William Gillette

Author : Alison Berger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781664180383

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William Gillette by Alison Berger Pdf

Who was William Gillette? William Gillette: Actor, Writer, and Inventor answers this question by portraying Gillette as a brilliant stage actor and writer, named one of the “Fifty Immortals” by the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was the inventor genius who took delight in his boat as he did in his castle, with cats, trains, and a secret door. An intelligent man whose real legacy consisted in bringing the exciting adventures of Sherlock Holmes to the stage, radio, and film. Perhaps Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, said it best when he wrote to Gillette that the Holmes in [my] stories was “a very limp object compared to the glamour of your personality.” William Gillette is an easy read enriched with numerous photos and information. Readers age ten and up will enjoy this brief, descriptive biography. Ideal for libraries, schools, information and cultural centers.

Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Rosemary Cullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983-04-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521240891

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Plays by William Hooker Gillette by Don B. Wilmeth,Rosemary Cullen Pdf

The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. Gillette also adapted foreign plays for the American stage and wrote strong melodramas and spy stories in which he frequently appeared himself. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899). Gillette's sure grasp of the keys to theatrical success, together with his technical innovations, makes him an interesting and important theatre figure. In his time, as playwright and player, he achieved a new combination of melodramatic suspense with a cool, understated acting style. These three plays represent the range of his dramatic talent.

Author : Henry Zecher
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1453555811

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William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes by Henry Zecher Pdf

William Gillette is best-remembered today as the living personification of Sherlock Holmes, but he was much more than that. He was one of the nineteenth century's greatest stars, among its most successful actors and playwrights. In a career spanning six decades, he was one of the best-known celebrities in the Western world, a towering figure in an age of towering figures. Among his friends were Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Nast and Maurice Barrymore. He built a castle on the Connecticut River and a miniature railroad to run around it. Among the guests who rode on that train were President Calvin Coolidge, physicist Albert Einstein and Tokyo Mayor Ozaki Yukio, who gave to America the cherry blossoms in 1912. James M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, wrote two hit plays for which he specifically asked Gillette to star in. As a playwright, Gillette was known for the stark realism of his sets, costuming, dialogue and actions. He developed realistic and dramatic lighting and sound effects. As an actor, he developed the philosophy of The Illusion of the First Time, in which an actor speaks his lines and moves about each night, not as he has done a hundred times before, but as if he is making up his dialogue as he goes along, and moving about as if doing so for the first time, as real people do. Gillette's intention was to reproduce as much as possible the real world on stage, to make his audiences believe they were seeing a life episode being lived across the barrier of the footlights. This magnificent biography is the first full treatment of Gillette ever published. Exhaustively researched, thoroughly documented, and beautifully written, it not only details the life of this extraordinary man, it provides a colorful context of the times in which he lived. This is a major part of the history of the Western theater finally documented for our edification and enjoyment.

Author : Doyle A.C.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521071821

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Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts by Doyle A.C. Pdf

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts” is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on several stories about the world-famous detective.

Author : Erik Ofgang
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625856562

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Gillette Castle by Erik Ofgang Pdf

During his career as an actor, William Gillette portrayed world-renowned character Sherlock Holmes in more than 1,300 performances. His career as a playwright and actor afforded him the opportunity to purchase a 184-acre estate, where he also built a twenty-four-room medieval-style castle. Overlooking the Connecticut River, Gillette's castle was complete with spy mirrors, sliding furniture, hidden rooms and a three-mile quarter-scale railroad. Since becoming a state park in 1943, it has evolved into one of Connecticut's most popular tourist attractions. Writer and award-winning journalist Erik Ofgang examines the history of an iconic structure and Gillette's life and role in the evolution of Sherlock Holmes.

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080711006X

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Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879 by William Gillette Pdf

According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasize idealistic motivations at the expense of assessing concrete achievements of the era. Thus, he maintains, the failure of both the purpose and the promise of Reconstruction has not been deeply enough analyzed. Retreat from Reconstruction is the first and most comprehensive analysis yet published on the course of the development, decline, and disintegration of Reconstruction during the decade of the 1870s. Gillette sets forth the idea that these years provided the true test of the effectiveness of Reconstruction. By using the primary sources to back up and amplify his premise, he offers a detailed, thoroughly convincing study of Reconstruction and a significant interpretation of why the political programs of the Republicans ended in failure. Focusing on Reconstruction as national policy and how it was made and administered, Gillette’s study interweaves local developments in the South with political developments in the North that resulted in the withdrawal of support of that policy. His broadly based work includes an examination of federal election enforcement in the South, the southern policies of the Grant and Hayes administrations, the presidential elections of 1872 and 1876, the congressional election of 1874, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In addition to political developments, Gillette touches on the social, economic, intellectual, educational, and racial facets of Reconstruction; and by demonstrating how they bore on the political processes of the era, he deepens our understanding of a crucial but controversial period in American history and the workings of the American political system.

