1. Shakespeare and William Poel
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Arthur Colby Sprague
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Literature ,Pride ,History ,biology ,business.industry ,General Arts and Humanities ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Iago ,Art history ,business ,biology.organism_classification ,media_common - Abstract
On May 2, 1881, Othello was magnificently revived in London. Irving had invited Edwin Booth, who was playing with a weak company elsewhere, to visit him at the Lyceum, and the two great actors alternated in the parts of Iago and the Moor; with Ellen Terry as Desdemona. One hears of the “tumultuous applause” which they received, of the hard-shoving throng at the pit door, the many artists and authors who were present, the factions of “Boothites,” “Irvingites,” and “Terryites.” It was a production which could be cited with pride as evidence “that this nineteenth century of ours ... is not wholly unworthy to enjoy the heritage of Shakespeare”.
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- 1947
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