Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 280 pages
- Published by: Kessinger Publishing June 30, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1417921706
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1417921706
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Review
“A classic example of acting criticism.recommended to all theatre collections.”–
Library Journal
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Product Description
1875. This volume contains a collection of articles written by Lewes at different periods, but with the purpose of directing attention not simply to the fact that Acting is an Art, but that, like all other Arts, it is obstructed by a mass of unsystemised opinion, calling itself criticism. Contents: Edmund Kean; Charles Kean; Rachel; Macready; Farren; Charles Mathews; Frederic Lemaitre; The two Keeleys; Shakespeare as Actor and Critic; On Natural Acting; Foreign Actors on our Stage; The Drama in Paris. 1865; The Drama in Germany. 1867; The Drama in Spain. 1867; and First Impressions of Salvini. 1875. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.