Acting Theory and the English Stage 1700-1830 Volume 2

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. Theatrical Examiner; The Theatrical Review, for the Year 1757 and Beginning of 1758; Thomas Wilkes, A General View of the Stage; Robert Lloyd, The Actor; Theatrical Review: or, Annals of the Drama