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Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell written by Philip H. Highfill and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The penultimate volume of the vast project begun some two decades ago, Volume 15, illustrated like its predecessors with bandw portraits and other artwork, provides information on theatre people including singer Catherine Tofts, comedian James Tokely, bearded lady and harpsichordist Barbara Van Beck, proprietor, playwright, and architect John Vanbrugh, theatrical families like the Vaughans and the husband- and-wife thespians John Baptista and Susanna Verbruggen and the dancing Vestres--Gaetan Appoline Balthazar and his illegitimate son Marie Jean Augustin, as well as a host of Wards (some related, some not). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The penultimate volume of the vast project begun some two decades ago, Volume 15, illustrated like its predecessors with bandw portraits and other artwork, provides information on theatre people including singer Catherine Tofts, comedian James Tokely, bearded lady and harpsichordist Barbara Van Beck, proprietor, playwright, and architect John Vanbrugh, theatrical families like the Vaughans and the husband- and-wife thespians John Baptista and Susanna Verbruggen and the dancing Vestres--Gaetan Appoline Balthazar and his illegitimate son Marie Jean Augustin, as well as a host of Wards (some related, some not). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.
Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History by : David Wiles
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.