ABSTRACT

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

chapter |32 pages

Theatrical Examiner

chapter |174 pages

Thomas Wilkes, A General View of the Stage

chapter |24 pages

Robert Lloyd, The Actor