Lives of the Most Celebrated Actors and Actresses
Author : Thomas Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Actors
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Author : Thomas Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Actors
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Author :
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Bibliographical literature
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Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Drama
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Author : Detroit Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040128793
Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
Author : Detroit Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Detroit Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1626 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317398920
Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.
Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317399099
Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.