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Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing ...
Ellen Terry English Actress 1848 – 1928 A.D. Ellen Terry, an English actress, the most popular of her time, born at Coventry. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Terry, well-known provincial actors, and her sisters Kate, Marion and Florence, and her brother Fred, all joined the theatrical profession.
Alice Ellen Terry was born in Coventry, England, the third born child in a theatrical family. Her parents, Benjamin and Sarah (née Ballard), were comic actors in a touring company based in Portsmouth and bad eleven children, at least five of whom became actors. Terry's first appearance on stage came at the age of eight, when she appeared ...
Benjamin Terry and Sarah Ballard. Sarah Terry with her daughter Ellen, circa 1860. Benjamin Terry (1817–1896) [n 1] was a moderately successful actor in the mid-19th century. His father, also called Benjamin, an innkeeper, married Catherine Crawford in 1838. The younger Benjamin's wife, Sarah, née Ballard (1819–1892), was the daughter of ...
Abstract. This article examines the role and reputation of Ellen Terry, the most eminent British Shakespearean actress of the late-Victorian period, and the extent to which she interrogated her function on the eminently spectacular stage of London’s Lyceum theatre. The article contends that in her writing – her autobiography, annotations of ...
Ellen Terry. Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16, she married the 46-year-old ...
Portia (To Ellen Terry) I marvel not Bassanio was so bold. To peril all he had upon the lead, Or that proud Aragon bent low his head. Or that Morocco’s fiery heart grew cold: For in that gorgeous dress of beaten gold. Which is more golden than the golden sun. No woman Veronese looked upon.