William Gillette Americas Sherlock Holmes

Author : Henry Zecher
Publisher : Xlibris
ISBN 13 : 9781453555811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes written by Henry Zecher and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 5521071822
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts written by Doyle A.C. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William 1853-1937 Gillette
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781373979780
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WILLIAM GILLETTE IN SHERLOCK H written by William 1853-1937 Gillette and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William 1853-1937 Gillette
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019436875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, as Produced at the Garrick Theatre, New York written by William 1853-1937 Gillette and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating memoir by actor and playwright William Gillette provides a behind-the-scenes look at the original stage production of Sherlock Holmes, which he himself starred in and co-wrote. Drawing on his personal recollections and notes, as well as reviews and promotional material from the time, Gillette offers a compelling account of the creation and reception of this iconic character. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of Sherlock Holmes on stage and screen. 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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jim Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998112114
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounts of William Gillette written by Jim Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes murder mysteries. Five Mysteries with William Gillette and Charles Frohman

Author : Bill Blackbeard
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810916098
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes in America written by Bill Blackbeard and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602399344
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes in America written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes makes his American debut in this fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers. 12 b&w illustrations.

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521240895
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by William Hooker Gillette written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521284318
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by William Hooker Gillette written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David MacGregor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787056503
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes - The Hero With a Thousand Faces: Volume 1 written by David MacGregor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined Holmes as a romantic hero, action hero, gentleman hero, recovering drug addict, weeping social crusader, high-functioning sociopath, and so on. In essence, Sherlock Holmes has become the blank slate upon which we write the heroic formula that best suits our time and place. Volume One looks at the social and cultural environment in which Sherlock Holmes came to fame. Victorian novelists like Anthony Trollope and William Thackeray had pointedly written "novels without a hero," because in their minds any well-ordered and well-mannered society would have no need for heroes or heroic behavior. Unfortunately, this was at odds with a reality in which criminals like Jack the Ripper stalked the streets and people didn't trust the police, who were generally regarded as corrupt and incompetent. Into this gap stepped the world's first consulting detective, an amateur reasoner of some repute by the name of Sherlock Holmes, who shot to fame in the pages of The Strand Magazine in 1891. When Conan Doyle proceeded to kill Holmes off in 1893, it was American playwright, director, and actor William Gillette who brought the character back to life in his 1899 play Sherlock Holmes, creating a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with his romantic version of Holmes, and cementing his place as the definitive Sherlock Holmes until the late 1930s. By that point, Sherlock Holmes had developed a cult following who facetiously maintained that Holmes was a real person, formed clubs like The Baker Street Irregulars, and introduced the idea of cosplay to the embryonic world of fandom. These well-educated fanboys subsequently became the self-assigned protectors of Sherlock Holmes, anxious that their version of the character not be besmirched or defamed in any way. In spite of this, there was considerable besmirching and defaming to be seen in the early silent films featuring Sherlock Holmes, which effectively turned him into an action hero due to the lack of sound. When sound films took the industry by storm in the late 1920s, there were a numbers of pretenders who reached for the Sherlock Holmes crown, including Clive Brook, Reginald Owen, and Raymond Massey, but it took more than a decade before a new definitive Sherlock Holmes would be crowned in 1939 in the person of Basil Rathbone.