Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Garrick and his contemporaries
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An Actor's Library
Author: Nicholas D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584563624
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book collecting, bibliomania and the eighteenth-century -- Building a library -- Garrick, book culture and The Club -- Collecting Shakespeare and other English dramatists -- Book-buying in France and Italy -- Dispersal -- Appendix A. Locations of Garrick's books -- Appendix B. Books to which Garrick subscribed -- Appendix C. Books addressed/dedicated to Garrick -- Appendix D. Lots purchased by Thomas Thorpe at the 1823 sale -- Appendix E. Garrick books formerly belonging to George Frederick Beltz -- Appendix F. Carrington Garrick's books
David Garrick
Author: Alan KendallDavid Garrick and His Contemporaries
Author: Brander MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
David Garrick and His Contemporaries
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie RitchiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108693245
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theatre's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theatre history and media studies.
Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries
Author: John Heneage JessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Harriman-SmithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350171980
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practice and theories circulating three hundred years ago can generate new ways of studying and performing plays of all kinds in the present. Eight short essays – on emotions, cultivation, character, voice, action, company, audience, and reflection – provide two things: a vivid introduction to the practice and ideas of the eighteenth-century stage, and the story of how these past practices and ideas were used in collaborative workshops around the UK to create new rehearsal exercises. Designed to work alone or in combination, these exercises are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today. Marrying academic and professional theatre expertise, this book ranges through a vast archive of writing about acting, from private letters and battered promptbooks, through to philosophical treatises and celebrity biographies. The exercises, stories, and ideas shared here capture the strangeness of this material – and sometimes its surprising familiarity, as questions asked of actors then seem to anticipate those questions we ask now. A truly unique offering, What would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century offers a fascinating deep-dive into an important time in theatre history to illuminate practices and processes today.
Author: William Tegg