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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Margaret Webster; Margaret Webster; William Shakespeare; Margaret Webster |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Milly S Barranger |
| ISBN: | 0472113909 9780472113903 |
| OCLC Number: | 53441395 |
| Description: | xviii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Act One 1905---1936 -- An Itinerant Childhood -- Serious Beginnings -- The Old Vic and the West End -- Act Two 1937---1949 -- Broadway Nights -- Giants and Pygmies -- Battle of Angels -- The Making of Othello -- The American Repertory Theatre -- Act Three 1950---1972 -- Life at the Opera -- McCarthy -- Unfinished Business -- Losing Battles. |
| Series Title: | Triangulations. |
| Responsibility: | Milly S. Barranger. |
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In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it." -Marian Seldes"Margaret Webster is a highly welcome addition to our knowledge of the first important female director in American theater. Remembered now especially for her staging of Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and Jose Ferrer, Margaret Webster was probably the best-known, in-demand, and admired director of Shakespeare in America in the 1940s and 1950s. Fascinating throughout, the book's discussions of working with Robeson, and of HUAC, which targeted her just as her career was reaching a peak, make for especially engrossing reading." -Oscar Brockett Read more...
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