400 characters of context from Alan R. Young, Visual Representations of Hamlet, 1709-1900
400 characters of context from Alan R. Young, Visual Representations of Hamlet, 1709-1900
"start," the Play Scene, or the Closet Scene, and during the next
century and a half, portraits of a succession of actors holding a book
were to follow, among those depicted being Henry Johnson, Edmund Kean,
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Edmund Kean
Barry Sullivan, Charles Kean, Charles Kemble, Henry Irving, Jean
Mounet-Sully, Edwin Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, and Johnston Forbes
Robertson.
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