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Steven Berkoff Influences

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Many people influenced Steven Berkoff, in particular he admired Laurence Olivier which is apparent from his one-man show Shakespeare’s Villains. Laurence Olivier died in 1989 and was possibly the greatest theatre actor in Britain; this is one of the main reasons why Berkoff was influenced by his work. Another person who influenced Berkoff was Edmund Kean who berkoff researched and new about. Edmund Keen was about during the nineteenth century and had a reasonably same upbringing to Berkoff. Edmund Kean was very good at combining passion with melodrama and in so was a popular Shakespeare presenter of his era. An example of this is in 2006, Berkoff paid homage to Edmund Kean. He did this by playing one of Edmund Kean’s most famous roles. He performed
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