Author: Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher: London : Champan and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Henry Irving
Author: Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher: London : Champan and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: London : Champan and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre
Author: Madeleine Bingham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317386116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Originally published in 1978. Henry Irving achieved an astounding success in Britain and America as an actor; yet he lacked good looks, had spindly legs, and did not have a good voice. He said so himself. Today Irving is regarded as the archetype of the old-time actor, but in his own time he was regarded as a great theatrical innovator. Even Bernard Shaw, who attacked him pitilessly, even unto death, called him ‘modern’ when he first saw him act. Irving, the man, with his tenacious, obsessive talent, his human limitations and weaknesses, and his ephemeral glory is brought most sympathetically to life in this biography. It is written from contemporary sources, and from criticisms, lampoons, caricatures and gossip columns. If Irving reflected certain aspects of his age, this book underlines the Victorian ethic to which he appealed and the backcloths against which it was set – the extraordinary lavishness of the Lyceum productions and the incredible extravagance of social entertaining. Not the least absorbing aspect of this biography is the fascinating account of the long partnership between Irving and Ellen Terry, still in many respects an enigmatic one, but here portrayed with lively insight into character combined with understanding and deep knowledge of the social and theatrical context of the Victorian age.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317386116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Originally published in 1978. Henry Irving achieved an astounding success in Britain and America as an actor; yet he lacked good looks, had spindly legs, and did not have a good voice. He said so himself. Today Irving is regarded as the archetype of the old-time actor, but in his own time he was regarded as a great theatrical innovator. Even Bernard Shaw, who attacked him pitilessly, even unto death, called him ‘modern’ when he first saw him act. Irving, the man, with his tenacious, obsessive talent, his human limitations and weaknesses, and his ephemeral glory is brought most sympathetically to life in this biography. It is written from contemporary sources, and from criticisms, lampoons, caricatures and gossip columns. If Irving reflected certain aspects of his age, this book underlines the Victorian ethic to which he appealed and the backcloths against which it was set – the extraordinary lavishness of the Lyceum productions and the incredible extravagance of social entertaining. Not the least absorbing aspect of this biography is the fascinating account of the long partnership between Irving and Ellen Terry, still in many respects an enigmatic one, but here portrayed with lively insight into character combined with understanding and deep knowledge of the social and theatrical context of the Victorian age.
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Henry Irving, a record of twenty years at the Lyceum
Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1774
Book Description
The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The New International Encyclop©Œdia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900
Author: Jim Davis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351938290
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351938290
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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.
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Author: Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.