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    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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    revivals of Shakespearean plays. Kean was born at Waterford, Ireland, a son of actor Edmund Kean and actress Mary Kean (nee Chambers). After preparatory...
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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...
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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...
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  • Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) 1787 – Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean stage actor (d. 1833) 1809 – Benjamin Robbins...
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  • African-American actor at the centre of controversy in 1833 when he takes over from Edmund Kean in Othello at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, premiered in 2012 at...
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    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...
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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...
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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...
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  • Alexandre Dumas, père as its source, it centers on the adventures of Edmund Kean, considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of the early 19th century...
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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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    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...
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    several productions with famous actors such as William Charles Macready, Edmund Kean, and Charles Kemble. Smithson became famous for her natural presentation...
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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...
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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...
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    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...
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  • (1811–1868), actor, son of Edmund Kean Edmund Kean (1789–1833), English actor Edward Kean (1924–2010), American television writer Ellen Kean (1805–1880), English...
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    Alexandre Dumas (redirect from Kean (drama))
    of France: Isabel of Bavaria (1835) Kean (1836), based on the life of the notable late English actor Edmund Kean. Frédérick Lemaître played him in the...
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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...
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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...
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    Wildgruber prize). For the personification of the English Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean in Frank Castorf's production of the same name in 2009, Scheer was voted...
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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...
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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...
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  • George Leslie Hunter, colourist painter Ian Jack, writer, journalist Edmund Kean, Shakespearean actor Maccai, 5th Century Irish Missionary Sir William...
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    private boxes!" until Kemble capitulated to the protestors' demands. Edmund Kean at Drury Lane gave a psychological portrayal of the central character...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    New Theatre on Richmond Greene and opened on 15 June 1765. The actor Edmund Kean was manager of the theatre from 1831 until his death in 1833. Its management...
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    frequently admired the performances of certain actors, particularly Edmund Kean. At first highly acclaimed—it made an immediate and powerful impact on...
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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...
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