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There Is Nothing like a Dane
There Is Nothing like a Dane
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Author: Clive Francis Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Format: Softcover # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2003 ISBN-10: 0312313772 ISBN-13: 9780312313777
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About the Book:
RARE BOOK, only a very limited
number of copies are still available.
There is Nothing Like a
Dane!: The Lighter Side of Hamlet is an affectionate
compilation of mostly funny (but sometimes serious) bits and pieces
about Hamlet — interwoven with delectable caricatures by Clive
Francis of various members of the theatrical profession strutting
their stuff.
The great hall of fame is duly visited, though its inhabitants are
not always as dignified as they would like to seem. Here are glimpses
in word and pictures of the likes of Donald Wolfit, Kenneth Branagh,
John Gielgud, Henry Irving, Jonathan Pryce, John Barrymore, Alec
Guinness, Richard Burton and of course, Laurence Olivier. The tone is
also elevated now and then by contributions from great writers such
as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding and P.G. Wodehouse.
But the chief delight is in the unexpected: a stubbornly mustachioed
Ophelia in Poona, India, an inadvertently horn-rimmed Hamlet on
London’s Waterloo Road — and would you believe Tony Hancock,
Tommy Cooper and even June Whitfield as the Prince of Denmark?
There is Nothing Like a
Dane! is a book for actors and audiences — and
Shakespeare buffs on their day off.
About the Author:
Clive Francis is a British
stage, television and film actor. He has made over a hundred
television appearances and performed in a large number of shows in
London's West End. He is also a noted caricaturist and has had
several solo exhibitions including three at the National Theatre. His
caricatures have appeared on the covers for books written by actor
Alec Guinness and a biography of John Gielgud, and has had several
books of his caricatures published, including There Is Nothing
Like a Dane (Hamlet) and There Is Nothing Like a Thane
(Macbeth).
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