Author: Joe F. Graham
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An Old Stock-actor's Memories
Author: Joe F. Graham
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Memories of an Old Actor
Author: Walter Moore Leman
Publisher:
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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.
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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
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Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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OLD STOCK
Author: HANNAH. CAPLAN MOSCOVITCH (BEN. BARRY, CHRISTIAN.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573707803
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Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780573707803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Collier's Once a Week
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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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 Phrenological Journal and Science of Health
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Itinerant; Or, Memoirs of an Actor ...
Author: Samuel William Ryley
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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