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Jun 23, 2024 · Edmund Kean (17 March 1787 – 15 May 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever. Early life. Kean was born in westminister London. His father was probably Edmund Kean (see Ó Catháin), an architect’s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright ...
2 days ago · In 1833, acclaimed British actor Edmund Kean – performing in blackface - collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A Black actor named Ira Aldridge was asked to take over the role. But, as the public rebelled over the abolition of slavery, how would the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? Lolita Chakrabarti’s powerful stageplay Red Velvet tells ...
1 day ago · Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Othello was regarded as the most demanding of Shakespeare's roles: it is considered a part of theatre legend that Edmund Kean collapsed while playing the role, and died two months after.
1 day ago · The reaction was instantaneous. It became known as ‘one of the celebrated nights in the English theatre, comparable only with the night Garrick took the town by storm in Richard III in October 1741’ , or years later when Edmund Kean played Shylock. Mrs Siddons had audience members in tears, crying out, shrieking, even fainting.
Jun 27, 2024 · On 26 January 1814, Edmund Kean debuted as Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice at London's Drury Lane theatre. William Hazlitt, drama critic for the Morning Chronicle since the previous September, was in the audience.
Jun 28, 2024 · It includes entries on the plays and the major characters, on Shakespeare's life and his contemporaries, on actors from Edmund Kean to Peter O'Toole, on theaters and directors, and comments on Shakespeare by later authors such as Austen, Johnson, Keats, and Woolf.
4 days ago · In 1833 Edmund Kean made his last appearance on these boards. In the same year the two great theatres of Drury Lane and Covent Garden were united under the management of Mr. Bunn, but the union was of short duration.
