oberion – 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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Evelyn D’Alroy /evelyn-dalroy/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:17:58 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1858 Read more]]> (1882-1915)

D’Alroy’s career was cut short when at thirty-three she died. She first appeared on the stage in 1902. After touring with Ben Greet’s company for a time, she joined Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty’s Theatre. With Beerbohm, she played several parts in Shakespeare’s plays: Ophelia in Hamlet (1910), Portia (The Merchant of Venice, also in 1910), and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1911). Who Was Who in the Theatre reports that her favorite role was Ophelia.

Evelyn D'Alroy as Oberion and Margery Maude as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ]]>
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Titania /titania/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:12:57 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1770 Read more]]> Titania is a character in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon and others are also featured here.

Leslie French as Puck and Fay Compton as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Robert Atkins as Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Evelyn D'Alroy as Oberion and Margery Maude as Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "In The Palace of Theseus" in Cast of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Beatrice Ferrar as Puck and Walter Hampden as Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ]]>
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