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Edmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever.
Kean was born in London. His father was probably Edmund Kean, an architect’s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright Henry Carey. Kean made his first appearance on the stage, aged four, as Cupid in Jean-Georges Noverre’s ballet of Cymon. As a child his vivacity, cleverness and ready affection made him a universal favourite, but his harsh circumstances and lack of discipline, both helped develop self-reliance and fostered wayward tendencies. About 1794 a few benevolent persons paid for him to go to school, where he did well; but finding the restraint intolerable, he shipped as a cabin boy at Portsmouth. Finding life at sea even more restricting, he pretended to be both deaf and lame so skillfully that he deceived the doctors at Madeira.
On his return to England he sought the protection of his uncle Moses Kean, mimic, ventriloquist and general entertainer, who, besides continuing his pantomimic studies, introduced him to the study of Shakespeare. At the same time Miss Charlotte Tidswell, an actress who had been especially kind to him from infancy, taught him the principles of acting.
Steven Berkoff talks about Edmund Kean
EDMUND KEAN con Gigi Proietti
IO, EDMUND KEAN di Giovanni de Nava 1/2
IO, EDMUND KEAN di Giovanni de Nava 1/3
"EDMUND KEAN" - con Giuseppe Pambieri e Lia Tanzi
EDMUND KEAN - GENIO E SREGOLATEZZA: 24 MARZO 2012
GIOVANNI de NAVA - Kean interpreta Shylock (da: "Io, Edmund Kean")
Io Edmund Kean (Presentazione al Teatro Arcobaleno)
Edmund Kean al Plautus Festival
Genio e sregolatezza - Edmund Kean. Sala Umberto
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