Thomas Sheridan's career and influence : an actor in earnest /

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This book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brunström, Conrad, 1968-
Autor Corporativo: Bucknell University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2011.
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
Temas:
Sheridan, Thomas, > 1719-1788.
Sheridan, Thomas, > 1719-1788
1700-1799
Actors > Ireland > Biography.
Theatrical managers > Ireland > Biography.
Educators > England > Biography.
Theater > Ireland > History > 18th century.
Oratory > History > 18th century.
Acteurs > Irlande > Biographies.
Producteurs et metteurs en scène de théâtre > Irlande > Biographies.
Éducateurs > Angleterre > Biographies.
Théâtre > Irlande > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Art oratoire > Histoire > 18e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Actors
Educators
Oratory
Theater
Theatrical managers
England
Ireland
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • An earnest life
  • An actor in charge : the (mis?)management of the Smock Alley Theatre, and the scandal of siddonolatory
  • Education, rhetoric, and the rise and fall of empires and republics
  • An actor for Ireland
  • Conclusion.

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