The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes (2020)

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This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producersthey all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical lifewhether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirrenthe great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, tooand the unknown. This is a bookpresented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandrethwhere, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.

• Autorzy: Gyles Brandreth
• Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press Academic UK
• Data wydania: 2020
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• Forma publikacji: ePub (online)
• Język publikacji: angielski
• ISBN: 9780191066528

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• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• Prologue
• Act One: Players from William Shakespeare to Henry Irving The actors are at hand and by their show you shall know all’a midsummer night’s dream
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• Richard Burbage (1567–1619)
• Charles Hart (1625–1683) & Joseph Haines (1638–1701)
• Thomas Betterton (?1635–1710)
• Edward Kynaston (?1640–1706)
• Nell Gwynn (1650–1687)
• Elizabeth Knepp (d.1681)
• Beck Marshall (f?l. 1663–1667)
• Elizabeth Boutwell (fl. 1670s, d.1715) & Elizabeth Barry (1658–1713)
• Susannah Mountfort (c.1667–1703) & Anne Bracegirdle (1671–1748)
• Colley Cibber (1671–1757)
• Christiana Horton (?1696–?1756)
• Mary Ann Porter (d.1765)
• Charles Macklin (?1699–1797)
• John Thurmond (c.1700–1754)
• David Garrick (1717–1779)
• Samuel Foote (1719–1788)
• Peg Woffington (1720–1760)
• John Moody (1727–1812)
• George Anne Bellamy (1727–1788)
• Henry Mossop (?1729–?1774)
• James William Dodd (c.1734–1796)
• Thomas Weston (1737–1776)
• William Bensley (1738–1817)
• Tate Wilkinson (1739–1803)
• Mr and Mrs Mattocks (d.1804 and 1746–1826, respectively)
• Sarah Siddons (1755–1831)
• George Frederick Cooke (c.1756–1812)
• John Philip Kemble (1757–1823)
• Joseph Munden (1758–1832)
• Mrs Dorothea (Dora) Jordan (1761–1816)
• Robert Elliston (1774–1831)
• John Liston (?1776–1846)
• Charles Mathews (1776–1835)
• Thomas A. Cooper (1776–1849)
• Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837)
• Richard Jones (1778–1851)
• Fanny Alsop (1782–1821)
• Louisa Brunton (c.1785–1860)
• Edmund Kean (1787–1833)
• William Henry West Betty (1791–1874)
• William Charles Macready (1793–1873)
• Edwin Forrest (1806–1872)
• Ira Aldridge (1807–1867)
• Walter Lacy (1809–1898)
• Charles Kean (1811–1868)
• Mr and Mrs Robert Wyndham (1814–1894 and Unknown, Respectively)
• Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870)
• Rachel (Elisa Felix) (1821–1848)
• Barry Sullivan (1821–1891)
• Joseph Jefferson (1829–1905)
• Laura Keene (c.1830–1873)
• John Coleman (1832–1904)
• Edwin Booth (1833–1893)
• Charles Wyndham (1837–1919)
• Henry Irving (1838–1905)
• Act Two: Players from Sarah Bernhardt to Tallulah BankHead Read the names of the actors, and so grow to a point’a midsummer night’s dream
• Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)
• William Terriss (1847–1897)
• Ellen Terry (1847–1928)
• Madge Kendal (1849–1935)
• Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917)
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937)
• Lily Langtry (1853–1929)
• Richard Mansfield (1854–1907)
• Ludwik Solski (1855–1954)
• Mrs Bernard Beere (1856–1915)
• Edmund Tearle (1856–1913)
• Frank Benson (1858–1939)
• Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)
