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Extraordinary actors : essays on popular performers : studies in honour of Peter Thomson / edited by Jane Milling and Martin Banham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actors--History.
- Actors.
- Actors--Great Britain--History.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- History.
- Popular culture--History.
- Popular culture.
- Thomson, Peter, 1938-.
- Thomson, Peter.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Section 1 The Idea of Acting
- 1 Richard Burbage: A Dangerous Actor / Alexander Leggatt 8
- 2 Thomas Betterton and the Art of Acting / Jane Milling 21
- 3 Tom and Jerry in Russia: Popular Imagery of the Commedia dell'arte from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great / Laurence Senelick 36
- Section 2 The Celebrated Actor as Cultural Icon
- 4 'Acting and the Austere Joys of Motherhood': Sarah Siddons Performs Maternity / Jan McDonald 57
- 5 The British Actor Invasion of the Early American Stage / Don B. Wilmeth 71
- 6 The Brothers Fay: The Role of the Actors in the Early Abbey Theatre / Ger Fitzgibbon 83
- 7 Gertie Millar and the 'Rules for Actresses and Vicars' Wives' / Viv Gardner 97
- Section 3 Extraordinary Acting for Popular Audiences
- 8 Lena Ashwell and her Players: Popular Performers on Extraordinary Stages / Christine Dymkowski 120
- 9 George Formby and the Northern Sublime / Baz Kershaw 135
- 10 Leo Fuchs, Yiddish Vaudevillian / Joel Schechter 150
- 11 Peter Lorre (and his Friend Bert Brecht): Entfremdung in Hollywood? / Christopher McCullough 164
- 12 A Star in Two Halves: The Democratic Comedy of Morecambe and Wise / Richard Boon 176
- 13 Playing on the Front Foot: Actors and Audience in British Popular Theatre, 1970-1990 / Colin Chambers, Maggie Steed 191
- 14 Working Wonders: Mark Rylance at the New Globe / Martin White 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0859897354
- OCLC:
- 52531103
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