Great Shakespeare actors: Burbage to Branagh

Introduction

Prelude: William Shakespeare

Richard Burbage

Will Kemp

Robert Armin

Thomas Betterton

Charles Macklin

David Garrick

Who was the first great Shakespeare actress?

Sarah Siddons

George Frederick Cooke

John Philip Kemble

Dora Jordan

Edmund Kean

William Charles Macready

Helen Faucit

Who was the first great American Shakespeare actor?

Ira Aldridge

Charlotte Cushman

Edwin Booth

Henry Irving

Ellen Terry

Tommaso Salvini

Times of change

Edith Evans

Sybil Thorndike

Charles Laughton

Donald Wolfit

Ralph Richardson

John Gielgud

Laurence Olivier

Peggy Ashcroft

Michael Redgrave

Paul Scofield

Donald Sinden

Richard Pasco

Ian Richardson

Judi Dench

Derek Jacobi

Ian McKellen

Janet Suzman

Antony Sher

Simon Russell Beale

Kenneth Branagh.