John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor by Michael A. Morrison - 9780521620284

John Barrymore, Shakespearean ActorAuthor(s): Michael A. Morrison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521620284, 978-0521620284\nSynopsis\nJohn Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the [tel] and 19223 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Many of the conventions of modern practice can be traced to Barrymore's performances: he was the first actor to bring the vocal and physical manner of a post-War gentleman to Shakespeare's tragic protagonists; he was the first to reinterpret time-honored roles in light of modern psychological theory. Michael Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of the production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs. Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this book, first published in 1997, situates Barrymore's distinctiv.