On Actors And Acting

by Peter Thomson and Peter Thomson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859897427
• ISBN13: 9780859897426
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"