Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107310512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death.
Thomas Betterton
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107310512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107310512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death.
Thomas Betterton
Author: Robert William Lowe
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ...
Author: Thomas Betterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
“Their Majesties' Servants.” Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edward Kean. Actors-Authors-Audiences
The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton
Thomas Betterton, Dramatist
Author: Frederick Franklin Seely
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton
Author: Charles Gildon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429602901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Originally compiled and published in 1970, this volume contains the full text of The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, written in 1710. For Charles Gildon, the text is little more than a skeleton upon which, as a dramatic critic, he might drape a full consideration of ‘the action and utterance of the stage,’ and so, the technique of acting and theatrical oratory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429602901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Originally compiled and published in 1970, this volume contains the full text of The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, written in 1710. For Charles Gildon, the text is little more than a skeleton upon which, as a dramatic critic, he might drape a full consideration of ‘the action and utterance of the stage,’ and so, the technique of acting and theatrical oratory.
The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ...
Author: Thomas Betterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Thomas Betterton
Author: Robert William Lowe
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description