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02127aam a2200325 i 4500 001 696A687ADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 230329s2023 enk b 001 0deng d 010 $a bl2023013526 020 $a 1789146992 020 $a 9781789146998 040 $a IMmBT $b eng $c IMmBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a PN2581 $b .A25 2023 082 04 $2 23/eng/20230329 100 1 $a Ackroyd, Peter, $d 1949- $e author $9 8085 245 14 $a THE ENGLISH ACTOR : $b FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN / $c Peter Ackroyd. 264 1 $a London : $b Reaktion Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 412 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a 2023/04/12 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-389) and index. 520 $a "he English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting-deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays-through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance, to modern methods following the advent of film and television. Across centuries and media, The English Actor also explores the biographies of the most notable and celebrated British actors.From the first woman actor on the English stage, Margaret Hughes, who played Desdemona in 1660; to luminaries like Laurence Olivier, Peter O'Toole, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Helen Mirren; to contemporary multihyphenates like Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, Sophie Okonedo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ackroyd gives all fans of the theater an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted, how audiences have responded, and what we mean by the magic of the stage"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Theater $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Acting $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Actors $z Great Britain $v Biography. $9 80495 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502014024.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011756.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230418010906.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=696A687ADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search