A01=Gordon Samples
Author_Gordon Samples
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Category=DNBF
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Product details
- ISBN 9780786405862
- Weight: 345g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 1998
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first book on Booth's ten tumultuous years on the stage, with a wealth of rare period illustrations reproduced with special techniques yielding results of better quality than the originals.
The book evaluates his performances through newspaper reviews and the recorded opinions of his contemporaries; it also separates Booth the actor from Booth the assassin. Previously unpublished letters are included, some in facsimile.
John Wilkes' famous brother Edwin was not necessarily the leading actor of his era: this book indicates why John Wilkes Booth might claim that distinction.
One of the appendices is an exhaustive chronology of all his performances, and all fellow cast members.
The late Gordon Samples was the director of Special Collections at San Diego State University. He was a long-standing collector-scholar of Lincoln and Booth material.
