From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

His successor as the leading actor of London, Edmund Kean, was more often criticised for emotional excess, particularly in the fifth act.

The intensity of his performance, particularly in the conversation with the murderers and in confronting Banquo's ghost, seemed to many reviewers to recall Edmund Kean.

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* March 17 – Edmund Kean, British actor ( d. 1833 )

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* Kean ( 1836 ), based on the life of the notable late English actor Edmund Kean.

It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python ( who recorded a concert album there ), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello.

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Evidence for the first adaptation of 1 Henry VI is not found until 1817, when Edmund Kean appeared in J. H.

In 1817, Edmund Kean appeared in J. H.

In 1817, Edmund Kean appeared in J. H.

He was also the author of Effigies poetica ( 1824 ), Life of Edmund Kean ( 1835 ), Essays and Tales in Prose ( 1851 ), Charles Lamb ; a Memoir ( 1866 ), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works.

Charles John Kean ( 18 January 1811-22 January 1868 ), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean.

Edmund Kean as Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger | Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, b. 1816

Edmund Kean ( 4 November 178715 May 1833 ) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever.

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 Henry Carey.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

So full of dramatic interest is the life of Edmund Kean that it formed the subject for the play " Kean " by Jean-Paul Sartre as well as a play by Alexandre Dumas, père, entitled Kean, ou Désordre et génie, in which the actor Frédérick Lemaître achieved one of his greatest triumphs.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

Gosse was played by Alan Badel and portrayed more sympathetically than in Edmund Gosse's book.

Roger Allam played Gosse and Derek Jacobi, Edmund.

In 1866, when he played a match at Oxford, one of the Oxford players, Edmund Carter, tried to interest him in becoming an undergraduate.

* Edmund is played by John Horn in the 1970 television movie The Ceremony of Innocence.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Essex's life guard included Henry Ireton, Charles Fleetwood, Thomas Harrison, Nathaniel Rich, Edmund Ludlow, Matthew Tomlinson and Francis Russell, all of whom played a leading role in the civil war and its aftermath.

Patriot Edmund Pendleton played a large role in the Virginia Resolution for Independence ( 1775 ).

Perhaps the most significant was Edmund Brisco Ford, who founded a field of research called ecological genetics, which played a role in the evolutionary synthesis.

Edmund Blackadder is the single name given to a collection of fictional characters who appear in the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder, each played by Rowan Atkinson.

Set after the English Civil War, Sir Edmund is ( apparently ) a loyal royalist and friend of Charles I of England, played by Stephen Fry.

Anglo-Irishmen Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Grattan, Lord Castlereagh, George Macartney, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Edward Carson played major roles in British politics.

Additionally, Edmund is played by an adult actor, whereas in the text, he is a child.

In the Italian film Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile ( 1961 ) Nefertiti is in love with the young sculptor Tumos ( Thutmose ), played by Edmund Purdom, who is a friend of prince Amenophis ( Akhenaten ).

Edmund continued to enjoy the favour of the King in spite of the Southampton Plot in 1415 to place Mortimer on the throne, a rebellion in which his brother-in-law and cousin, Richard, Earl of Cambridge, played the leading role.

The plot tells the story of a feud between two affluent families, the long-established ( upper class ) Hillcrists, played by C. V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the nouveau riche ( formerly working class ) Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton.

Crystal Palace Football Club was formed on 10 September 1905 by the builders of the The Crystal Palace under the guidance of Aston Villa assistant secretary Edmund Goodman and initially played its home games at the cup final ground at The Crystal Palace.

* His second son, Sir Edmund played an important part, in conjunction with his brother-in-law Hotspur, in the fortunes of Owain Glyndŵr.

The late King's nephew, Richard, Duke of York ( played by Brian Blessed ) who is Lord Edmund Plantagenet's father, is then crowned as Richard IV.

In 1942 – 43, she played Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, in a production which also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, and Alexander Knox.

The term différance then played a key role in Derrida's engagement with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Speech and Phenomena.

Barker also played Cusins, alongside Louis Calvert, Clare Greet, Edmund Gwenn, Oswald Yorke and Annie Russell.