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Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 4 collects essential primary texts on elocution, gesture and naturalness from the eighteenth century, offering cultural historians and theatre scholars direct access to influential works that shaped performance practice during this pivotal period. This carefully curated anthology brings together rare and difficult-to-find treatises that illuminate how stagecraft and acting theory evolved throughout the 1700s, providing invaluable insight into contemporary attitudes toward naturalistic performance and the science of delivery on the English stage. The volume serves as a comprehensive research resource for understanding the theoretical foundations of acting during an era when performers and theorists were actively defining what it meant to act with authenticity and skill.

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Routledge publishes this academic anthology focusing on eighteenth-century acting theory and performance history.

The collection draws together rare treatises on elocution, gesture and naturalness from 1700-1830.

Volume 4 includes difficult-to-access primary texts essential for theatre history research and cultural study.

Acting Theory and the English Stage provides scholars with original sources examining stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
01 November 2008
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03 August 2015

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