• Charles Hawtrey (1858–1923)
• C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948)
• Fred Terry (1863–1933)
• Mrs Beerbohm Tree (1863–1937)
• Marie Tempest (1864–1942)
• Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
• Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865–1940)
• May Whitty (1865–1948)
• Seymour Hicks (1871–1949)
• Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966)
• Gerald Du Maurier (1873–1934)
• Bert Williams (1874–1922)
• Lillah McCarthy (1875–1960)
• Ernest Thesiger (1879–1961)
• John Barrymore (1882–1942)
• Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)
• Baliol Holloway (1883–1967)
• Tom Walls (1883–1949)
• Laurette Taylor (1884–1946)
• Godfrey Tearle (1884–1953)
• Gladys Cooper (1888–1971)
• Edith Evans (1888–1976)
• Cathleen Nesbitt (1888–1982)
• Robertson Hare (1891–1979)
• Alfred Lunt (1892–1977) and Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983)
• Henry Baynton (1892–1951)
• Katharine Cornell (1893–1974)
• Cicely Courtneidge (1893–1980)
• Cedric Hardwicke (1893–1964)
• Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
• Beatrice Lillie (1894–1989)
• Anew McMaster (1894–1962)
• Raymond Massey (1896–1983)
• Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964)
• Alfred John (A.J.) Brown (1897–1978)
• Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952)
• Paul Robeson (1898–1976)
• Charles Laughton (1899–1962)
• Micheal MacLiammoir (1899–1978)
• Charles Goldner (1900–1955)
• Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
• Anton Walbrook (1900–1967)
• Mildred Dunnock (1901–1991)
• Maurice Evans (1901–1989)
• Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968)
• Act Three: Players from Ralph Richardson to Naeem Hyat The players cannot keep counsel; they’ll tell all’Hamlet
• Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)
• Flora Robson (1902–1984)
• Donald Wolfit (1902–1968)
• Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903–1991)
• John Gielgud (1904–2000)
• Esmond Knight (1906–1987)
• Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003)
• Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
• Bette Davis (1908–1989)
• Rex Harrison (1908–1990)
• Ethel Merman (1908–1984)
• Michael Redgrave (1908–1985)
• Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–1994)
• David Niven (1910–1983)
• Coral Browne (1913–1991)
• Trevor Howard (1913–1988)
• Vivien Leigh (1913–1967)
• Kenneth More (1914–1982)
• Orson Welles (1915–1985)
• Ingrid Bergman (1917–1982)
• Frankie Howerd (1917–1992)
• Yul Brynner (1920–1985)
• Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999)
• Maria Britneva (1921–1994)
• Frank Thornton (1921–2013)
• Alan Badel (1923-1982)
• Donald Sinden (1923–2014)
• Brian Rix (1924–2016)
• Marlon Brando (1924–2004)
• Richard Burton (1925–1984)
• Trader Faulkner (1927–)
• Fenella Fielding (1927–2018)
• Richard Johnson (1927–2015)
• Sidney Poitier (1927–)
• Michael Bryant (1928–2002)
• Nigel Hawthorne (1929–2001)
• Richard Harris (1930–2002)
• Dorothy Tutin (1931–2001)
• Geraldine McEwan (1932–2015)
• Peter O’Toole (1932–2013)
• James Villiers (1933–1998)
• Eileen Atkins (1934–)
• Richard Briers (1934–2013)
• Judi Dench (1934–)
• Maggie Smith (1934–)
• Albert Finney (1936–2019)
• Peter Bowles (1936–)
• Vanessa Redgrave (1937–)
• Dustin Hoffman (1937–)
• Ian McKellen (1939–)
• William Gaunt (1937–)
• David Weston (1938–)
• Michael Gambon (1940–)
• Martin Jarvis (1941–)
• Michael Crawford (1942–)
• Victor Henry (1943–1985)
• Ian Ogilvy (1943–)
• Isla Blair (1944–)
• Maria Aitken (1945–)
• Francesca Annis (1945–)
