An essay on the art of acting : in which, the dramatic passions are properly defined and described, with applications of the rules peculiar to each, and selected passages for practice. The Whole SO Treated AS To Afford AN Actor, OR Speaker, Easy Principles For Acquiring A Power To Please AN Audience, And To Give The Intelligent Reader The Clearest Idea Of A Judicious Theatrical Performer. By the late A. Hill, esq; now first revised, and separately published.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

Acting.

Acting--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

53 pages, 1 unnumbered page,2 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Dixwell, No. 148, St. Martin's Lane, near Charing Cross, [1779]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Not to be confused with his poem 'The art of acting'.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Publication date from MH-H.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling And Six-Pence.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N1843.

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