Thomas Betterton

Thomas Betterton
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781107310513
ISBN-13 : 1107310512
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Book Synopsis Thomas Betterton by : David Roberts

Download or read book Thomas Betterton written by David Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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