"The Duke of Gloucester's Sword: Prosthetic Props in the Repertory of Edmund Kean" 
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo486/
Author:
	MacLeod, Emily.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association) 19, no. 1 (2023): 56–64.
DOI:
	10.1080/17450918.2023.2183089
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Kean, Edmund
Keywords:
	props
Tags:
	Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Richard III, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo486