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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
T2  - Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association)
SP  - 56-64
ID  - bbbo486
T1  - "The Duke of Gloucester's Sword: Prosthetic Props in the Repertory of Edmund Kean" 
AU  - MacLeod, Emily
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1080/17450918.2023.2183089
KW  - props
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that, particularly when he portrayed Richard III, Edmund Kean’s use of sword(s) "showed off his prodigious physical skill and then became enmeshed in his bodily decline." Suggests that Kean "consistently depended ... on his sword, to win him acclaim and ‘prop’ him up, literally and figuratively, on the stage." English summary, 56.
ER  -