Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 1

by Lisa Zunshine

Overview

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138750005
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Note on the Text, General Introduction, An Essay Towards an History of Dancing (1712), Censor (1717), An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Wilks, etc. (1732), Prompter (1735), Thomas Betterton, The History of the English Stage (1741), A Rhapsody on the Stage; or, The Art of Playing (1746), Human Physiognomy Explain’d (1747), An Essay on the Stage (1754), Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy (1755), Editorial Notes