Representing Shakespearean Tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean

Omtale

Reiko Oya considers Shakespearean tragedy as performed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by David Garrick, John Philip Kemble and his sister Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean. With chapters focusing on King Lear, Hamlet and Macbeth, the book offers insights into the intriguing relations among the London stage luminaries.