Today is the birthday of Edmund Kean (1787-1833). Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that Kean had very little formal education he was was to become the greatest English actor of his age. The son of a clerk and an actress, he first went onstage at age four. Briefly enrolled at school he chafed […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:04AM on November 4, 2013