• Antony Sher (1949–)
• Simon Callow (1949–)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (1957–)
• Kevin Spacey (1959–)
• Noma Dumezweni (1969–)
• Audra McDonald (1970–)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (1976–)
• Ben Wishaw (1980–)
• Denise Gough (1980–)
• Paapa Essiedu (1990–)
• Naeem Hyat (1990–)
• Interval: Audiences and Critics Pardon us the interruption’Richard III
• Audiences
• Audience Members Overheard
• Critics
• Act Four: Playwrights, Producers, and Directors The play’s the thing’Hamlet
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
• Roger Boyle, First Earl of Orrery (1621–1679)
• John Dryden (1631–1700)
• John Crowne (?1640–?1703)
• William Wycherley (1641–1716)
• Christopher Rich (1657–1714)
• John Rich (?1692–1761)
• Mr King (?fl. 1680S)
• Charles Macklin (?1699–1797)
• James Thomson (1700–1748)
• Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• William Havard (1710–1778)
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
• Fanny Burney (1752–1840)
• Robert Elliston (1774–1831)
• Thomas Harris (d.1820)
• John Baldwin Buckstone (1802–1879)
• John Johnstone (Lester) Wallack (1820–1888)
• Dion Boucicault (1820–1890)
• Henry James Byron (1834–1884)
• Augustin Daly (1838–1899)
• Henry Irving (1838–1905)
• Master Arnott (??fl. 1870)
• Jimmy Allen (??fl. 1890)
• Squire Bancroft (1841–1926)
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937)
• David Belasco (1853–1931)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
• Philip Ben Greet (1857–1936)
• Charles Frohman (1860–1915)
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
• Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966)
• George Cram (Jig’) Cook (1873–1924)
• Lilian Baylis (1874–1937)
• Lewis Casson (1875–1969)
• Charles Doran (1877–1964)
• Julian Wylie (1878–1934)
• Frederick Lonsdale (1881–1954)
• Theodore Komisarjevsky (1882–1954)
• Gilbert Miller (1884–1969)
• Robert Atkins (1886–1972)
• Ben Travers (1886–1980)
• George Abbott (1887–1995)
• Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
• George S. Kaufman (1889–1961)
• Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
• Maud Carpenter (1892–1967)
• Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)
• Michel St Denis (1897–1971)
• Noël Coward (1899–1973)
• Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971)
• Lee Strasberg (1901–1982)
• Donald Wolfit (1902–1968)
• John Gielgud (1904–2000)
• John Counsell (1905–1967)
• Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
• Clifford Odets (1906–1963)
• Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
• Bernard Miles (1907–1991)
• Hugh Binkie’ Beaumont (1908–1973)
• David Merrick (1911–2000)
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
• Joan Littlewood (1914–2002)
• Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
• Michael Croft (1922–1986)
• Jack Lynn (1923–2012)
• Peter Brook (1925–)
• John Barton (1928–2018)
• John Osborne (1929–1994)
• Doreen Cannon (1930–1995)
• Radu Pen Ciulescu (1930–)
• William Gaskill (1930–2016)
• Peter Hall (1930–2017)
• Harold Pinter (1930–2005)
• Stephen Sondheim (1930–)
• Ray Cooney (1932–)
• Peter Shaffer (1926–1916)
• Alan Bennett (1934–)
• Edward Bond (1934–)
• Patrick Garland (1935–2013)
• Simon Gray (1936–2008)
• Tom Stoppard (1937–)
• Yvonne Brewster (1938–)
• Alan Ayckbourn (1939–)
• Michael Rudman (1939–)
• Trevor Nunn (1940–)
• Michael Whitehall (1940–)
• Dan Crawford (1942–2005)
• Richard Eyre (1943–)
• Mike Leigh (1943–)
• August Wilson (1945–2005)
• Harvey Fierstein (1954–)
• Phyllida Lloyd (1957–)
• Deborah Warner (1959–)
• Paulette Randall (1961–)
