Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- The Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore
- 2 Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the “New Psychology” in John Barrymore's “Unstable” Characters
- 3 The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes
- 4 John Barrymore's Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel
- 5 “Keep Back your Pity”: The Wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast and Moby Dick
- 6 From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover
- 7 The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore's Performance in Svengali
- 8 Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality
- 9 A Star is Dead: Barrymore's Anti-Christian Metaperformance
- 10 Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement
- 11 John Barrymore's Sparkling Topaze
- 12 “Planes, Motors, Schedules”: Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore
- 13 Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance
- 14 “I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor”: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century
- 15 Barrymore Does Barrymore: The Performing Self Triumphant in The Great Profile
- Works Cited
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- The Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore
- 2 Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the “New Psychology” in John Barrymore's “Unstable” Characters
- 3 The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes
- 4 John Barrymore's Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel
- 5 “Keep Back your Pity”: The Wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast and Moby Dick
- 6 From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover
- 7 The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore's Performance in Svengali
- 8 Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality
- 9 A Star is Dead: Barrymore's Anti-Christian Metaperformance
- 10 Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement
- 11 John Barrymore's Sparkling Topaze
- 12 “Planes, Motors, Schedules”: Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore
- 13 Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance
- 14 “I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor”: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century
- 15 Barrymore Does Barrymore: The Performing Self Triumphant in The Great Profile
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Hamlet Lives in HollywoodJohn Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017