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Thomas Betterton : the greatest actor of the Restoration stage / David Roberts.
Author
Roberts, David, 1960-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description
xi, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN2598.B6 R63 2010
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Actors
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Great Britain
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Biography
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English drama
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Restoration, 1660-1700
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Betterton, Thomas 1635?-1710
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Summary note
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780521195843 ((hardback))
0521195845 ((hardback))
LCCN
2010009140
OCLC
544474656
Other standard number
40018475467
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