Edmund Kean

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Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century

Edmund Kean, detail of a pencil drawing by Samuel Cousins, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Edmund Kean, detail of a pencil drawing by Samuel Cousins, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century

Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century

A discussion of the transatlantic rivalry between Edmund Kean and Junius Brutus Booth...

Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Kean, Edmund

Kean, Edmund

Edmund Kean as Richard the III, mezzotint by Charles Turner afer a painting by J.J....

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c20971)

Edmund Kean, detail of a pencil drawing by Samuel Cousins, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edmund Kean, detail of a pencil drawing by Samuel Cousins, 1814; in the National...

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

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