This program focuses on the Booth family to evaluate their tremendous impact on American theater and, in a broader sense, to create an image of Victorian American culture. Brooks McNamara, expert on 19th-century theater at New York University, and theater historian and author Mary Henderson delve into the careers of the acclaimed tragic actor Junius Brutus Booth,Sr., the notorious assassin John Wilkes Booth, and Edwin Booth, America’s first great Hamlet and the most important American actor of the 19th century. (30 minutes)

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Part of the Series : A Search for an American Voice in Theater

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