John bell shakespeare biography handout
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here to observe, that though some respectable Authors appear to lament his narrow progress in the dead languages; yet we are hardy enough to contend, that if he had been more classical, he would have been less striking; if more correct, less animated; and if more uniform, less replete. To compare him to the buckram of some more modern authors, who have learning without genius; is exactly like bringing the noble, natural, variegated glow of a stately wood; (perhaps somewhat, incumbered with brush and brambles) in contrast with the sinical foppery of yew trees and box, cut into appearances which
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This book about the work of actor director John Bell is essential reading for anyone interested in Australian theatre and in Shakespearean performance. Adrian Kiernander makes use of the Stage on Screen archive of Australian theatre with extensive video excerpts of performances, and lucidly explains...
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Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
Illustration from The Tempest in Nicolas Rowe’s 1709 edition
The Stokes Shakespeare Collection was given to the ABL by William N. Stokes, Jr., a former lärling of ABL founder Dr. A.J. Armstrong, and contains over 280 titles, including significant eighteenth-century editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works. According to bibliographer Colin Franklin, the eighteenth century produced the first critical editions of Shakespeare’s works that attempted to correct errors introduced in earlier editions of single plays by previous editors, printers, and compositors. The storlek of the volumes in which these new texts appeared also made them, for the first time, suitable for home reading.
Portrait of William Shakespeare in Lewis Theobald’s 1733 edition
A number of the important eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare’s works identified by Franklin in his book Shakespeare Domesticated are contained in the Stokes Shakesp