On actors and acting / Peter Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Peter, 1938-

Series:

Exeter performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--History.

Acting.

History.

Actors--Great Britain--History.

Actors.

Theater--Great Britain--History.

Theater.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000.

Summary:

This is a book for theater lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theater past and present. The book is divided into three sections. The first group of essays addresses Elizabethan theater practice; the second, themes, episodes, and contemporary taste in eighteenth and nineteenth century England, and the third, twentieth-century performances of Shakespeare at Stratford in the 1970s and in the New Globe as the new century begins.

The extensive cast of actors discussed includes Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp, David Garrick, Samuel Foote, Richard and Mary Ann Yates, Thomas Weston, John Kemble, Edmund Kean, Frederick Robson, Henry lrving, lan Richardson, and Ben Kingsley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0859896714

OCLC:

44786156