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The Rise of the Victorian Actor

Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399102
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Victorian Actor written by Michael Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.

The Rise of the Victorian Actor

Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399099
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Victorian Actor written by Michael Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.

The Rise of the Victorian Actor

Author : Michael Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Victorian Actor written by Michael Baker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sir Henry Irving

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855918
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Sir Henry Irving written by Jeffrey Richards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-01-20 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected and uplifting art form. This work gives an account of Irving and his impact on the Victorian theatre and life.

Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre

Author : Madeleine Bingham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317386124
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre written by Madeleine Bingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317398920
Total Pages : 1626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.

The Life of William Terriss, Actor (1898)

Author : Arthur J. Smythe
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104917012
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Life of William Terriss, Actor (1898) written by Arthur J. Smythe and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review

Author : Donald Mullin
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review written by Donald Mullin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1983-10-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and scholarly survey by Donald Mullin, Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review, compiles extensive critical assessments by contemporary reviewers of some 250 British and American players who performed between 1837 and 1901. Backstage

Henry Irving, the Greatest Victorian Actor

Author : Madeleine Bingham (Baroness Clanmorris.)
Publisher : New York : Stein and Day
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving, the Greatest Victorian Actor written by Madeleine Bingham (Baroness Clanmorris.) and published by New York : Stein and Day. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry Irving

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317218795
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. He was also the director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments and as the manager of the Lyceum theatre, he controlled every aspect of the performance. First published in 2008, this collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving’s art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of theatre.

Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920

Author : Benjamin McArthur
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877457107
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 written by Benjamin McArthur and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also the only study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.

Elizabeth Robins

Author : Angela V John
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496468
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Robins written by Angela V John and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides a study of the social culture surrounding a woman who lived a life in the spotlight.

Shakespeare Survey

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523707
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Kenneth Muir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Theatre in the Victorian Age

Author : Michael Richard Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521343510
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Theatre in the Victorian Age written by Michael Richard Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines all major aspects of theater practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period. Michael Booth's comprehensive survey explores the social and cultural context of the theater including theater management, the audience, architecture and production methods, acting and the job of the actor, as well as the drama itself. Within this framework, Booth discusses such topics as the effect on theater of population growth and the spread of the railway system, the typical organization of a Victorian theater company, the contribution to theater of several important actor-managers, the use of stage machinery and lighting instruments, and the stock company and rehearsal system. The volume also includes a chapter on sources, numerous previously unpublished illustrations, and a chronology. The result is a lively and informative account of the diversity, energy, and color of the Victorian stage, the whole period comprising one of the most fascinating and vigorous eras in the history of the English theater.

Victorian Shakespeare

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504140
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Shakespeare written by Gail Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare provided the Victorians with ways of thinking about the authority of the past, about the emergence of a new mass culture, about the relations between artistic and industrial production, about the nature of creativity, about racial and sexual difference, and about individual and national identity.

I Hope I Don't Intrude

Author : David Vincent
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191038148
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Hope I Don't Intrude written by David Vincent and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.

Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre

Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008238
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre written by Michael R. Booth and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of the prefaces from the author's "English plays of the nineteenth century" (5 vols. ; London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969-1976) provides an introduction to the critical interpretations of most genres of English drama.