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Performance Style and Gesture in Western Theatre - Couverture rigide

Dromgoole, Nicholas

 
9781840025927: Performance Style and Gesture in Western Theatre
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1840025921 ISBN 13 : 9781840025927
Editeur : Oberon Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance.

In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what it would actually have been like to watch the great plays - and the great actors - of western theatre in their own day.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Dromgoole's published work includes 'The Playwright as Rebel' (Oberon) and 'Sibley and Dowell', a portrait of one of the great dance partnerships of our time, as well as many introductions to volumes of classical and contemporary drama. For over thirty years hs was dance critic for the Sunday Telegraph and a regular contributor to other magazines and newspapers including The Times and Punch. He has lectured widely on drama and drama history and contributed to various arts broadcasts on radio and television

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Éditeur
Oberon Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840025921
ISBN 13 
9781840025927
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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