• Rufus Norris (1965–)
• Marianne Elliott (1966–)
• Kwame Kwei-Armah (1967–)
• Roy Williams (1968–)
• Sarah Kane (1971–1999)
• Alan Lane (1978–)
• Arinze Kene (1987–)
• Roy Alexander Weise (1988–)
• Act Five: Unforeseen Circumstances The night has been unruly’Macbeth
• Handling a Difficult Audience
• Charles Macklin (?1699–1797)
• David Garrick (1717–1779)
• W. R. Chetwood (D.1776)
• Charles Holland (1733–1769)
• John O’Keefe (1747–1833)
• John Philip Kemble (1757–1823)
• Washington Irving (1783–1859)
• John Johnstone (Lester) Wallack (1820–1888)
• Barry Sullivan (1821–1891)
• Seymour Hicks (1871–1949)
• Laurette Taylor (1884–1946)
• Nigel Hawthorne (1929–2001)
• Ned Sherrin (1931–2007)
• Judi Dench (1934–)
• Obioma Ugoala (1990–)
• The Audience of Julie (2018)
• The Unexpected on Stage
• John Vandenhoff (1790–1861)
• Stephen Kemble (1758–1822)
• William Dunlap (1766–1839)
• Samuel Phelps (1804–1878) & Joseph Jefferson (1829–1905)
• John Johnstone (Lester) Wallack (1820–1888)
• J. B. Howe (1828–1908)
• Joan Littlewood (1914–2002) & Gerry Raffles (1928–1975)
• Peter Bowles (1936–)
• David Weston (1938–)
• Dominic Dromgoole (1963–)
• Declan Donnellan (1953–)
• Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017)
• Actors Improvising
• William Pinkethman (c.1660–1725)
• David Garrick (1717–1779)
• Edmund Kean (1787–1833)
• William Charles Macready (1793–1873)
• J. W. Cooke (?fl. 1850S)
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937)
• Oliver Burchett Clarence (1870–1955)
• Martin Jarvis (1941–)
• Ian Ogilvy (1943–)
• Robin Soanes (1947–)
• Actors Corpsing
• Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
• Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
• Drying’ and Nerves’
• John Palmer (?1742–1798)
• Glenn Melvyn (1918–1999)
• Michael Simkins (1957–)
• The Demon Drink
• William Dunlap (1766–1839)
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
• Animals
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937)
• Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976) & Russell Thorndike (1885–1972)
• Rivalry
• Edwin Forrest (1806–1872)
• Edwin Booth (1833–1893)
• Distinguished Visitors
• William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898)
• Queen Mary (1867–1953)
• Charles Chaplin (1889–1977)
• John Counsell (1905–1987)
• Dominic Dromgoole (1963–)
• Fire and Brimstone
• Tate Wilkinson (1739–1803)
• John Philip Kemble (1757–1823)
• William Dunlap (1766–1839)
• Henry Irving (1838–1905)
• Amber Massie-Blomfield (1984–)
• Michael Billington (1939–)
• Acts of War
• Lilian Baylis (1874–1937)
• Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976) & Russell Thorndike (1885–1972)
• Alfred Lunt (1892–1977) & Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983)
• Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
• Donald Wolfit (1902–1968)
• John Counsell (1905–1987)
• Esmond Knight (1906–1987)
• Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
• Alec Guinness (1914–2000)
• Simon Callow (1949–)
• And Finally?.?.?.
• James Agate (1877–1947)
• Richard Archer Prince (1865–1936)
• Epilogue: And now farewell’The Tempest
• William Peer (d.1713)
• William Oxberry (1784–1824)
• Joseph Joe’ Jefferson (1829–1905)
• Henry Irving (1838–1905)
• Frank Randle (1901–1957)
• Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
• Michael Redgrave (1908–1985)
• The Show Must Go On
• Triumph
• Disaster
• Triumph
• Last Word
• Acknowledgements: For all, our thanks’hamlet
• Text Acknowledgements
• Index: As index to the story we late talk’d of’ richard iii

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