Document ID ET-D437
| Archive Location | ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1911-1922 (BL) Loan 125/23A/1 |
|---|---|
| Document description | programme |
| Date | 1911 |
| Document form | D - Programme |
| Document attributes | Annotated |
| General notes | Ellen Terry's Shakespeare lecture. |
| Language | English |
Works Cited
| Title | The Triumphant Heroines of Shakespeare |
|---|---|
| Original author | Ellen Terry |
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Heroines of Shakespeare. Miss Ellen Terry
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Miss Terry's Recital. Ladies, in all parts of the Hall, are earnestly requested to remove Hats, Bonnets, or any kind of head dress. This request being made for the benefit of the audience, the Management trusts that it will appeal to everyone, and that Ladies will kindly assist in having it carried out. Photo by Window & Grove, London. Ellen Terry.
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Photo by Window & Grove, London. Ellen Terry.
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Miss Ellen Terry's Recital "The Triumphant Heroines of Shakespeare" with illustrative acting. Photo by Window & Grove, London. Ellen Terry as "Beatrice". The Recital will be divided into Two Parts (with an interval of five minutes). In the course of the First Part Miss Ellen Terry will comment on Beatrice. The Second Part will be devoted to – Rosalind, Celia, Virgilia, Volumnia, Portia. "The Triumphant Heroines" from Shakespeare's Plays. Part 1. Beatrice – "Much Ado About Nothing" (With extracts, including the Church Scene) Interval of five minutes. Part II. Rosalind "As You Like It", Celia – "As You Like It", Virgilia "Coriolanus" (With Extracts), Volumnia – "Coriolanus (With Extracts), Portia – "Merchant of Venie" (Including the Mercy Speech). The Times says: - "There is nothing conventional, nothing stereotyped, about Miss Ellen Terry's Recitals. Wherever and whenever she speaks it will always be different and always fresh, not the dry discourse of an expert scholar or literary critic, but the living, laughing, triumphant, tearful, scornful words of a great actress who is proud to be a woman. The magnetism and charm of her is for ever breaking out, not only in her considered Acting, but in numbers of little womanly impromptu gestures and remarks asides. The Recital is full of touches of satire, humour, and pathos. It is a happy thing for England, as well as for Miss Terry, that she has found so effective a way of bringing home to Shakespeare's country men and women the inner meaning of his plays and the charm of her own art." Photo by Window & Grove, London. Miss Ellen Terry as "Portia".
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Bishop & Sons Ltd, Central Printing Works, Edinburgh.
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Document ID: ET-D437 Archive location: ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1911-1922 (BL) Loan 125/23A/1
