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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465447903321

Autore

Brunström Conrad <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61148-039-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Disciplina

792.0/28092

Soggetti

Actors - Ireland

Theatrical managers - Ireland

Educators - England

Theater - Ireland - History - 18th century

Oratory - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thomas Sheridan''s Career And Influence; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 An Earnest Life; 3 An Actor in Charge: The (Mis?)Management of the Smock Alley Theatre, and the Scandal of Siddonolatory; 4 Education, Rhetoric, and the Rise and Fall of Empires and Republics; 5 An Actor for Ireland; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 and European cultural revival was the cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. His lectures on oratory provoked admiration and ridicule in roughly equal measure, yet he would have a profou



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Record Nr.

UNISA996395399103316

Autore

Ferrarius Philippus <d. 1626.>

Titolo

Lexicon geographicum [[electronic resource] ] : in quo universi orbis oppida, urbes, regiones, provinciæ, regna, emporia, academiæ, metropoles, fontes, flumina, & maria antiquis recentibusque nominibus appellata, suisque distantiis descripta recensentur; in duas partes divisum: in priori quarum antiqua nomina recentibus, in altera recentia antiquis præponuntur. Opus perquam utile, & necessarium omnibus humaniorum literarum professoribus, historicis, poetis, & antiquariis. / / Authore Fr. Philippo Ferrario Alexandrino, ordinis servorum, S.T.D. atque in Ticinensi Academia Regio Mathematices professore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini, : ex officina Rogeri Danielis, anno Domini M DC LVII. [1657]

Edizione

[Editio nova, multo quam prior accuratior]

Descrizione fisica

[1]+ leaves

Soggetti

Geography - Dictionaries

Title pages17th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Roman numeral date is made with turned C's.

Device on t.p. not found in McK.

Fragment: t.p. only.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018