laertes – Shakespeare and the Players at Emory University Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:13:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 124205043 Walter Hampden /walter-hampden/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:13:10 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1887 Read more]]> (1879-1956)

Walter Hampden Dougherty was born in New York City, but he began his stage career in England where he learned his craft as a player in Frank Benson‘s company. He returned to New York in 1907, where he became identified with a number of Shakespeare roles: Shylock, Hamlet, Othello, Oberon, Macbeth, and Romeo.

In 1925, he acquired the Colonial Theatre in New York and renamed it Hampden’s Theatre, and there he established a repertory theatre that included the plays of Shakespeare. As late as 1947, he was still acting, taking the role of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII. He died in 1956 at the age of seventy-seven without ever seeming to retire formally from acting and producing. In fact, he played his last role in 1956, the year of his death, as King Louis XI in the film The Vagabond King. In addition to his full life in the theatre, he played in, all told, eighteen films between 1915 and 1956. His last engagement with Shakespeare came in 1949 (he was sixty-nine) when he made his television debut as Macbeth.

Lily Brayton as Ophelia, Walter Hampden as Laertes, and E. Lyall Swete as Polonius in "Hamlet" Walter Hampden as Lucentio in "The Taming of the Shrew" Walter Hampden as Laertes, Oscar Asche as Claudius, Maud Milton as Gertrude, and H.B. Irving as Hamlet in "Hamlet" Beatrice Ferrar as Puck and Walter Hampden as Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ]]>
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Claudius and Gertrude /claudius-and-gertrude/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:07:10 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1763 Read more]]> Claudius and Gertrude are characters in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Laertes is also shown in these images.

Lilian Booth as Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet" E. Lyall Swete as Polonius, H. B. Irving as Hamlet, Oscar Asche as Claudius, and Maude Milton Gertrude in "Hamlet" Lily Brayton as Ophelia, Oscar Asche as Claudius, and Maud Milton as Gertrude in "Hamlet" Walter Hampden as Laertes, Oscar Asche as Claudius, Maud Milton as Gertrude, and H.B. Irving as Hamlet in "Hamlet" Oscar Asche as Claudius, Maud Milton as Gertrude, and H. B. Irving as Hamlet in "Hamlet" ]]>
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