The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing, Interspersed with Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Remarks on Plays, and Occasional Observations on AudiencesB. Blom, 1971 - 326 páginas Thoughts on acting interspersed with theatrical anectdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences. |
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Página 65
... merit has often been forc'd to yield to . Our managers have more than once rejected persons who have offer'd themselves , not only for playing the first characters , but even the fubordinate ones , mere- ly for want of height , tho ...
... merit has often been forc'd to yield to . Our managers have more than once rejected persons who have offer'd themselves , not only for playing the first characters , but even the fubordinate ones , mere- ly for want of height , tho ...
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... merit beyond this : but it is much otherwife with the judges of the latter fort ; they know that befide all this , a great many more beauties may be thrown in , if the actor be capa- ble of them before the tribunal of thefe judges there ...
... merit beyond this : but it is much otherwife with the judges of the latter fort ; they know that befide all this , a great many more beauties may be thrown in , if the actor be capa- ble of them before the tribunal of thefe judges there ...
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... merit which the applause they re- ceive feems to allow in them : we have prov'd , in the beginning of this treatise , that many players have much better understandings than the world supposes them to have , and that , in general , peo ...
... merit which the applause they re- ceive feems to allow in them : we have prov'd , in the beginning of this treatise , that many players have much better understandings than the world supposes them to have , and that , in general , peo ...
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CONTENTS | 1 |
Whether an Actor can have too much Fire? | 28 |
CHAP IV | 52 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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