Edwin Booth - A Bio-Bibliography

Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture from which to view theatre and society of the period. The scholarly bibliography of over 1,000 annotated entries includes substantive writings about Booth in books, journals, and dissertations covering 130 years during and after his career as well as ephemeral references to Booth in the major journals of his day and a section of specialized reference materials relating to Booth. Among its unique features are a section on Booth's own writings and a section on Booth manuscript materials identified in sixty-four repositories in the United States and England.

A biographical sketch analyzes Booth's career in terms of the major periods and upheavals in his life: his early fame, the death of his first wife, the assassination of President Lincoln by his brother, his management of Booth's Theatre, and his national and international tours. Accompanying this is a chronology of major events, a genealogical chart, and reproductions of portraits and playbills. Fully indexed, this volume makes a wealth of material readily available to Booth scholars as well as to others researching related theatre and social history.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Genealogy of Edwin Booth Descendants
Chronology
Bibliography: Primary Works
Secondary Works
Specialized References
Index to Booth's Plays
Author Index
General Index

About the author

L. TERRY OGGEL is Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published extensively on Edwin Booth, Mark Twain, James Russell Lowell, and other topics in American literature and theatre and is the editor of The Letters and Notebooks of Mary Devlin Booth (Greenwood Press, 1987).

Product details

• Authors: L Oggel, L. Terry Oggel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.1992
• EAN: 9780313261954
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26195-4
• Series: Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Bibliographies, catalogues