Charles John Kean (January 18, 1811 - January 22, 1868), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean. January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... County Waterford (Port Láirge in Irish) is a county in the province of Munster on the south coast of Ireland. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Edmund Kean (March 17, 1787 – May 15, 1833) was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever. ...

After preparatory education at Worplesdon and at Greenford, near Harrow, he was sent to Eton College, where he remained three years. In 1827 was offered a cadetship in the East India Company's service, which he was prepared to accept if his father would settle an income of £400 on his mother. The elder Kean refused to do this, and his son determined to become an actor. He made his first appearance at Drury Lane on October 1, 1827 as Norval in Home's Douglas, but his continued failure to achieve popularity led him to leave London in the spring of 1828 for the provinces. At Glasgow, on October 1 in that year, father and son acted together in Arnold Payne's Brutus, the elder Kean in the title-part and his son as Titus. Harrow is the principal town in the London Borough of Harrow. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys. ... The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ... Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... John Home (September 22, 1722 - September 5, 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. ... Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ...

After a visit to the United States in 1830, where he was received with much favour, he appeared in 1833 at Covent Garden as "Sir Edmund Mortimer" in Colman's The Iron Chest, but his success was not pronounced enough to encourage him to remain in London, especially as he had already won a high position in the provinces. In January 1838, however, he returned to Drury Lane, and played Hamlet with a success which gave him a place among the principal tragedians of his time. He was married to the actress Ellen Tree (1805-1880) on January 25, 1842, and paid a second visit to America with her from 1845 to 1847. Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. ... George Colman (October 21, 1762 - October 17, 1836), known as the Younger, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was the son of George Colman the Elder. Note that George Coleman was a jazz musician who played with Miles Davis in the 1960s. ... The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Returning to England, he entered on a successful engagement at the Haymarket, and in 1850, with Robert Keeley, became lessee of the Princess Theatre. The most noteworthy feature of his management was a series of gorgeous Shakespearean revivals. Charles Kean was not a great tragic actor. He did all that could be done by the persevering cultivation of his powers, and in many ways manifested the possession of high intelligence and refined taste, but his defects of person and voice made it impossible for him to give a representation at all adequate of the varying and subtle emotions of pure tragedy. But in melodramatic parts such as the king in Dion Boucicault's adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's Louis XI, and Louis and Fabian dei Franchi in Boucicault's adaptation of Dumas's The Corsican Brothers, his success was complete. From his "tour round the world" Kean returned in 1866 in broken health, and died in London on the 22nd of January 1868 at the age of 57. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Poster for a production of Boucicaults farce Contempt of Court, c. ... Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (April 4, 1793 - December 11, 1843), was a French poet and dramatist. ... Alexandre Dumas, fils (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his fathers footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright. ...

See The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, by John William Cole (1859).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. (Redirected from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...