The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-1851

The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-1851
Author: William Charles Macready
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1912
Genre: Actors
ISBN:

"In 1875, two years after Macready's death, his Reminiscences and selections from his diaries and letters, edited by the late Sir W. F. Pollock, bart., were published by Messrs. Macmillan. At that time it was thought desirable to withhold a considerable portion of the diaries, but after the lapse of nearly forty years the reasons for this suppression no longer hold good, and the most important of the omitted passages are accordingly given, for the first time, in the present work." --v.1, pref.

The Journal of William Charles Macready, 1832-1851

The Journal of William Charles Macready, 1832-1851
Author: J. C. Trewin
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0809386682

Besides being a great actor and the friend and associate of Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Browning, and most of the principal figures in the drama and literature of his time, William Charles Macready (1793-1873) was a compulsive diarist. His journal of twenty-one years, during most of which he was at the head of the English stage, is a candid and absorbing self-revelation.

Journals

Journals
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810108233

This volume presents Melville's three known journals. Unlike his contemporaries Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Melville kept no habitual record of his days and thoughts; each of his three journals records his actions and observations on trips far from home. In this edition's Historical Note, Howard C. Horsford places each of the journals in the context of Melville's career, discusses its general character, and points out the later literary uses he made of it, notably in Moby-Dick, Clarel, and his magazine pieces. The editors supply full annotations of Melville's allusions and terse entries and an exhaustive index makes available the range of his acquaintance with people, places, and works of art. Also included are related documents, illustrations, maps, and many pages and passages reproduced from the journals. This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as his difficult handwriting permits. It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

A Source Book in Theatrical History

A Source Book in Theatrical History
Author: A. M. Nagler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0486315541

An annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, props, much more.