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This comprehensive volume gathers rare and difficult-to-access treatises on eighteenth-century elocution, gesture, and naturalness that shaped English theatrical practice. Drawing from the period's most influential texts on stagecraft and performance theory, the book offers cultural historians and theatre scholars essential primary sources for understanding how actors, directors and theorists conceptualised the craft during 1700-1830. Routledge's collection serves as a crucial reference for anyone examining the evolution of acting techniques, the science behind performance, and the philosophical underpinnings of English stage practice in this transformative era. The volume reveals how eighteenth-century imagination understood stagecraft as both art and methodology, connecting performance theory to broader cultural concerns about naturalism, expression and dramatic effect.

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Routledge edition compiles rare eighteenth-century treatises on acting theory that are otherwise difficult to locate in single volumes.

Covers foundational topics including elocution, gesture and naturalness central to 1700-1830 English theatrical practice.

Serves cultural historians and theatre scholars seeking primary sources on stagecraft from the period's most influential theoretical texts.

Explores how the English stage conceptualised acting methodology during a crucial era of dramatic and performance evolution.

Provides essential reference material for understanding the philosophical and practical foundations of Georgian and Regency-era acting techniques.

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Release Date
01 November 2008
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