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European theatre performance practice, 1750-1900
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- Creator
- edited by Jim Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Farnham, England : Ashgate, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 514 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1409411982, 9781409411987
- OCLC
- ocn822227414
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Part I. Acting and Performance: Nature to advantage dressed: eighteenth-century acting / Alan S. Downer; Vitalism and the crisis of sensibility / Joseph R. Roach; Garrick, the ghost and the machine / Joseph R. Roach; The performance practice of acting: the eighteenth century part I: ensemble acting / Dene Barnett; The dangers of the new sensibilities in eighteenth century German acting / Gloria Flaherty; ’Reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning’: challenging the foundations of Romantic acting theory / Tracy C. Davis; Researching the acting of French melodrama, 1800-1830 / Gabrielle Hyslop; The training of actors at the Paris Conservatoire during the nineteenth century / F.W.J. Hemmings; Players and painted stage: nineteenth century acting / Alan S. Downer; On natural acting / George Henry Lewes -- Part II. Staging, Scenery and Lighting: Lighting at the King’s Theatre / Haymarket, 1780-82 / Judith Milhous; Appendix A. Pantomime trickwork / David Mayer; The German stage in the nineteenth century / Brigitte Schatzky; Gas man’s duties. Lighting the rehearsal. Exterior lighting. Pilot lights and electrical ignition. Rehearsing the lighting / Terence Rees; The modern theatre - the stage / M.J. Moynet (translated and augmented by Allan S. Jackson with M. Glen Wilson); Professor Pepper’s ghost / George Speaight; Erasing the spectator: observations on nineteenth century lighting / Victor Emeljanow; Art in the theatre: I - scenery / William Telbin; Art in the theatre: the painting of scenery / William Telbin; Art in the theatre: spectacle / Augustus Harris; From political to cultural despotism: the nature of the Saxe-Meiningen aesthetic / John Osborne -- Part III. Audiences: From courts to consumers: theater publics / James Van Horn Melton; Tears and the new attentiveness / James H. Johnson; Working-class audiences / F.W.J. Hemmings; The audiences of the Britannia Theatre / Hoxton / Clive Barker; New views on cheap theatres: reconstructing the nineteenth-century theatre audience / Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow