Author: William TinsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
Author: William TinsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Random Recollections of Albany
Author: Gorham A. WorthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Random Recollections of the House of Commons
Author: James GrantRandom Recollections of an Eton Life
Author: Amator EtonæRandom Recollections of Albany
Author: Gorham A. WorthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Twenty Years Ago
Author: Edmund DowneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches
Author: Memories of Famous Trials
Author: Evelyn Henry Villebois BurnabyPublisher: London, Sisley's
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Rise of the Victorian Actor
Author: Michael BakerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317399102
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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.
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of New York, Containing the Additions Made to August, 1856
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-YorkPublisher:
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Category : Merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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