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



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Autore: Brunström Conrad <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Thomas Sheridan's career and influence : an actor in earnest / / Conrad Brunström Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2011
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina: 792.0/28092
Soggetto topico: Actors - Ireland
Theatrical managers - Ireland
Educators - England
Theater - Ireland - History - 18th century
Oratory - History - 18th century
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
Titolo autorizzato: Thomas Sheridan's career and influence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61148-039-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816806903321
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Serie: Transits (Bucknell University)