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0813526949

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Jersey Blue by William Gillette Pdf

This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments. Gillette takes a broader view of the politics of the Civil War as he touches on the economy, geography, demography, immigration, nativism, conscription, and law. The result is a pioneering history of New Jersey that deepens our understanding of the Civil War.

Author : James Zeruk, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612195

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Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide by James Zeruk, Jr. Pdf

This is the first complete biography of actress Peg Entwistle, known as the "Hollywood Sign Girl" because of her suicide fall from the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932. It details her childhood, stage and film career, marriage and divorce, and her suicide and almost cult-like pop culture status today. Extensively researched and written with the complete cooperation of the Entwistle family, this work includes excerpts from interviews with Peg Entwistle's brother Milton and her cousin Helen Reid, both of whom recalled much of Peg's years living in Hollywood, her career and private life, and her final weeks. It also features many of Peg Entwistle's own words from extant letters to her family and newly discovered interviews with theatrical reporters. Nearly 30 previously unpublished images from the author's collection, the Entwistle family, and a number of other sources complete an intimate look at a life that was defined by far more than its famously unhappy end.

Author : Antonia Booth,Thomas Monsell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0738511846

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Greenport, NY by Antonia Booth,Thomas Monsell Pdf

Lying ninety miles east of Manhattan and bordered by both Long Island Sound and Peconic Bay, Greenport has long been known as a boater's paradise. Part of the town of Southold, this Long Island beach town is noted for its lively mix of ethnicities and its contrasts-old-time New England rectitude giving way to a growing artistic community. In stunning photographs, Greenport portrays this place of hearty good spirits, with its legacy of fast boats and rumrunners, hardworking artisans and their grateful descendants, and notable independent figures such as Kofi Annan, and three-time America's Cup winner George Monsell.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951001987621Z

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The Book Buyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yvonne Shafer
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788437085401

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The Changing American Theatre: Mainstream and Marginal, Past and Present by Yvonne Shafer Pdf

Aquest llibre d'assajos presenta una panoràmica del desenvolupament del teatre nord-americà des de principis del segle XIX fins a l'actualitat. Mostra els canvis que el teatre va reflectir a mesura que creixia el país i es modificava la societat. Amb cada dècada, una expressió més completa de la cultura nord-americana, amb la seva gran varietat, apareixia en obres de teatre, musicals i revistes. Els assajos analitzen els esforços de figures marginals -sobretot dramaturgs i productors no comercials, afro-americans i dones- per dur a terme una ampliació de l'espectre del teatre nord-americà quant a la dramatúrgia, disseny, representació i construcció dramàtica.

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142143234X

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The Right to Vote by William Gillette Pdf

In short, the Fifteenth Amendment was not a radical document but rather was pushed by Republican moderates in an effort to consolidate their power.

Author : Steven Doyle,David A. Crowder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470647370

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Sherlock Holmes For Dummies by Steven Doyle,David A. Crowder Pdf

Get a comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author. A classic literary character, Sherlock Holmes has fascinated readers for decades -- from his repartee with Dr. Watson and his unparalleled powers of deduction to the settings, themes, and villains of the stories. Now, this friendly guide offers a clear introduction to this beloved figure and his author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, presenting new insight into the detective stories and crime scene analysis that have has made Sherlock Holmes famous. Inside you'll find easy-to-understand yet thorough information on the characters, recurring themes, and locations, and social context of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the relationship of these stories to literature, and the forensics and detective work they feature. You'll also learn about the life of the author. Better understand and enjoy this influential literary character with this plain-English guide. Gain insight on these classic Doyle tales -- from the classic Hound of the Baskervilles to the lesser-known short stories to Holmes stories written by other mystery writers. Explore the appearance of Sherlock Holmes on film, TV, and stage. Examine Holmes today -- from the ever-expanding network of fans worldwide to story locations that fans can visit. It's elementary! Sherlock Holmes For Dummies is an indispensable guide for students and fans alike!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : NYPL:33433104198092

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Peterson's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bigelow Loveland,George Loveland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Reference
ISBN : WISC:89061962403

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Genealogy of the Loveland Family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892 by John Bigelow Loveland,George Loveland Pdf