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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      19 February 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511770500
      9780521889674
      9780521182416
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770500
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 354 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 354 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors exercised a persistent habit of stepping out of their roles, whether scripted or not. Burwick traces the radical shifts in acting style from Garrick to Kemble and Siddons, and to Kean and Macready, adding a new dimension to understanding the shift in cultural sensibility from early to later Romantic literature. Eye-witness accounts by theatre-goers and critics attending plays at the major playhouses of London, the provinces, and on the Continent are provided, allowing readers to identify with the experience of being in the theatre during this tumultuous period.

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    'Burwick's lively academic guide delves into what it must have been like to be an actor in the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century … especially thorough in examining shifts in acting style, sieving through actors' own memoirs and diaries to reveal that some players played up their bad acting and made a virtue of it.'

    Source: whatsonstage.com

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