Author: Joe F. Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An Old Stock-actor's Memories
Author: Joe F. Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Memories of an Old Actor
Author: Walter Moore Leman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Leman acted throughout post Gold Rush California and gave much detail on actors and on the theater of the time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Leman acted throughout post Gold Rush California and gave much detail on actors and on the theater of the time.
The Rise of the Victorian Actor
Author: Michael Baker
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Collier's
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Collier's Once a Week
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
English Drama, 1900-1930
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780521129473
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780521129473
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1
Author: Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
The Haunted Stage
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089376
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Uncovers the ways in which the spectator's memory informs theatrical reception
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089376
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Uncovers the ways in which the spectator's memory informs theatrical reception
The Shakespeare Association Bulletin
Author: Shakespeare Association of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes list of members, v. 1, 3-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes list of members, v. 1, 3-
Knowledge and Memory: the Real Story
Author: Robert S. Wyer, Jr.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317781007
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Narrative forms of mental representation and their influence on comprehension, communication and judgment, have rapidly become one of the main foci of research and theory in not only psychology but also other disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, and anthropology. No one has been more responsible for the awakening of interest in this area than Roger Schank and Bob Abelson. In their target article, they argue that narrative forms of mental representation, or "stories," are the basic ingredients of social knowledge that play a fundamental role in the comprehension of information conveyed in a social context, the storage of this information in memory, and the later communication of it to others. After explicating the cognitive processes that underlie the construction of narratives and their use in comprehension, memory and communication, the chapter authors consider the influence of stories on a number of more specific phenomena, including political judgment, marital relations and memory distortions that underlie errors in eyewitness testimony. The provocativeness of the target chapter is matched by that of the companion articles, each of which not only provides an important commentary on Schank and Abelson's conceptualization, but also makes an important contribution to knowledge in its own right. The diversity of perspectives reflected in these articles, whose authors include researchers in linguistics, memory and comprehension, social inference, cognitive development, social judgment, close relationships, and social ecology, testifies to the breadth of theoretical and empirical issues to which the target chapter is potentially relevant. This volume is a timely and important contribution to research and theory not only in social cognition but in many other areas as well.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317781007
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Narrative forms of mental representation and their influence on comprehension, communication and judgment, have rapidly become one of the main foci of research and theory in not only psychology but also other disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, and anthropology. No one has been more responsible for the awakening of interest in this area than Roger Schank and Bob Abelson. In their target article, they argue that narrative forms of mental representation, or "stories," are the basic ingredients of social knowledge that play a fundamental role in the comprehension of information conveyed in a social context, the storage of this information in memory, and the later communication of it to others. After explicating the cognitive processes that underlie the construction of narratives and their use in comprehension, memory and communication, the chapter authors consider the influence of stories on a number of more specific phenomena, including political judgment, marital relations and memory distortions that underlie errors in eyewitness testimony. The provocativeness of the target chapter is matched by that of the companion articles, each of which not only provides an important commentary on Schank and Abelson's conceptualization, but also makes an important contribution to knowledge in its own right. The diversity of perspectives reflected in these articles, whose authors include researchers in linguistics, memory and comprehension, social inference, cognitive development, social judgment, close relationships, and social ecology, testifies to the breadth of theoretical and empirical issues to which the target chapter is potentially relevant. This volume is a timely and important contribution to research and theory not only in social cognition but in many other areas as well.