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Physical description; xviii, 620 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., facsim. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Craig, Edward Gordon 1872-1966. Terry, Ellen - Studies. Irving, Henry Sir 1838-1905 - Studies. Actors - Great Britain - 19th century - Biography.

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'Holroyd has a wonderful eye for detail...an entirely captivating biography' Richard Eyre, Guardian

'This has all the tumbling narrative, spicy detail and easy empathy that determine his midas touch... shows Holroyd yet again pushing the biographer's art to new imaginative planes' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times

Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the Victorian stage. Creatively interdependent, they founded a power-house of arts at the Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker as business manager, where they recast Shakespeare's plays on an epic scale and took the company on lucrative and exhilarating international tours. In his masterly new biography, award-winning writer Michael Holroyd explores their public and private lives, showing how their artistic legacy and their brilliant but troubled children came to influence the modern world.

'Magnificent - not just as a fascinating exercise in group biography, but as a masterpiece of comic writing. I can think of no higher compliment that to say that I think Proust would have been addicted to it...such joie de vivre' New Statesman, Paul Taylor

'Vastly absorbing... This wonderful book, abounding in theatrical, literary, artistic, social and sexual apercus, resoundingly echoes the Shakespearian quotation that is its apt title' Irish Times

'Michael Holroyd has once again triumphed over a seemingly impossible subject. For so capacious is this tale of two great actors and their descendants that he has written a sweeping social history of theatre in late 19th- and early 20th-century England... deftly plotted, with an infectious verve that springs from his delight in the waywardness of human nature' Frances Spalding, Independent

'It's possibly the most challenging work that Holroyd has ever attempted. It may also be the most successful...Holroyd evokes the mysterious world of the Victorian and Edwardian theatre, the hiss of the gas footlights, the coloured lights and smoke, with all the attention to detail of the star-struck fan seated in the front stalls' Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday

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An epic yet intimate portrait of two theatrical dynasties, which takes us from the Victorian stage to the modern age.

Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. The Times called her the “uncrowned queen of England,” but behind her public success lay a darker story. The child bride of G.F. Watts, she eloped with a friend of Oscar Wilde’s at the age of twenty-one and gave birth to two illegitimate children.

But her greatest partnership was on stage with Henry Irving. At the Lyceum Theatre in London, the two of them created a grand Cathedral of the Arts. Their intimately involved lives exceeded in plot the Shakespearean dramas they performed on stage — and indeed were curiously affected by them. They also influenced the life and work of their remarkable children, Ellen’s children in particular. Edy Craig founded a feminist theatre group, The Pioneer Players. Her brother, Edward Gordon Craig, the revolutionary stage designer who collaborated with Stanislavski is revealed by this book to be the forgotten man of modernism. He had thirteen children by eight women. He is, perhaps, the most extraordinary man Michael Holroyd has ever written about.

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  • ÉditeurChatto & Windus
  • Date d'édition2008
  • ISBN 10 0701179872
  • ISBN 13 9780701179878
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  • Numéro d'édition1
  • Nombre de pages640
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