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Of all the characters represented by Mr. Edwin Booth during his successful engagement which came to an end last night, no one has interested me more than his Hamlet; although there is a prevailing ...

But Edwin Booth is not remembered for his skill, looks, or even for how he played Hamlet for 100 consecutive nights between 1864 and 1865. He’s remembered instead as a footnote in history ...

More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the ...

When Edwin Booth, faced by increasing family debts ... Booth became used to running to & fro between stage and dressing room, Hamlet or Lear at one moment, nurse to a hysterical woman the next.

Broadway's Booth Theatre is named in Edwin's honor, and you can still glimpse a statue of him (as Hamlet) through the locked gates of Gramercy Park. Chiefly, though, this once-famous actor is now ...

A bronze statue of Edwin Booth stands in Gramercy Park. Helayne Seidman “Since 1918 when the club gave a statue of Booth as Hamlet to Gramercy Park we have always gone into the park and hung a ...

I HAVE looked in vain through the voluminous commentaries upon Hamlet for any satisfactory ... time in the later representations of Mr. Edwin Booth. But while this admirable actor introduces ...

The Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, founded The Players ... is probably the human skull that Booth used in performances of Hamlet. As Christian Campbell, a Players member who recently let ...

and became the skull that Booth held in Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Edwin Booth always kept himself busy, as he was the owner of a theater, for which he organized performances, sold tickets ...

Edwin Booth’s was now an ignoble ... through the mouth of Hamlet, that the extravagant action, the strut, the bellow, and the rant of the actor of the robustious sort offended him “to the ...