Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830
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Rating | : | 4.29 (616 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1138665258 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 1808 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-08-23 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded
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