Edwin Booth
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Edwin Thomas Booth was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Boot
Booth, c. 1886
Booth with his daughter Edwina, c. 1864
Portrait of Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890
Booth's Theatre Playbill of his Richard III circa 1872
Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the p
Edwin Booth
…statue of William Shakespeare that still stands in Central Park just south of the Promenade. Immediately afterwards, Edwin Booth began a production of Hamlet on the same stage, which came to be known as the "hundred nights Hamlet", setting a record that lasted until John Barrymore broke the record in 1922…
Hamlet portrayed by Edwin Booth (c. 1870)
Kronborg Castle is immortalised as Elsinore in the play Hamlet
Hamlet mistakenly stabs Polonius (Artist: Coke Smyth, 19th century).
The gravedigger scene. (Artist: Eugène Delacroix, 1839)