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.

Kean achieved his greatest success in modern melodrama, and he was widely viewed as not prepossessing enough for the greatest Elizabethan roles.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

Other notable stagings featured John Philip Kemble in 1811, Samuel Phelps in 1845, and Charles Kean in an 1856 production that was famous for its elaborate sets and costumes.

O ' Kean was founded in 1869 in the southeast corner of Randolph County.

Named after Father James P. O ' Kean of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, O ' Kean was located around the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

At the rear area of the park near Pingry School was the boundary of the Kean Estate, the boyhood home of Governor Thomas Kean ( 1982 – 1990 ).

The wealthy Kean family also donated the land on Morris Avenue and helped to establish Newark Normal College in 1885, which was renamed Kean College, and later Kean University, in the family's honor.

John Kean and Susan Livingston's great-grandson, and thus a relative of Fish, was Thomas Kean, who was elected governor of New Jersey in 1982.

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

Kean was born in 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 Henry Carey.

In 1817, a local playwright named Charles Bucke submitted his play The Italians, or ; The Fatal Accusation to Drury Lane for which Kean was to play the lead.

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

Terry's first appearance on stage came at the age of eight, when she appeared opposite Charles Kean as Mamillius in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at London's Princess's Theatre in 1856.

Kean made his first appearance on the stage, aged four, as Cupid in Jean-Georges Noverre ’ s ballet of Cymon.

On 29 November 1820 Kean appeared for the first time in New York as Richard III.

Kean ’ s last appearance in New York was on 5 December 1826 in Richard III, the role in which he was first seen in America.

It was in the impersonation of the great creations of Shakespeare ’ s genius that the varied beauty and grandeur of the acting of Kean were displayed in their highest form, although probably his most powerful character was Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger ’ s A New Way to Pay Old Debts, the effect of his first performance of which was such that the pit rose en masse, and even the actors and actresses themselves were overcome by the terrific dramatic illusion.

In the first episode of the 1985 season, Reb Kean was transferred to Blackmoor after fighting with Myra but she promised Joan she would be back for her.

Alongside Gleason and Carney, Audrey Meadows returned as Alice ( for the first time since 1966 ) while Jane Kean continued to play Trixie.

Liberty Hall ( New Jersey ) | Liberty Hall, the ancestral home of the Livingston and Kean families and an important center of American Revolution | Revolution-era American politics and culture, was built in 1760 by New Jersey's first Governor of New Jersey | governor, William Livingston.

The building of the estate on which Kean University is situated began to be built in 1760, when lawyer William Livingston, who would become New Jersey's first elected governor ( on August 31, 1776 ) and a Revolutionary War patriot and signer of the United States Constitution, bought in then-Connecticut Farms and Elizabethtown, New Jersey, across the river from his New York home, in hopes of establishing a country residence.

Susan Livingston Kean, a niece of Governor Livingston, was the widow of John Kean, a Continental Congress delegate and advocate for the ratification of the Constitution in South Carolina who served as the first cashier of the Bank of the United States.

Peter Kean, the only son of Susan and John Kean, who married Sarah Sabina Morris, a granddaughter of Lewis Morris, the first royal governor of New Jersey, and served as colonel of the Fourth Regiment of New Jersey and an escort of Lafayette on his tour of New Jersey predeceased his mother.

John Kean II, who served on the staff of Governor Pennington with the rank of colonel, was an original stockholder of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, served as the first president of the Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad, as a vice president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, as president of the National Bank of New Jersey, as president of the Elizabethtown Gaslight Company ( later known as Elizabethtown Gas Company ) and Elizabethtown Water Company lived at Liberty Hall for 60 years and made the most dramatically significant changes to the house and property in its history, transforming the house into a 50-room Victorian Italianate structure.

A frequent political meeting place in the first years of its life, Kean Hall now houses the undergraduate admissions office and administrative offices including the Presidential Suite and the conference room for the Kean University Board of Trustees.

Dr. Elsa Gomez became the first female president of Kean College in 1989 and served until 1994.

Kean University-Wenzhou would have been China ’ s first full-scale American-style university, but the plans became caught up in red tape in the Beijing government.

On May 29, 2007 Kean University won their first Division III College World Series, winning the national title in baseball, defeating Emory University by a score of 5 – 4 in 10 innings.

The play, which deals with the jealousy of Alexander's first wife, Roxana, for his second wife, Statira, was a favourite on the English stage right up to the days of Edmund Kean.

His first important success was Caius Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815 ; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 1820 at Covent Garden.

Edmund Kean played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances.

" Kean played the tragic Lear for a few performances.

He belonged to the school of Kean rather than of Kemble ; but, if his tastes were better disciplined and in some respects more refined than those of Kean, his natural temperament did not permit him to give proper effect to the great tragic parts of Shakespeare, King Lear perhaps excepted, which afforded scope for his pathos and tenderness, the qualities in which he specially excelled.

Kean ’ s long-standing presence contributed to Booth ’ s never ending comparisons to his rival.

Charles Kean returned to Shakespeare's text in an 1851 production.

Notable actors who have portrayed Shylock include Richard Burbage in the 16th century, Charles Macklin in 1741, Edmund Kean in 1814, William Charles Macready in 1840, Edwin Booth in 1861, Henry Irving in 1880, George Arliss in 1928, John Gielgud in 1937, Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre in 1972 and on TV in 1973, Patrick Stewart in 1965 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol and 1978, plus ( as Shylock ) in a one-man stage show Mr. Stewart developed entitled " Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien " in 1987 and 2001, Al Pacino in a 2004 feature film version as well as in Central Park in 2010, and F. Murray Abraham at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2006.