The Works of Shakspeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. With Notes and Introductions to Each Play by F.A. Marshall and other Shakespearian Scholars, and Life of Shakespeare by Edward Dowden. With Numerous Illustrations by Gordon Browne.

SHAKESPEARE, William.

Edité par LondonBlackie & Son Limited ., 1893

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THE HENRY IRVING SHAKESPEARE. SUBSCRIPTION EDITION. 8 vols. 8vo. (23 x 17 cm). Original publisher's pictorial tan cloth gilt with vignettes to both covers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, burgundy-coated endpapers, all edges gilt. 38 full-page engraved plates (including frontispiece to each volume), numerous ("nearly six hundred") wood-engraved vignettes throughout the text. Ex libris Janet Clayton with her elegant ownership inscription to front free endpaper of vol.1. Some darkening to spines, minimal light shelfwear to extremities and corners, occasional scattered spotting, inner hinge of vol.4 split, generally a very good set. "This important edition, which in some respects has never been surpassed, is especially valuable - Because the Editors hold a justly recognized position as Shakespearian scholars and interpreters, and have distinctive gifts which especially fir them for this work. Because the Notes are full and particularly helpful to the general reader, while the literary history, stage history characters, and construction of each play have been treated in separate Introductions with a completeness rarely attempted. Because the lavish Pictorial Illustration surpasses all previous efforts to depict the dramatist's conceptions in such a manner as shall at once charm the eye, elucidate the text, and present the personages, costumes, and accessories with historical accuracy" (from the preface). Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society. Irving is widely acknowledged to be one of the inspirations for Count Dracula, the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula whose author, Bram Stoker, was business manager of the theatre. Bram Stoker later wrote a biography of Henry Irving.

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• Titre: The Works of Shakspeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. With Notes and Introductions to Each Play by F.A. Marshall and other Shakespearian Scholars, and Life of Shakespeare by Edward Dowden. With Numerous Illustrations by Gordon Browne.
• Éditeur: LondonBlackie & Son Limited .
• Date de parution: 1893
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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