1st Edition

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 4

By Lisa Zunshine Copyright 2008
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

1808 Pages
by Routledge

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.

The Theatrical Speaker; Christian Augustus Gottlieb Goede, The Stranger in England; Thomas Gilliland, The Dramatic Mirror; [David Lyddal], The Prompter, or Cursory Hints to Young Actors: A Didactic Poem; The Thespian Preceptor; J. M. Williams, The Dramatic Censor

Biography

Lisa Zunshine