Performance, Style and Gesture in Western TheatreBloomsbury Academic, 2007 - 319 Seiten Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. |
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Introduction | 7 |
Greek Origins | 19 |
Roman Stages | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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