Michael Baker

The Rise of the Victorian Actor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138936584
• ISBN-10: 1138936588
• Artikelnr.: 48652973

Autorenporträt

Baker, Michael

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology. Introduction 1. The Stage and the Professions 2. Actors and
Ethics 3. The Actor's Community 4. The Decline of the Actor's Community 5.
The Position of the Actress 6. Working Conditions 7. Establishing a
Profession 8. The Actor Arrives. Appedix 1: Tables Showing the Principal
Biographical Details of Three Generations of Actors and Actresses who
Appeared on the Stage in the Period 1830-90. Appendix 2: Family Trees of
Some Typical Victorian Theatrical Dynasties. Appendix 3: Increase Between
Censuses in the Recorded Numbers of Actors and Actresses in England and
Wales, 1841-91