A New Way to Pay Old Debts
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A New Way to Pay Old Debts is an English Renaissance drama, the most popular play by Philip Massinger. Its central character, Sir Giles Over-reach, became one of the more popular villains on English a
Edmund Kean as Sir Giles Over-reach
Edmund Kean
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Edmund Kean was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was known for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and con
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
…David Garrick's 1748 revival, the play remained popular throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. (It was praised by Thomas Jefferson.) Edmund Kean's version of Sir Giles, which debuted in 1816, was in particular a tremendous popular success, and drove the play's reputation through the remainder…
A print of Edmund Kean as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Portrait of Edmund Kean as Richard III
Edmund Kean as Brutus by James Northcote, 1819