William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes

Released on by Henry Zecher
preview-18

  • William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes Book Detail

  • Author : Henry Zecher
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Publisher : Xlibris
  • Genre : Actors
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781453555811
  • File Size : 84,84 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes by Henry Zecher PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts

Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 328 Views
DOWNLOAD

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”

WILLIAM GILLETTE IN SHERLOCK H

WILLIAM GILLETTE IN SHERLOCK H

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 9993 Views
DOWNLOAD

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced