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John Gielgud

    Sir John Gielgud was een Engelse acteur en regisseur, geroemd om zijn elegante podiumaanwezigheid en zijn diepe connectie met het klassieke repertoire. Hij werd vooral gevierd om zijn prachtige voordracht van versen, zijn warme en expressieve stem die vaak werd vergeleken met een "zilveren trompet gedempt met zijde". Zijn optredens kregen al vroeg internationale erkenning, wat zijn nalatenschap als een vooraanstaand figuur in de podiumkunsten verstevigde. Gielguds meesterschap leverde hem aanzienlijke erkenning op via meerdere prestigieuze prijzen.

    An Actor and His Time
    Shakespeare
    A Tale of Two Cities
    The Spitting Image Book - 2: Spitting Image
    • A Tale of Two Cities

      • 371bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Dickens's stirring tale of love, hope and nobility during the French Revolution. The epic story of two cities and two men. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, very different in character, but in love with the same woman. Darnay, who has abandoned the cruelty of the French nobility for London, has to return to Paris during the violent Revolution to rescue his faithful servant from the guillotine. But what part does Carton play in the dramatic events that follow? This edition has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics.

      A Tale of Two Cities2013
      3,9
    • Shakespeare

      The World as a Stage

      • 200bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author's inimitable wit and intelligence.

      Shakespeare2009
      3,8
    • An Actor and His Time

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      In "An Actor and His Time" John Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre - a story already enjoyed by millions of radio listeners and which tells of the plays he starred in and directed, and of the actors and actresses he knew. And, as the curtain rises on Ellen Terry, on Sarah Bernhardt, on Mrs Patrick Campbell, Sir Ralph Richardson, Richard Burton and many others, sixty glorious years of British theatre unfold before our eyes.

      An Actor and His Time1982
      3,5