400 characters of context from Alan R. Young, Visual Representations of Hamlet, 1709-1900

by idolizers who followed their favorite
actors' fortunes with all the passion that in subsequent centuries has
been accorded certain film and music stars (the examples of John
Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edwin Booth,
and Sarah Bernhardt immediately come to mind). Not surprisingly, just
as a reputable portrait painter could make a good living by being paid
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