Edmund Kean

Edmund Kean, Sir Giles Overreach rolünde; Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1816

Edmund Kean (4 Kasım 1787 – 15 Mayıs 1833) İngiliz aktör idi. Kendi zamanının en iyilerinden biri olarak kabul edilmektedir.

Biyografisi

Kean, Westminster Londra'da doğdu. Babası Edmund Kean bir mimar katibi idi. Annesi Anne Carey ise bir aktris idi ve 18. yy bestecisi ve oyun yazarı olan Henry Carey'in kızıydı.

Kaynaklar

• Francis Phippen, Authentic memoirs of Edmund Kean, containing a specimen of his talent at composition (London, 1814)
• B. W. Procter, The Life of E. K. (London, 1835)
• Frederick William Hawkins, The life of Edmund Kean (Tinsley Brothers, London, 1869)
• George Henry Lewes, On Actors and the Art of Acting (Smith Elder, London, 1875)
• Henry Barton Baker Our Old Actors, (R. Bentley & Son, London, 1881)
• Edwin Booth, "Edmund Kean," in Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States from the days of David Garrick to the present time, edited by Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton, volume iii (Cassell & Co., New York, 1886)
• Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy, The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian, 1787-1833 (Downey & Co. Limited, London, 1897)
• Edward Stirling, Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager (Chatto and Windus, London, 1887).
• Lynch, Jack (2007). Becoming Shakespeare: The Strange Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard. New York: Walker & Co.
• * Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb: Edmund Kean, New York, Columbia University Press, 1933

Dış bağlantılar

• Richard Henry Dana on Edmund Kean's Acting, report by Carol McCluer of an Aesthetic Realism lecture by Eli Siegel