Actors and Actresses by Different Writers, Compiled from Various Magazines
Author : E T. Gilbert
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : E T. Gilbert
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Thomas Marshall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2022-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375119143
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Author : Stanley Jones
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Acting
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Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Page : 736 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Literature
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Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809315253
Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.
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Page : 872 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Literature
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Author : Thomas Low Nichols
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Social Science
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A physician makes observations on American life for an English audience. A memoir of the doctor, born in New Hampshire, which leads him toward commentary on American politics, slavery, education, and morality.
Author : Rosemary Malague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136503900
'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?' An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses "the Method" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches. This book confronts the sexism that still exists in actor training and exposes the gender biases embedded within the Method itself. Its in-depth examination of these Stanislavskian techniques seeks to reclaim Method acting from its patriarchal practices and to empower women who act. 'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague’s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares... This book will be useful to all scholars and practitioners determined to make gender equity central to how they hone their craft and their thinking.' – Jill Dolan, Princeton University