Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

About this eBook

Author

Iles, George, 1852-1942

Credits

Scanned and proofed by Ron Burkey

Language

English

LoC Class

CT: History: Biography

Subject

Actors -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1702

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1702

Release Date

April 1, 1999

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE — JOSEPH JEFFERSON — HOW I CAME TO PLAY RIP VAN WINKLE — THE ART OF ACTING — PREPARATION AND INSPIRATION — SHOULD AN ACTOR "FEEL" HIS PART — JOSEPH JEFFERSON IN MONTREAL — THE JEFFERSON FACE — EDWIN BOOTH — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO HIS DAUGHTER — TO MISS EMMA F. CARY SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, 1864. — TO MR. NAHUM CAPEN — ADVICE TO A YOUNG ACTOR — CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN — AS A CHILD A MIMIC AND SINGER — FIRST VISITS TO THE THEATRE — PLAYS LADY MACBETH, HER FIRST PART — TO A YOUNG ACTRESS [PART OF A LETTER] — TO A YOUNG MOTHER — EARLY GRIEFS. ART HER ONLY SPOUSE — FAREWELL TO NEW YORK — CLARA MORRIS — SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH — THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN — WHEN IN MY HUNT FOR A LEADING MAN FOR MR. DALY I FIRST SAW COGHLAN AND IRVING — SIR HENRY IRVING — THE STAGE AS AN INSTRUCTOR — INSPIRATION IN ACTING — ACTING AS AN ART. HOW IRVING BEGAN — FEELING AS A REALITY OR A SEMBLANCE — GESTURE. LISTENING AS AN ART. TEAM-PLAY ON THE STAGE — HENRY BRODRIBB IRVING — THE CALLING OF AN ACTOR — REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STAGE — TEMPTATIONS ON THE STAGE — ACTING IS A GREAT ART — RELATIONS TO "SOCIETY" — THE FINAL SCHOOL IS THE AUDIENCE — FAILURE AND SUCCESS — ELLEN TERRY — HAMLET—IRVING'S GREATEST PART — THE BIRMINGHAM NIGHT — THE ENTRANCE SCENE IN "HAMLET" — THE SCENE WITH THE PLAYERS — IRVING ENGAGES ME ON TRUST — IRVING'S EGOTISM — IRVING'S SIMPLICITY OF CHARACTER — RICHARD MANSFIELD — MAN AND THE ACTOR — NAPOLEON AS ACTOR — THE GIFT FOR ACTING IS RARE — THE CREATION OF A CHARACTER — COPY LIFE — SELF-CRITICISM — DISCIPLINE IMPERATIVE — DRAMATIC VICISSITUDES — A NATIONAL THEATRE — TRAINING THE ACTOR — TOMMASO SALVINI — FIRST APPEARANCE — A FATHER'S ADVICE — HOW SALVINI STUDIED HIS ART — FAULTS IN ACTING — THE DESIRE TO EXCEL IN EVERYTHING — A MODEL FOR OTHELLO — FIRST TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES — IN CUBA — APPEARANCE IN LONDON — IMPRESSIONS OF IRVING'S "HAMLET" — THE DECLINE OF TRAGEDY — TRAGEDY IN TWO LANGUAGES — AMERICAN CRITICAL TASTE — IMPRESSIONS OF EDWIN BOOTH — ADELAIDE RISTORI — FIRST APPEARANCES — SALVINI AND ROSSI — APPEARS AS LADY MACBETH — AS MANAGER — FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA — BEGINS TO PLAY IN ENGLISH — THE ACTOR VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO J. P. KEMBLE, JUNE, 1817, BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.

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