03004nam 2200673 450 991046544790332120200520144314.01-61148-039-6(CKB)3710000000222695(EBL)1767218(SSID)ssj0001289854(PQKBManifestationID)11765367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289854(PQKBWorkID)11231301(PQKB)11189656(MiAaPQ)EBC1767218(Au-PeEL)EBL1767218(CaPaEBR)ebr10909620(CaONFJC)MIL637740(OCoLC)888746497(EXLCZ)99371000000022269520140830h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThomas Sheridan's career and influence an actor in earnest /Conrad BrunströmLanham, Maryland ;Plymouth, England :Bucknell University Press,2011.©20111 online resource (169 p.)Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850Description based upon print version of record.1-322-06489-X 1-61148-038-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 profouTransits (Bucknell University)ActorsIrelandBiographyTheatrical managersIrelandBiographyEducatorsEnglandBiographyTheaterIrelandHistory18th centuryOratoryHistory18th centuryElectronic books.ActorsTheatrical managersEducatorsTheaterHistoryOratoryHistory792.0/28092Brunström Conrad1968-976477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465447903321Thomas Sheridan's career and influence2224410UNINA