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Hamlet and its great actors through the ages in Boston
A survey of Hamlet's staging from Burbage to Fechter and Rossi, tracing how performances shaped the character, with notes on Betterton Garrick Kemble Booth Irving Salvini and others, their costumes, methods, and the impact on Boston audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batteriza
David Garrick
John Phillipa Seembls
Lee Irveng
Bale Monnet
Sally
Lda
Opbella
Homan
Dick Burbage
Hamlet
Viet
Khan Ib
Minit
Denmark
Beenon
Shakespeare
Shakepeare
Betterton
Garrick
J. S. Willard
Mounet-Sully
Stranger Barry
William Smith
Joseph Henderson
Chariss Mayne Yount
Edmund Kean
Young Betty
Kemble
Inter
Mentiow
Samuel Phelps
Barry Sullivan
John McCullough
James B. Murdoch
B. L. Davenport
George Vandenboft
H. Hackett
Lawrence Barratt
John Philip Kemble
George Frederick Cooke
Edmund Keap
Juntos Brutus Booth
Charles Kean
William C. Macready
Edwin Morrest
Win Booth
Henry Irving
Wilson Barratt
Id Ed S. Willard
Dupors
Charles Fechter
Ernesto Rossi
Tomasso Salvini
Magnet Sully
Boston
Alx
Kean
Booth
London
Macready
Porrest
Edinburgh
Forrest Orst
Edwin Youth
Sex
William Winter
the Princess In London
Hamet
Horatio
Claudius
England
Lawrence Barrett
Barrett
Mr. Booth
Trving
Mr. Irving
Ophelia
Irving
Mapleson
Edward R. Russell
Tle Roke
Russell
Wilson Barrett
Charles Fechten
Christ
Wilkie Collins
Fetcher
Gertrude
Rossi
Fachler
Frederick Robinson
la Fechter
Selwyn's
Fechter
Kila
King
Balvinus
Europe
Salvin Hmself
Salvini
Florence
Hoston
Aunet-Sully
Madison Molle
Samnl
Paris
Opnelis
Nouery
Laerter
Aeater Land
Moenet-sally
Kembie Feehier