Author: Theophilus CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the Present Time
Author: Theophilus CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the present time interspersed with a general history of the stage ... Part I. Containing an "Introduction to the General Work" and the life of Barton Booth. To which is prefixed a familiar epistle from Mr. Theophilus Cibber to Mr. William Warburton criticizing the latter's edition of Pope's works
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 9780371435625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great-Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the Present Time, Interspersed with a General History of the Stage
Author: Theophilus CibberWhat 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.
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Theophilus CibberEuropean Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900
Author: Jim DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351938304
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice from 1750 to 1900. The selected topics focus on acting and performance, staging (including set design and lighting), and audiences, and are approached with a broad perspective as well as with in-depth, focussed analysis. The volume captures the rich, dynamic and variegated nature of European theatre throughout the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and provides a carefully selected body of significant texts on this important period of theatre history.
The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis & Son (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography
Author: Amanda Weldy BoydPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.