Calvert, Louis
Calvert, Louis (1859–1923),English actor-manager who upheld the Shakespearian tradition of his parents Charles and Adelaide Calvert. His career encompassed the diversity of Shakespearian staging on both sides of the Atlantic—and beyond—for half a century. Calvert acted with Benson and Tree, assisting the latter with his ambitious revival of Julius Caesar (1898), as he did Richard Flanagan with his sumptuous Shakespearian productions in Manchester where—in contrast—Calvert also staged Richard II (1895) in the Elizabethan style for the Manchester branch of the Independent Theatre. In 1909 Calvert was recruited for the ill-fated New Theatre, New York, where his production of The Winter's Tale (1910) prefigured Granville-Barker's. Calvert remained in America, contributing an Elizabethan-style The Tempest to the Shakespeare tercentenary of 1916, but devoting himself increasingly to training actors in the...
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