Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage - 9780367445096

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Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English StageAuthor(s): Kenneth R. Richards, Peter Thomson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367445096, 978-0367445096\nSynopsis\nThe eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. First published in 1972, the eleven papers collected in The Eighteenth-Century English Stage, originally read at a Manchester University Symposium in July 1971, follow this historical emphasis. Two papers are centred on dramatists, four on actors, three on managers, and two on designers.\n\nMalcolm Kelsall analyses Steeles debt to Terence, using his classical scholarship as illuminatingly as Edgar Roberts uses his musical scholarship in writing about the songs in Fieldings plays. George Taylor compares and evaluates a number of theories of acting, and spe.