LEADER 02971nam 2200661 450 001 9910816806903321 005 20230725055228.0 010 $a1-61148-039-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222695 035 $a(EBL)1767218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289854 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11765367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289854 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11231301 035 $a(PQKB)11189656 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1767218 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1767218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10909620 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL637740 035 $a(OCoLC)888746497 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222695 100 $a20140830h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThomas Sheridan's career and influence $ean actor in earnest /$fConrad Brunstro?m 210 1$aLanham, Maryland ;$aPlymouth, England :$cBucknell University Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 225 1 $aTransits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-06489-X 311 $a1-61148-038-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThomas 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 330 $aThis book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal and European cultural revival was the cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. His lectures on oratory provoked admiration and ridicule in roughly equal measure, yet he would have a profou 410 0$aTransits (Bucknell University) 606 $aActors$zIreland$vBiography 606 $aTheatrical managers$zIreland$vBiography 606 $aEducators$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aTheater$zIreland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aOratory$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aActors 615 0$aTheatrical managers 615 0$aEducators 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aOratory$xHistory 676 $a792.0/28092 700 $aBrunstro?m$b Conrad$f1968-$01667320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816806903321 996 $aThomas Sheridan's career and influence$94027061 997 $aUNINA