ABSTRACT
In this contribution to Thomas Campbell's Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834), Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) provides a glimpse of her working method and her theory of acting. In the process, she analyzes Shakespearean scripts from the inside out as it were. Of particular importance is her attempt to build a syncretic understanding of a role, thus implying that all elements of a performance should organically contribute to an overall sense of the work.
