Thomas Abthorpe Cooper: America's Premier TragedianFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - 362 páginas Cooper's career stretched through the terms of America's first eleven presidents, and during those years he toured from one end of the Union to the other, often driving from town to town in his own gig at the reins of a team of galloping horses hitched in tandem. Like a comet he traveled, as one of his contemporaries described it: north to Boston, south to New Orleans, across the frontier, and on to the burgeoning river towns along the banks of the Mississippi, keeping alive for the audiences to which he played, probably more than any other actor of his generation, the great classical plays of the English repertory. |
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A Strolling Player | 21 |
Covent Garden | 32 |
Enter Thomas Wignell | 42 |
Aut Caesar Aut Nihil | 46 |
The Park Theatre | 58 |
The Conquering Hero Comes | 64 |
A Place on the Stage Which No Man in England or America Is Yet Able to Fill | 180 |
The Frontier | 193 |
On the Crest of the Wave | 202 |
A Stranger at Home | 209 |
I Am Banished Home | 219 |
A Magnificent Old Castle | 224 |
The King Comes Here Tonight | 238 |
Papa Looks So Much Happier | 250 |
I Would Rather Reign in Hell | 74 |
The Pencil of a Master | 86 |
Mr Cooper at Drury Lane | 95 |
Return to America | 104 |
A Roscius of Superior Powers | 112 |
Manager of the Park | 122 |
Garrick Take the Chair | 132 |
Partners with a King | 138 |
Cookes Tour | 147 |
Mary Fairlie | 160 |
Last Seasons as Manager | 165 |
The Blue Horse Affair | 172 |
The Veteran | 256 |
Alas He Is Old Now | 263 |
Robert Tyler | 271 |
Finale | 280 |
Paterfamilias | 284 |
Afterword | 295 |
Chronology of the Repertoire of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper | 299 |
Notes | 309 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 347 |
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Abinger Papers actor actress American Anne Merry announced appeared April arrived audience August Baltimore began Boston Bowery Theatre brilliant Bristol Caldwell career character Charles Charleston Theatre Chestnut Street Theatre closed Coleman Papers Cooke's Cooper and Priscilla Cooper played Cooper to Godwin Covent Garden Damon debut December Diary Drury Lane England February Federal Street Theatre Fennell George Frederick Cooke Hamlet Hodgkinson Holcroft Ibid James January John Philip Kemble Junius Brutus Booth Kean Kotzebue later letter London Macbeth manager March Mary Grace Mount Meigs Norval November October once opened Orleans Othello Park Theatre Philadelphia Chestnut St Pierre popular Priscilla Cooper Tyler Raoul rehearsals repertoire repertory Richard Richard III Richmond roles Romeo salary Sarah Siddons scene season September South stage success T.R. Liverpool theatrical Tom's tragedian tragedy traveled Virginia Washington Irving week Wignell's William Dunlap William Shakespeare wrote York Evening Post York Park young
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Página 232 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 6 - We have lived, sir, for some time in the same house, and, I believe, with a certain degree of friendship and good understanding. I am sorry that that friendship and good understanding have received such a shock as they have done to-day. I was certainly wrong, as I have already said, in not complying with your desire; that non-compliance brought on high words, in course of which you directly called me a liar. You called me so, not by implication; you said,
Página 136 - Mr. Cooper could not swell his fine melodious voice to the ' top of its compass ' without a responsive thunder from the house ; nor could Mr. Fennell extend his ' many a rood of limb ' in two gigantic strides from one stage door to the other, but the most learned 'million' beat their palms with ecstasy and exclaimed:
Página 246 - The king comes here to-night;" he who could wring Our hearts at will, was " every inch a king ! " For when in life's bright noon the stage he trod, In majesty and grace, a demi-god, With form, and mien, and attitude, and air, Which modern kings might envy in despair ; When his stern brow and awe-inspiring eye Bore sign of an imperial majesty ; Then — in the zenith of his glory — then He moved a model for the first of men. The drama was his empire : and his throne No rival dared dispute — he...
Página 121 - ... All Otway's grief and Congreve's wit. With him a chosen band agree To make the stage what it should be, The serious moral to impart, To cheer the mind and mend the heart. The manners of the age t'improve, To enforce the power of virtuous love, Chaste morals in the soul t'implant Which most admire, and many want. " On such a plan, theatric shows Do honor to the thespian muse, Impart a polish to the mind; Instruct and civilize mankind. Ye sages who in morals deal, But all the pleasing side conceal,...
Página 44 - And now to business : after just reminding you that, though you did not wish me to apply for a London engagement for you, it would have looked quite as friendly had you written to me without this personal motive. Mr. Wignell, the manager of the theatres of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in America...
Página 174 - In fact, in certain characters, such as may be classed with Macbeth, I do not think that Cooper has his equal in England.
Página 290 - A portly old gentleman, with rubicund face and silvery 'hair ; clothed in summer in an entire suit of white, with an eye-glass hanging jauntily from his neck, and a certain indescribable air of high breeding about him, was, for several years, frequently observed in the neighborhood of Wall street, by many, who little imagined that in his person was once concentrated all the matchless elegance of the tragedian Cooper.
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The Cambridge History of American Theatre Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
History of the North American Theater: The United States, Canada and Mexico ... Felicia Hardison Londré,Daniel J. Watermeier Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |