Background
Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in Adelaide, Australia, Feb. 10, 1898.
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Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relationships that are broadly cultural, theoretical, and imaginative. They emphasize the intersection of physical dimensions of experience with transcendent ones, whether moral, intellectual, or religious. They juxtapose lyric and sermons interactively with narrative and plays. The essays are grouped under four headings: Time, Love, Sex, and Death (Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Jennifer Pacenza), Moral, Public, and Spatial Imaginaries (Mary Blackstone and Jeanne Shami, Douglas Trevor), Names, Puns, and More (Marshall Grossman, David Lee Miller, Julian Lamb), and Realms of Privacy and Imagination (Anita Gilman Sherman, Judith H. Anderson).
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Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in Adelaide, Australia, Feb. 10, 1898.
Educated at Rose Park and at Norwood, she made her debut at the Theatre Royal in Sydney in 1915.
In 1918 she left Australia and appeared with the old Fourteenth St. Company in New York City. Her first Broadway performance was in Cobra in 1924. In 1925 she played the role of Dolores in The Dove. She returned to Australia in 1927 to appear in Cobra, Tea for Three, and The Green Hat. Later that year she was back in the United States, where she played Antoinette in Behold the Bridegroom. In 1928 Anderson played in Anna and in O'Neill's Strange Interlude. In 1930-1931 she was the Unknown One in Pirandello's As You Desire Me; in 1932, Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra; in 1935, Delia in Zoë Akins' The Old Maid; and in 1936, the Queen in Hamlet, with John Gielgud. From 1947 to 1949 she starred in Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of Euripides' Medea, and it is the passion of this role for which she will always be remembered. Another great success was her tour in the dramatic reading John Brown's Body in 1951-1952. Anderson died Jan. 3, 1992, in Santa Barbara, California, United Sates.
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Anderson was married twice.
Benjamin Harrison Lehmann, an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley; they wed in 1937 and divorced in August 1939. By this marriage she had a stepson, Benjamin Harrison Lehmann, Jr.
Luther Greene (1909–1987), a theatrical producer; they were married in July 1946 and divorced in 1951.