Edwin Booth: Media
American actor
Videos
Observe the tunic worn by actor Edwin Booth, embellished with the royal arms of Richard III, for the role of Shakespeare's Richard III
A look at a tunic worn by the 19th-century actor Edwin Booth in the role of Shakespeare's...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century
A discussion of the transatlantic rivalry between Edmund Kean and Junius Brutus Booth...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
Famous performance
Edwin Booth, a renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, in the title...
© Archive Photos
Edwin Booth.
Courtesy of the Theatre Collection, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Booth, Edwin; Booth, John Wilkes
Edwin Booth (left) and John Wilkes Booth.
(Left) Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-055810; (right) Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19)
Playbill headlining Edwin Booth in the title role of an 1863 performance of Hamlet
The Granger Collection, New York
Audio
Othello: Booth, Edwin
Othello recalls how he and Desdemona fell in love, “She wished she had not heard...
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