260 records matched your query
02854aam a22003494a 4500 001 3AD5558C207511E0B4E88B876AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110115010055 008 100304s2010 enkab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2010009140 020 $a 0521195845 (hardback) 020 $a 9780521195843 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)544474656 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d CDX $d C#P $d UKM $d BWX $d YDXCP $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PN2598.B6 $b R63 2010 082 00 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Roberts, David, $d 1960- 245 1 $a Thomas Betterton : $b the greatest actor of the Restoration stage / $c David Roberts. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2010. 300 $a xi, 258 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 24 cm. 505 0 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p.[232]-249) and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Betterton, Thomas, $d 1635?-1710. 650 0 $a Actors $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a English drama $y Restoration, 1660-1700. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180103031750.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20110115010659.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AD5558C207511E0B4E88B876AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search