The English Actor

From Medieval to Modern

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The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting – deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays – through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance to modern methods that followed the advent of film and television. The biographies of the most notable and celebrated actors are also explored, right up to the present day. In this book, Ackroyd gives us an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted – and how audiences have responded – since the medieval period, and what we mean by the ‘magic of the stage’.
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Authors:
Ackroyd, Peter
Year Published:
2023
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781789146998
Number of Pages:
416
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
01/03/2023
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Language:
English
SKU:
9781789146998

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