Acting Theory and the English Stage 1700-1830 Volume 3

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination. Dramatic Genius (1770), The Theatrical Review; or New Companion to the Play-House (1772), Macaroni (1773), The Sentimental Spouter; or, Young Actor’s Companion (1774), The Elements of Dramatic Criticism (1775), The Siddoniad … a Characteristical and Critical Poem (1784), The Modern Stage Exemplified, in an Epistle to a Young Actor (1788), New Thespian Oracle Containing Original Strictures on Oratory and Acting (1791), The New Spouter’s Companion (1792), The Secret History of the Green-Room: Containing Authentic and Entertaining Memoirs of the Actors and Actresses in the Three Theatres Royal (1795), Dramatic Censor or, Weekly Theatrical Report (1800), Editorial Notes