Charles Kean as Hamlet (1838). Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common

Charles John Kean (January 18, 1811 - January 22, 1868), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean. Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1811 ( MDCCCXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge is a County in the province of Munster on the south coast of Ireland. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Edmund Kean (March 17 1789 &ndash May 15 1833 was an English Actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever

After preparatory education at Worplesdon and at Greenford, near Harrow, he was sent to Eton College, where he remained three years. Harrow is a town in the London Borough of Harrow, North West London. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. In 1827, he was offered a cadetship in the East India Company's service, which he was prepared to accept if his father would settle an income of £400 on his mother. The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or The elder Kean refused to do this, and his son determined to become an actor. He made his first appearance at Drury Lane on October 1, 1827 as Norval in Home's Douglas, but his continued failure to achieve popularity led him to leave London in the spring of 1828 for the provinces. Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common John Home ( 22 September 1722 &ndash 5 September 1808) was a Scottish Poet and Dramatist. At Glasgow, on October 1 in that year, father and son acted together in Arnold Payne's Brutus, the elder Kean in the title-part and his son as Titus. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

After a visit to the United States in 1830, where he was received with much favour, he appeared in 1833 at Covent Garden as "Sir Edmund Mortimer" in Colman's The Iron Chest, but his success was not pronounced enough to encourage him to remain in London, especially as he had already won a high position in the provinces. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Covent Garden (Pronunciation kɒvʌnt is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest George Colman ( October 21, 1762 &ndash October 17, 1836) known as " the Younger," English dramatist In January 1838, however, he returned to Drury Lane, and played Hamlet with a success which gave him a place among the principal tragedians of his time. Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 He was married to the actress Ellen Tree (1805-1880) on January 25, 1842, and paid a second visit to America with her from 1845 to 1847. Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common

Charles Kean and his wife as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, in costumes that aimed to be historically accurate (1858). Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare 's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written some time between Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common

Returning to England, he entered on a successful engagement at the Haymarket, and in 1850, with Robert Keeley, became lessee of the Princess's Theatre, London. The Princess's Theatre or Princess Theatre was a theatre in Oxford Street, London. The most noteworthy feature of his management was a series of gorgeous Shakespearean revivals that aimed for "authenticity". William Shakespeare ( baptised ^[1] Kean also mentored the young Ellen Terry in juvenile roles. Dame Ellen Terry GBE ( 27 February 1847 &ndash 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress. Charles Kean was not a great tragic actor. He did all that could be done by the persevering cultivation of his powers, and in many ways manifested the possession of high intelligence and refined taste, but his defects of person and voice made it impossible for him to give a representation at all adequate of the varying and subtle emotions of pure tragedy. But in melodramatic parts such as the king in Dion Boucicault's adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's Louis XI, and Louis and Fabian dei Franchi in Boucicault's adaptation of Dumas's The Corsican Brothers, his success was complete. Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (born December 26, circa 1820 &ndash died September 18, 1890) was an Irish Actor and Playwright Jean-François Casimir Delavigne ( April 4, 1793 - December 11, 1843) was a French Poet and Dramatist. From his "tour round the world" Kean returned in 1866 in broken health, and died in London on 22 January 1868 at the age of 57. He is buried at Horndean, Hampshire. ^[2]

Notes

References

• The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, by John William Cole (1859).

External links

• Works by Charles Kean at Project Gutenberg

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