polonius – Shakespeare and the Players at Emory University Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:28:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 124205043 Lyall Swete /lyall-swete/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:28:27 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1999 Read more]]> (1865-1930)

Edward Lyall Swete was born in 1865 in Cheshire, England. He played in productions of Shakespeare on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing as Polonius in H.B. Irving‘s 1904 Hamlet (shown here), and earlier in at least two productions of Richard II (1896 and 1901) at Sir Frank Benson‘s Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Swete served as set designer for one of them. He played the Duke of York in the first and John of Gaunt in the second.

Lily Brayton as Ophelia, Walter Hampden as Laertes, and E. Lyall Swete as Polonius in "Hamlet" Lily Brayton as Ophelia and E. Lyall Swete as Polonius in "Hamlet" E. Lyall Swete as Polonius, H. B. Irving as Hamlet, Oscar Asche as Claudius, and Maude Milton Gertrude in "Hamlet" ]]> 1999 Polonius /polonius/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:05:13 +0000 http://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare/?p=1761 Read more]]> Polonius is a character in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Lily Brayton as Ophelia, Walter Hampden as Laertes, and E. Lyall Swete as Polonius in "Hamlet" ]]> 1761