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Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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Book | AUM Main Library | 792.028092 R633 (Browse Shelf) | Available | JBC/2012/1369 |
792.02807073 P769The politics of American actor training / | 792.0280820944 S535Women on the stage in early modern France : | 792.02809 C351The Cambridge companion to the actress / | 792.028092 R633Thomas Betterton : | 792.071 F624Starting drama teaching / | 792.071 P451AS drama and theatre studies : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Look my lord, it comes: Betterton's Hamlet -- An obstinately shadowy Titan: Betterton in biography -- An actor of London: early years, 1635-1659 -- A walk in the park: Betterton and the scene of comedy -- In the Duke's Company, 1660-1663 -- Equal with the highest: Thomas Betterton and Henry Harris, 1663-1668 -- Actor management: running the Duke's Company -- In the company of the Duke: Betterton and Catholic politics in the 1670s -- Union: Betterton and theatrical monopoly, 1682-1695 -- Back to the future: breakaway to semi-retirement -- Books and pictures: Betterton and the Chandos portrait.
"Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death"--
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