henry Irving.