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Observe the tunic worn by actor Edwin Booth, embellished with the royal arms of Richard III, for the role of Shakespeare's Richard III
A look at a tunic worn by the 19th-century actor Edwin Booth in the role of Shakespeare's...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (
A Britannica Publishing Partner
)
Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century
A discussion of the transatlantic rivalry between Edmund Kean and Junius Brutus Booth...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (
A Britannica Publishing Partner
)
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Edwin Booth in the title role of
Hamlet
© Archive Photos
Edwin Booth.
Courtesy of the Theatre Collection, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Booth, Edwin; Booth, John Wilkes
Edwin Booth (left) and John Wilkes Booth.
(Left) Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-055810; (right) Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19)
Playbill headlining Edwin Booth in the title role of an 1863 performance of
Hamlet
The Granger Collection, New York
Edwin Booth, photograph by Bradley and Rulofson
Courtesy of the Theatre Collection, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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Othello
: Booth, Edwin
Othello recalls how he and Desdemona fell in love, “She wished she had not heard...
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