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See also:JEFFERSON, See also:JOSEPH (1829-1905) , See also:American actor, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia on the 20th of See also:February 1829. He was the third actor of this name in a See also:family of actors and managers, and the most famous of all American comedians. At the See also:age of three he appeared as the boy in See also:Kotzebue's See also:Pizarro, and throughout his youth he underwent all the hardships connected with theatrical touring in those See also:early days. After a See also:miscellaneous experience, partly as actor, partly as manager, he won his first pronounced success in 1858 as See also:Asa See also:Trenchard in Tom See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor's Our American See also:Cousin at Laura See also:Keene's See also:theatre in New See also:York. This See also:play was the turning-point of his career, as it was of See also:Sothern's. The naturalness and spontaneity of See also:humour with which he acted the love scenes revealed a spirit in See also:comedy new to his contemporaries, See also:long used to a more artificial See also:convention; and the See also:touch of pathos which the See also:part required revealed no less to the actor an unexpected See also:power in himself. Other early parts were See also:Newman Noggs in See also:Nicholas Nickleby, : See also:Caleb Plummer in The See also:Cricket on the See also:Hearth, Dr Pangloss in The See also:Heir at See also:Law, See also:Salem Scudder in The See also:Octoroon, and Bob Acres in The Rivals, the last being not so much an See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of the See also:character as See also:Sheridan sketched it as a creation of the actor's. In 1859 Jefferson made a dramatic version of the See also:story of Rip See also:Van Winkle on the basis of older plays, and acted it with success at See also:Washington. The play was given its permanent See also:form by See also:Dion See also:Boucicault in See also:London,where (1865) it ran 170 nights, with Jefferson in the leading part. Jefferson continued to See also:act with undiminished popularity in a limited number of parts in nearly every See also:town in the See also:United States, his Rip Van Winkle, Bob Acres, and Caleb Plummer being the most popular. He was one of the first to establish the travelling combinations whichsuperseded the old See also:system of See also:local stock companies. With the exception of See also:minor parts, such as the First Gravedigger in See also:Hamlet, which he played in an " all See also:star See also:combination " headed by See also:Edwin See also:Booth, Jefferson created no new character after 1865; and the success of Rip Van Winkle was so pronounced that he has often been called a one-part actor. If this was a See also:fault, it was the public's, who never wearied of his one masterpiece. Jefferson died on the 23rd of See also:April 1905. No See also:man in his profession was more honoured for his achievements or his character. He was the friend of many of the leading men in American politics, See also:art and literature. He was an ardent fisherman and See also:lover of nature, and devoted to See also:painting. Jefferson was twice married: to an actress, See also:Margaret Clements See also:Lockyer (1832-1861), in 1850, and in 1867 to Sarah See also:Warren, niece of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Warren the actor.
Jefferson's Autobiography (New York, 1889) is written with admirable spirit and humour, and, its judgments with regard to the art of the actor and of the playwright entitle it to a See also:place beside See also:Cibber's See also:Apology. See William See also:Winter, The Jeffersons (1881), and See also:Life of Joseph Jefferson (1894) ; Mrs. E. P. Jefferson, Recollections of Joseph Jefferson (1909).
End of Article: JEFFERSON, JOSEPH (1829-1905)
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