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This spouse is designed for readers drawn to the construction, construction and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater. An advent surveying the old interval of the theater is via an essay contextualizing it in the tradition as a complete. Succeeding chapters study functionality and creation, (including track, actors, stagecraft and audience), performs and playwriting and problems with category and gender. sorts of performances (such as comedy, farce, melodrama) and the economics of the theater also are analyzed.

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Killed – herself? Yes – yes. So, everybody will say. But I know – I helped to kill her. [She beats her breast] If I had only been merciful! She faints upon the ottoman. He pauses for a moment irresolutely – then he goes to the door, opens it, and stands looking out. c u rta i n 24 Behind the intense engagement of an audience’s emotions invoked by such a scene, crafted by Pinero for maximum climactic effect, lies a tradition of effective acting method as old as the working habits of the strolling players who arrive in Shakespeare’s Elsinore at a propitious moment.

In her memoir Records of a Girlhood (1879) Kemble reveals what in her opinion lay behind O’Neill’s remarkable ability – within the range of the much-besieged, lachrymose heroines that were her specialty – to cry “buckets full” of tears. O’Neill’s copious weeping, Kemble points out, occurred unaccompanied by the grimaces or other facial distortion that usually highlights the travails of stage heroines. ” To be sure, by her own account deficiency of feeling was something of which Fanny Kemble herself could never have been accused.

722. 21. W. S. Gilbert, Comedy and Tragedy, in Original Plays, 3rd series (London: Chatto & Windus, 1895), p. 5. See Tracy C. ), Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England), pp. 117–40. 22. A. E. W. Mason, George Alexander & the St. James’ Theatre (London: Macmillan, 1935), pp. 8, 12, 16; J. B. Booth, London Town (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929), p. 87. 23. See Mason, Alexander, pp. ) with Ruth Berggren, Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St.

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