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actor-manager system
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Eugene Aram
Henry Irving
Immanent Physicality
Incidental Music
Lyceum
Lyceum Theatre
Madame Sans Gene
Manager
Merchant Of Venice
Merchant ofVenice
Mrs Rumball
nineteenth-century British drama
performance studies
Piano Transcription
Play Cd Track
psychological character portrayal analysis
Richard III
Saxe Meiningen Company
Serment Du Jeu De Paume
Shaw's View
Shylock's House
Smallhythe Place
stagecraft techniques
Sullivan's Incidental Music
Sullivan's Music
Sullivan's Overture
Theatre
Victorian
Victorian theatre history
William Telbin
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138619920
- Weight: 326g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.
Richard Foulkes
