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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2440  Thursday, 19 December 2002

From:           Ann Carrigan <Symposium1@aol.com>
Date:           Wednesday, 18 Dec 2002 12:35:57 -0500
Subject: 13.2433 Recordings of Shakespearian Actors
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.2433 Recordings of Shakespearian Actors

Russell MacKenzie Fehr <Russ12985@aol.com> writes,

>How many surviving recordings exist of Sir Herbert Beerbolm Tree, Edwin
>Booth, and Sir Henry Irving exist? Also, is the oldest surviving
>recording of Shakespeare the 1890 recording of Edwin Booth
>reading "Othello", or are there older ones out there?

I can't answer to the "oldest surviving" statistic, but you can hear
Booth online. I did a web search for "Edwin Booth recording" and found
it at:

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/rosa719/booth.htm (beware the popup ads)

Also, the original is at the Michigan State University's G. Robert
Vincent Voice Library: http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/vincent/

There are two recordings of Irving at:
http://www.theirvingsociety.org.uk/

There's a snippet of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and others, quite a few
actually, to be found at Encyclopaedia Brittanica's "Shakespeare and the
Globe" feature at:

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/ind_av.html

This might not be directly helpful to you on a scholarly basis, but it
might be interesting for other readers, and it's a free preview of sorts
in case you need to track down the originals.

--Ann Carrigan

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