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Gielgud, John 1904-2000

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Works: 1,126 works in 2,985 publications in 14 languages and 100,518 library holdings
Roles: Actor, Performer, Narrator, Editor, Host, Vocalist, Adapter, Costume designer, Director, Author of introduction, Commentator, Speaker, Interviewee, Singer, Other, nar
Classifications: pn1997, 791.4372
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48 editions published between and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 1,658 libraries worldwide
Presents British actor John Gielgud discussing his life in the theater, which spans six decades.
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37 editions published between and 1992 in English and held by 1,381 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1968 in English and held by 1,154 libraries worldwide
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29 editions published between and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,078 libraries worldwide
"King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing to have been fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves the way for reunion, and life and hope are born out of desolation and despair"--Container.
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12 editions published between and 2001 in English and Spanish and held by 1,026 libraries worldwide
In his two seasons at London's Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 John Gielgud established himself in the forefront of Shakespearean actors, and in the six decades since then he has scaled the heights of most of the great parts, from Romeo, Richard II and Hamlet, to Macbeth, Lear and Prospero. American theatregoers acclaimed his 1936 Hamlet, which broke all previous records for the run of the play on Broadway, ironically exceeded only by his own production with Richard Burton in the title-role in 1964. In the Fifties and Sixties he toured his solo Shakespeare recital Ages of Man in more than sixty cities in Canada and the United States and recorded it for television; in 1959 he brought his original Stratford-on-Avon production of Much Ado About Nothing to Boston and New York, where he bade farewell to his brilliant Benedick. His Shakespearean films have been some of the most successful, notably his Cassius in Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando and James Mason, King Henry IV in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight and his most recent - Prospero's Books, directed by Peter Greenaway, in which he at last achieved his long-held ambition to bring The Tempest to the screen. In this book Sir John brings together a lifetime's experience of Shakespeare, as both actor and director, and illuminates the work and the man with his characteristic humor and intuitive perception of the challenges and rewards offered by these great verse-dramas. He draws vivid pictures of many fellow-actors and directors, and with the help of evocative and lavish illustrations weaves a brilliant theatrical tapestry of the twentieth century.
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11 editions published between and 1973 in English and held by 986 libraries worldwide
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46 editions published between and 2002 in English and held by 973 libraries worldwide
A unique picture of life in the theatre during the 1920s and 1930s, with fascinating glimpses of his mother's theatrical family, and other personalities including Lilian Baylis and Laurence Olivier.
 
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Alternative Names
Gielgud, Arthur John.
Gielgud, Arthur John, 1904-2000
Gielgud, Arthur John, Sir, 1904-2000
Gielgud, John, Sir, 1904-2000
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