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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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    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 (13,907 words) - 00:53, 14 November 2024
  • Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) 1787 – Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean stage actor (d. 1833) 1809 – Benjamin Robbins...
    45 KB (4,539 words) - 23:33, 14 November 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) - 16:45, 14 November 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) - 21:41, 30 October 2024
  • 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...
    15 KB (1,256 words) - 21:35, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of awards and nominations received by Ben Kingsley
    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
  • Alexandre Dumas, père as its source, it centers on the adventures of Edmund Kean, considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of the early 19th century...
    3 KB (188 words) - 18:09, 5 November 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 (2,236 words) - 22:31, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kean (1924 film)
    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...
    2 KB (108 words) - 10:26, 23 September 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 (3,244 words) - 06:26, 20 October 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 (17,756 words) - 20:17, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ben Kingsley
    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 (4,839 words) - 23:23, 15 November 2024
  • (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...
    3 KB (469 words) - 10:50, 13 July 2023
  • 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 (4,739 words) - 09:10, 30 October 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
  • Thumbnail for Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
    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) - 11:46, 11 November 2024
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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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