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Extraordinary Actors - Essays on Popular Performers (Hardcover, New)
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Extraordinary Actors - Essays on Popular Performers (Hardcover, New)
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Dangerous, outrageous, comic and committed, the extraordinary
performers collected here have altered the history of popular
entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their
story told, others are familiar figures. The essays explore what
made these performers extraordinary: how they were trained, how
they practised their art, how they were received, celebrated,
satirised and mythologised. From the explosive acting of Richard
Burbage to the dislocating quirkiness of Peter Lorre, from the
dangerous satire of commedia dell'arte troupes in Russia to the
bittersweet collaboration of Morecambe and Wise, this volume
explores what made these actors popular. Each contributor has taken
care to set the performer and their work in cultural context, so
that the collection as a whole charts the changing relationship
between acting and popular culture over the last four hundred
years. Part One examines seventeenth and eighteenth century
performers, as they built a sense of the excitement and possibility
of theatre with audiences in Britain and Europe. The idea of
acting, its art and popular practice was being formed during this
period. Part Two explores nineteenth-century popular performers who
became cultural icons and developed popular performance that
contributed to the regeneration of national identity. Part Three
looks at twentieth-century performers whose acting continued to
reach popular audiences in remarkable ways, across national
boundaries, as the acting industry underwent transformation in the
face of technological change This is a unique collection of essays
on performers such as Richard Burbage, Sarah Siddons, Peter Lorre,
George Formby, Laurel and Hardy, and Morecombe andWise. It provides
an outstanding selection of contributors: Richard Boon, Colin
Chambers, Chris Dymkowski, Ger Fitzgibbon, Viv Gardner, Baz
Kershaw, Alexander Leggatt, Chris McCullough, Jan McDonald, Joel
Schechter, Laurence Senelick, Martin White, and Don Wilmeth.
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