Publisher's Synopsis
In celebrating four hundrend years of the London stage, Brian Masters brings to life the great actors of the past and recreates their impact in performance, from Thomas Betterton to David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Mrs. Siddons, Henry Livings, to this century with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. He says that the work of great actors does not die with them, but is re-experienced in the performances of today's actors.
