Kean as Sir Giles Overreach in Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Born
(1787-11-04)4 November 1787[1]
Westminster, London, England
Died
15 May 1833(1833-05-15) (aged 45)
Richmond, Surrey, England
Occupation
Actor
Spouse
Mary Chambers
Children
Charles Kean
Edmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was a celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was known for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and controversial divorce.
^"Edmund Kean, MM, St. Marks Lodge at Glasgow No.102". Provincial Grand Lodge of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
EdmundKean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was a celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast...
based on the life of the actor EdmundKean, and its adaptations: Kean (1921 film), a German silent historical film Kean (1924 film), a silent film directed...
revivals of Shakespearean plays. Kean was born at Waterford, Ireland, a son of actor EdmundKean and actress Mary Kean (nee Chambers). After preparatory...
in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971). He portrayed the title role in EdmundKean (1983) on both the West End at the Aldwych Theatre and on Broadway at...
Bloom states: "Tate's version held the stage for almost 150 years, until EdmundKean reinstated the play's tragic ending in 1823." Holinshed states that the...
text in a very successful production at Drury Lane, paving the way for EdmundKean seventy years later (see below). Arthur Sullivan wrote incidental music...
Actor of the Year in a New Play for his role as EdmundKean in the Raymund Fitzsimons one character play Kean (1983) on the West End. Kingsley reprised the...
with EdmundKean. Previously the role had been played "by a comedian as a repulsive clown or, alternatively, as a monster of unrelieved evil". Kean's Shylock...
John Jackson Edward Jenner Sarah, Countess of Jersey Dorothea Jordan EdmundKean Charles Kemble John Philip Kemble Stephen Kemble Michael Kelly John Keats...
Tate's Lear, not Shakespeare's. The tragic ending was briefly restored by EdmundKean in 1823. In 1838, William Charles Macready purged the text entirely of...
returned to Broadway playing the title role in the Raymund Fitzsimons play EdmundKean (1983). He played Willy Loman in a 1982 Sydney production of the Arthur...
London actors—including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, EdmundKean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble. Of these, Booth remained...
several productions with famous actors such as William Charles Macready, EdmundKean, and Charles Kemble. Smithson became famous for her natural presentation...
the Shakespearean actors William Macready, EdmundKean and his son Charles. On 25 March 1833 EdmundKean collapsed on stage while playing Othello, and...
initiating the romantic style in acting that was later made famous by EdmundKean. Although he claimed to have been born in Westminster, it seems likely...
(1939) as Simmia Bridge of Glass (1940) as comandante Mario Marchi Kean (1940) as EdmundKean Ritorno (1940) as Michele Donato, alias Mac Dynar La fuerza bruta...
Kingsley in 'EdmundKean'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 30, 2021. The Broadway League (September 27, 1983). "EdmundKean – Broadway...
of France: Isabel of Bavaria (1835) Kean (1836), based on the life of the notable late English actor EdmundKean. Frédérick Lemaître played him in the...
African-American actor at the centre of controversy in 1833 when he takes over from EdmundKean in Othello at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, premiered in 2012 at...
private boxes!" until Kemble capitulated to the protestors' demands. EdmundKean at Drury Lane gave a psychological portrayal of the central character...
active from the 1890s until the early 1940s, who claimed descent from EdmundKean. Herbert was born Herbert Walter McCarthy in Chatham in Kent, England...
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