Acting Theory and the English Stage 1700-1830 Volume 4

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. The Theatrical Speaker; Christian Augustus Gottlieb Goede, The Stranger in England; Thomas Gilliland, The Dramatic Mirror; [David Lyddal], The Prompter, or Cursory Hints to Young Actors: A Didactic Poem; The Thespian Preceptor; J. M. Williams, The Dramatic Censor