On Actors And Acting (Exeter Performance Studies) - Softcover

Thomson, Prof. Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859897427 ISBN 13: 9780859897426

Publisher: University of Exeter, 2002

Synopsis

This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present.
The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre practice, the second highlights themes, episodes and contemporary taste in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England, and the third focuses on twentieth-century performances of Shakespeare at Stratford in the 1970s and in the New Globe as the new century begins.

The extensive cast of actors discussed includes Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp, David Garrick, Samuel Foote, Richard and Mary Ann Yates, Thomas Weston, John Kemble, Edmund Kean, Frederick Robson, Henry Irving, Ian Richardson and Ben Kingsley.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Thomson is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter and a series editor for the Performance Studies series from UEP.

Having qualified as a Russian interpreter during his national service, he read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, was a Canada Council scholar at the University of Toronto, a lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester and at University College, Swansea before becoming Professor of Drama at Exeter.

He is author and editor of numerous books including The Everyman Companion to the Theatre (Dent, 1985), Shakespeare's Theatre (Routledge, revised edition 1992), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge, 1994), Shakespeare's Professional Career (Cambridge, new edition 1999) and On Actors and Acting (UEP, 2000).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859897427
• ISBN 13: 9780859897426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224