| On Actors And Acting Contributor(s): Thomson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0859897427 ISBN-13: 9780859897426 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2002 Annotation: This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre practice, the second highlights themes, episodes and contemporary taste in the 18th and 19th centuries in England, and the third focuses on 20th century performances of Shakespeare at Stratford in the 1970s and in the New Globe as the new century begins. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning |
| Dewey: 792.028 |
| LCCN: 2004444105 |
| Series: Exeter Performance Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.14" W x 8.92" (0.85 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre practice, the second highlights themes, episodes and contemporary taste in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England, and the third focuses on twentieth-century performances of Shakespeare at Stratford in the 1970s and in the New Globe as the new century begins. The extensive cast of actors discussed includes Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp, David Garrick, Samuel Foote, Richard and Mary Ann Yates, Thomas Weston, John Kemble, Edmund Kean, Frederick Robson, Henry Irving, Ian Richardson and Ben Kingsley. |