Edmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec...
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based on the life of the actor Edmund Kean, and its adaptations: Kean (1921 film), a German silent historical film Kean (1924 film), a silent film directed...
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King Lear (redirect from Edmund Gloucester)
Bloom states: "Tate's version held the stage for almost 150 years, until Edmund Kean reinstated the play's tragic ending in 1823." Holinshed states that the...
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text in a very successful production at Drury Lane, paving the way for Edmund Kean seventy years later (see below). Arthur Sullivan wrote incidental music...
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Kean, ou Désordre et génie (also known as Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers) is a 1924 French drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff, and starring Ivan...
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in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971). He portrayed the title role in Edmund Kean (1983) on both the West End at the Aldwych Theatre and on Broadway at...
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revivals of Shakespearean plays. Kean was born at Waterford, Ireland, a son of actor Edmund Kean and actress Mary Kean (nee Chambers). After preparatory...
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Actor of the Year in a New Play for his role as Edmund Kean in the Raymund Fitzsimons one character play Kean (1983) on the West End. Kingsley reprised the...
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returned to Broadway playing the title role in the Raymund Fitzsimons play Edmund Kean (1983). He played Willy Loman in a 1982 Sydney production of the Arthur...
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with Edmund Kean. Previously the role had been played "by a comedian as a repulsive clown or, alternatively, as a monster of unrelieved evil". Kean's Shylock...
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