Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm ( born August 24, 1872 in London, † 20 May 1956 Rapallo, Italy ) was an English parodist and caricaturist.

He was born in London, England, as the younger half- brother of actor and producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He attended Charterhouse School and Merton College; still in school he began to write. Some of his works were published in the Yellow Book (1894 ). As a young man he traveled the United States as a press spokesman for his brother's theater companies.

His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm (Eng. The works of Max Beerbohm ), appeared in 1896. 1898 he replaced George Bernard Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review ( a British magazine ), where he remained under contract until 1910. From 1935 he worked irregularly as a radio presenter.

His best known works are A Christmas Garland ( 1912), a parody of literary styles. Also known is Seven Men ( 1919), which contains Enoch Soames (English), the story of a poet who makes a pact with the devil to find out how posterity will remember him. In 1911 he wrote his only novel, Zuleika Dobson. Other works are collected in The Happy Hypocrite ( 1897).

1910 Beerbohm married the actress Florence Kahn. Later he emigrated to England married the Jewish woman and former secretary of Gerhart Hauptmann Elisabeth Jungmann ( 1894-1959 ). In 1939 he was raised to the peerage.

Books from Max Beerbohms works

Written works

  • The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane. 1896
  • More. 1899
  • Yet Again. 1909
  • Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story. 1911
  • A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm. 1912
  • Seven Men 1919
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art 1920, ed. by Max Beerbohm
  • And Even Now. 1920
  • A Peep into the Past. 1923
  • Around Theatres. 1924
  • A Variety of Things. 1928
  • The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. 1928
  • Lytton Strachey: The speech Lecture. 1943
  • Mainly on the Air 1946; expanded edition 1957
  • The Incomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm. 1962
  • Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies. 1963, ed. by J. G. Riewald
  • Letters to Reggie Turner. 1964, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • More Theatres, 1898-1903. 1969, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters. 1975, ed. by Mary M. Lago and Karl Beckson
  • Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892-1956. 1988, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Last Theatres. 1970, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces. 1972
  • Max Beerbohm and "The Mirror of the Past ". 1982, ed. by Lawrence Danson Max Beerbohm: Dandy & dandy. Selected essays and stories. Edited and translated by Eike Schönfeld. Haffmans Verlag. Zurich 1989

Cartoon collections

  • Caricatures of Twenty -five Gentlemen. 1896
  • The Poets ' Corner. 1904
  • A Book of Caricatures. 1907
  • Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull in 1911
  • Fifty Caricatures. 1913
  • A Survey. 1921
  • Rossetti and His Circle. 1922
  • Things New and Old. 1923
  • Observations. 1925
  • Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. 1931 ( five drawings in a portfolio)
  • Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892-1899. 1958, ed. by Rupert Hart -Davies and Allan Wade
  • Beerbohm 's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley. 1977, ed. by J. G. Riewald
  • Max Beerbohm Caricatures. 1997, ed. by N. John Hall

Secondary literature

  • S. N. Behrman: Portrait of Max 1960
  • David Cecil: Max: A Biography of Max Beerbohm. 1964, reprint 1985
  • Lawrence Danson: Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing. 1989
  • John Felstiner: The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm 's Parody and Caricature. 1973
  • AH Gallatin: Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm. 1952
  • AH Gallatin: Max Beerbohm: Bibliographical Notes. 1944
  • N. John Hall: Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life. 2002
  • Rupert Hart-Davis: A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm. 1972
  • Bohun Lynch: Max Beerbohm in Perspective. 1922
  • Bruce J. McElderderry: Max Beerbohm. 1971
  • JG Riewald: Sir Max Beerbohm, Man and Writer: A Critical Analysis with a letter Life and Bibliography. 1953
  • JG Riewald: The Surprise of Excellence: Modern Essays of Max Beerbohm. 1974
  • Robert Viscusi: Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors. 1986
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