Author: Jonathan Croall
Publisher: Haus Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
'I would rather have been a pianist than anything,' Sybil Thorndike said late in her life, but posterity would never know her as anything other than a majestic actress of stage and screen, whether alongside Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, or, most famously, as Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. In this authorized biography, written with unique access to the Thorndike family archive and using hundreds of her unpublished letters, Jonathan Croall has written an engaging, sympathetic, yet critical account of one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. As a young actress, Thorndike spent three years traveling around America, playing over a hundred Shakespearean parts.
Sybil Thorndike
Author: Jonathan Croall
Publisher: Haus Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
'I would rather have been a pianist than anything,' Sybil Thorndike said late in her life, but posterity would never know her as anything other than a majestic actress of stage and screen, whether alongside Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, or, most famously, as Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. In this authorized biography, written with unique access to the Thorndike family archive and using hundreds of her unpublished letters, Jonathan Croall has written an engaging, sympathetic, yet critical account of one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. As a young actress, Thorndike spent three years traveling around America, playing over a hundred Shakespearean parts.
Publisher: Haus Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
'I would rather have been a pianist than anything,' Sybil Thorndike said late in her life, but posterity would never know her as anything other than a majestic actress of stage and screen, whether alongside Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, or, most famously, as Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. In this authorized biography, written with unique access to the Thorndike family archive and using hundreds of her unpublished letters, Jonathan Croall has written an engaging, sympathetic, yet critical account of one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. As a young actress, Thorndike spent three years traveling around America, playing over a hundred Shakespearean parts.
The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy
Author: Billy J. Harbin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068586
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068586
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Sybil Thorndike
Author: Sheridan Morley
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Doctor Syn
Author: R. Thorndike
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871845770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871845770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Great Shakespeare Actors
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198703295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198703295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage.
The Story of Shaw's Saint Joan
Author: Brian Tyson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773585133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The literary genetics of Shaw's most famous play are here examined for the first time. The sources of Saint Joan are closely compared with the original shorthand manuscript and that is compared with its subsequent revisions. This evidence is supplemented by facts drawn from Shaw's correspondence in print, in the British Library, and in private collections, and by accounts both in print and in the correspondence of people who knew Shaw at the time of his writing Saint Joan. The manuscript and its revisions are examined in the light of all that has been written about the play since it first appeared in 1923. Tyson examines the events that led Shaw to write Saint Joan, establishes the times and places of its composition, and speculates on the "models" upon which Shaw may have based his heroine. The scene-by-scene investigation of the original manuscript accounts as far as possible for later alterations and revisions and discusses passages of critical or historical interest. The concluding chapters survey the circumstances surrounding the first production of the play in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany and reflect on the impact that Saint Joan has had on drama for more than half a century.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773585133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The literary genetics of Shaw's most famous play are here examined for the first time. The sources of Saint Joan are closely compared with the original shorthand manuscript and that is compared with its subsequent revisions. This evidence is supplemented by facts drawn from Shaw's correspondence in print, in the British Library, and in private collections, and by accounts both in print and in the correspondence of people who knew Shaw at the time of his writing Saint Joan. The manuscript and its revisions are examined in the light of all that has been written about the play since it first appeared in 1923. Tyson examines the events that led Shaw to write Saint Joan, establishes the times and places of its composition, and speculates on the "models" upon which Shaw may have based his heroine. The scene-by-scene investigation of the original manuscript accounts as far as possible for later alterations and revisions and discusses passages of critical or historical interest. The concluding chapters survey the circumstances surrounding the first production of the play in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany and reflect on the impact that Saint Joan has had on drama for more than half a century.
The Sketch
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Slype
Author: Russell Thorndike
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939140647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Slype is a dark passage, reputedly haunted, adjoining the ancient cathedral of Dullchester, and it plays a central role in this thrilling mystery. As the story opens, this sleepy cathedral city has a sinister visitor whose ominous pastime consists of cutting paper silhouettes depicting a corpse hanging from a gibbet. After his arrival, a series of terrifying events ensues: ghostly screams are heard to emanate from the Slype, and the town's residents begin disappearing one by one, inexplicably and without a trace. Young Daniel Dyke, Sergeant Wurren, and Inspector Macauley of Scotland Yard will have to join forces to unravel this deadly mystery and uncover a centuries-old secret ... before it's too late!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939140647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Slype is a dark passage, reputedly haunted, adjoining the ancient cathedral of Dullchester, and it plays a central role in this thrilling mystery. As the story opens, this sleepy cathedral city has a sinister visitor whose ominous pastime consists of cutting paper silhouettes depicting a corpse hanging from a gibbet. After his arrival, a series of terrifying events ensues: ghostly screams are heard to emanate from the Slype, and the town's residents begin disappearing one by one, inexplicably and without a trace. Young Daniel Dyke, Sergeant Wurren, and Inspector Macauley of Scotland Yard will have to join forces to unravel this deadly mystery and uncover a centuries-old secret ... before it's too late!
S.A. Pictorical
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
An Almanack...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description