Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century

Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Glen McGillivray
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2023-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031228995

This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the history of emotions, it uses practice theory to challenge the view that emotional interactions between actors and audiences were governed by empathy. It carefully works through how actors communicated emotions through their voices, faces and gestures, how audiences appraised these performances, and mobilised and regulated their own emotional responses. Crucially, this book reveals how theatre spaces mediated the emotional practices of audiences and actors alike. It examines how their public and frequently political interactions were enabled by these spaces.

Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland
Author: Stanley Thomas Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1917
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: