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  • Thumbnail for Edmund Kean
    Edmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec...
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  • based on the life of the actor Edmund Kean, and its adaptations: Kean (1921 film), a German silent historical film Kean (1924 film), a silent film directed...
    1 KB (185 words) - 23:48, 10 December 2019
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    revivals of Shakespearean plays. Kean was born at Waterford, Ireland, a son of actor Edmund Kean and actress Mary Kean (nee Chambers). After preparatory...
    6 KB (711 words) - 03:48, 19 September 2024
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    Kean, ou Désordre et génie (also known as Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers) is a 1924 French drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff, and starring Ivan...
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    King Lear (redirect from Edmund Gloucester)
    Bloom states: "Tate's version held the stage for almost 150 years, until Edmund Kean reinstated the play's tragic ending in 1823." Holinshed states that the...
    115 KB (13,853 words) - 12:35, 3 October 2024
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    text in a very successful production at Drury Lane, paving the way for Edmund Kean seventy years later (see below). Arthur Sullivan wrote incidental music...
    61 KB (7,390 words) - 15:55, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ben Kingsley on screen and stage
    in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971). He portrayed the title role in Edmund Kean (1983) on both the West End at the Aldwych Theatre and on Broadway at...
    32 KB (1,022 words) - 16:26, 18 September 2024
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    Actor of the Year in a New Play for his role as Edmund Kean in the Raymund Fitzsimons one character play Kean (1983) on the West End. Kingsley reprised the...
    36 KB (1,359 words) - 21:03, 27 June 2024
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    returned to Broadway playing the title role in the Raymond Fitzsimmons play Edmund Kean (1983). He played Willy Loman in a 1982 Sydney production of the Arthur...
    49 KB (4,834 words) - 20:18, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for The History of King Lear
    Tate's Lear, not Shakespeare's. The tragic ending was briefly restored by Edmund Kean in 1823. In 1838, William Charles Macready purged the text entirely of...
    33 KB (4,735 words) - 09:03, 27 September 2024
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    (1939) as Simmia Bridge of Glass (1940) as comandante Mario Marchi Kean (1940) as Edmund Kean Ritorno (1940) as Michele Donato, alias Mac Dynar La fuerza bruta...
    14 KB (1,594 words) - 14:03, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harriet Smithson
    several productions with famous actors such as William Charles Macready, Edmund Kean, and Charles Kemble. Smithson became famous for her natural presentation...
    19 KB (2,222 words) - 03:04, 6 July 2024
  • Kean, ou Désordre et génie is an 1836 play by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It is based on the life of the British stage actor Edmund Kean. It premiered...
    1 KB (136 words) - 10:36, 2 January 2024
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    with Edmund Kean. Previously the role had been played "by a comedian as a repulsive clown or, alternatively, as a monster of unrelieved evil". Kean's Shylock...
    25 KB (3,253 words) - 05:59, 30 September 2024
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    London actors—including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble. Of these, Booth remained...
    148 KB (17,686 words) - 03:49, 28 September 2024
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    initiating the romantic style in acting that was later made famous by Edmund Kean. Although he claimed to have been born in Westminster, it seems likely...
    12 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 20 September 2024
  • dramatization of the life of nineteenth century actor Edmund Kean, it is based on the drama play Kean (1836) by Alexandre Dumas and its 1953 adaptation with...
    4 KB (316 words) - 19:24, 7 May 2024
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    opened in 1812. It has been the residency of well known actors including Edmund Kean, comedian Dan Leno and the musical composer and performer Ivor Novello...
    74 KB (8,640 words) - 06:51, 8 September 2024
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    Drury Lane in London on 3 December 1818. The original cast included Edmund Kean as Brutus, David Fisher as Titus, Henry Kemble as Sextus Tarquin, Charles...
    3 KB (191 words) - 12:57, 4 August 2024
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    the Shakespearean actors William Macready, Edmund Kean and his son Charles. On 25 March 1833 Edmund Kean collapsed on stage while playing Othello, and...
    46 KB (5,002 words) - 18:53, 20 September 2024
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