Moira Goff

The Incomparable Hester Santlow (eBook, PDF)

A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the first full-length account of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff traces this remarkable woman's career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Making extensive use of archival resources, Goff demonstrates Santlow's unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, and examines Santlow's fascinating personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351887816
• Artikelnr.: 47954473

Autorenporträt

Moira Goff researches, reconstructs and performs European theatre and ballroom dancing of the early eighteenth century. She is also a curator of rare books at the British Library, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The young dancer, 1694?-1709
Dancer and actress, 1709-1712
James Craggs
Theatre rivalries, 1713-1715
'Dramatic entertainments of dancing', 1715-1719
Barton Booth
Business as usual, 1719-1723
Mimes and pantomimes, 1723-1728
'The incomparable Mrs Booth', 1728-1733
'Happy beyond expression', 1733-1773
Appendix: glossary of 18th-century dance terms
Bibliography
Index.