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Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution

Book by Paul Friedland; Cornell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Actors--France--Political Activity, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, Theater--Political Aspects--France--History--18th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...new Revolution, to accord actors certain civil liberties that...One might speak vaguely of actors as citizens, and even condemn...centuries of hostility toward actors, and yet at the same time balk at the prospect of an actor playing any active, visible...
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The Best Actors in the World: Shakespeare and His Acting Company

Book by David Grote; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Acting--History--16th Century, Acting--History--17th Century, Chamberlain's Men (Theater Company), Kemp, William--Fl. 1600, King's Men (Theater Company), Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Friends And Associates, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Relations With Actors, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Stage History--England, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Stage History--To 1625, Theatrical Companies--England--History--16th Century, Theatrical Companies--England--History--17th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to remember that casting for the Elizabethan actors was a different process from casting for modern...further modified during rehearsals to fit the actors cast, but the basic impulse is to fit actors to the script. For the Elizabethans, the...
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Pretend the World Is Funny and Forever: A Psychological Analysis of Comedians, Clowns, and Actors

Book by Seymour Fisher, Rhoda L. Fisher; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981

Subjects:

Actors--Psychology, Comedians--Psychology, Wit And Humor--Psychological Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

the actors and comics, we found the actors were significantly higher. 6 Preoccupation...imagery does seem to characterize the actor. The nature of the components of...forces from the past. We see in the actors focus on this theme a conviction that...
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On Actors and Acting

Book by Peter Thomson; University of Exeter Press, 2000

Subjects:

Actors--Great Britain--Biography, Theater--Great Britain--History

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...discoveries that has most surprised actors who are playing Shakespeare...pieces were delivered by static actors using the aid of conventional...with solid pillars, a static actor will always be invisible to...observed, there is onus on the actors to keep the stage busy. There...
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The Tragic Actor

Book by Bertram Joseph; Routledge and Paul, 1959

Subjects:

Actors--England, Theater--England--History

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...only the lesser Elizabethan actors were guilty of the faults which...in the right circumstances by actors of the calibre of Burbage...prudent rhetorician. 1 The actor who played Mido must have done...to copy from the stage. The actors were also apparently in the...

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Journal Articles on: actors

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The Roman Actor, Metadrama, Authority, and the Audience

Journal article by Bill Angus; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Massinger, Philip--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, The Roman Actor (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Metadrama in The Roman Actor provides an exploration...authority, which requires actors and audiences to occupy...9) in The Roman Actor, however, and anywhere...acting as off-duty actors, the position of the...disordered. Here, the actor Paris has had problems...
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Hazlitt on "Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes"

Journal article by James Mulvihill; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 41, 2010

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Hazlitt, William--Works, Kean, Edmund--Works, Theatrical actors--Works, Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes (Essay)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Hazlitt on "Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the...appearance of celebrated actor Edmund Kean at the...I think not": "Actors belong to the public...conceive that an actor, on account of the...is a great comic actor who happens to possess...there are retired actors, an entire class...
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Actors and Chairs: towards the Genealogy of a Rehearsal Room Exercise

Journal article by Meredith Rogers; Australasian Drama Studies, 2008

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Actors, Theater, Theater studies

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...performance-makers - actor, director or designer...particular project. The actors engagement with the...thinking that the actor and the director...material things and actors and gestures and...the action or the actor and the performance...talismans for the actors to carry forward...
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Merely Players?: Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare

Journal article by Cynthia Lewis; Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 23, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Merely Players?: Actors' Accounts of Performing Shakespeare (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...strategies of ideology that constitute both actor and character. (Holmes 168) actors utterances, the ultimate question...the burden that the past is to the actor, a burden that literary critics will...
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State Actors as First Amendment Speakers

Journal article by David Fagundes; Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 100, 2006

Subjects:

Actors, Court decisions, Education, First Amendment-US, Intelligent design, Iraq War-2003, Public figures, Speech

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the idea that a state actor might have its expressive...the speaker is a state actor? State actors can speak in much the...whether a government actor such as a public university...not protect, state actors.7 A minority of courts...

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Magazine Articles on: actors

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Actors' Privacy Suit against Airport Bar Robots Reinstated

Magazine article; News Media and the Law, Vol. 22, Winter 1998

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Actors, Courts of appeals, Host International Inc, Litigation, Privacy, Ratzenberger, John, Television programs, Wendt, George

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Actors Privacy Suit against Airport Bar Robots...in San Francisco (9th Cir.) held that actors from the "Cheers" television series could...characters from the series. Because the actors argued that the chain sought to exploit...
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Actors with Roots: 7 Great Performers You'll Have to Travel to See

Magazine article by Jim O'Quinn; American Theatre, Vol. 23, October 2006

Subjects:

Actors--Performances, Actresses--Performances, Drama--Performances, Plays--Performances

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...representative of many of the actors best attributes...not something every actor would do. But he...simply to be the best actor she can be. She...is one of the best actors I have had the pleasure...collided with another actor. "We had done the...This time the actors shoulder went right...
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The Eisenberg Factor: As Actors' Equity Approaches the 100-Year Mark, Its Longtime Executive Director Assesses the Union's Effectiveness, Then and Now

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 21, March 2004

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Actors' Equity Association--Officials and employees, Eisenberg, Alan--Interviews, Labor unions--Officials and employees, Labor unions--United States

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...aspect of being an actor. Its really paid...producers as part of actors compensation. To...between employers and actors, and, in my view...being provided to the actor. The reasons for...Well-established actors who do not expect...so few jobs. An actor has to stand in a...
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The Actor and the Critic: What Happens When You Bring Them Together for a No-Holds-Barred Conversation?

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 23, May-June 2006

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Actors--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Actresses--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Theater--Conferences, meetings and seminars

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...public thinks of actors as artists--I believe they think the actor is the character...In the case of actors who become powerfully...whether its a movie actor who plays the same...where a lot of good actors are going as well. What about an actor failing? You always...
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The Actor's Insecurity

Magazine article by Julius Novick; American Theatre, Vol. 15, April 1998

Subjects:

Actors--Psychology and mental health, Security (Psychology)--Analysis

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

The actors insecurity. by Julius Novick The art of the actor is forged in a crucible of conflicting demands Actors (I use the term to include...use. That is what the actor does. Critic Julius Novick has taught actors (though not acting...

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Newspaper Articles on: actors

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SPEAK UP! or Why Mumbling Actors Are Ruining TV Drama

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 30, 2012

Subjects:

Television actors, Television actors and actresses, Television dramas, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...curse of the modern actor -- the inability...become fashionable for actors to mumble their way...from the past, when actors prided themselves...repertoire. Any actor mumbling would quickly...the founder of the Actors Studio. The aim...portrayal by enabling the actor to get inside the...
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SPEAK UP! or Why Mumbling Actors Are Ruining TV Drama

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 30, 2012

Subjects:

Television actors, Television actors and actresses, Television dramas, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...curse of the modern actor -- the inability...become fashionable for actors to mumble their way...from the past, when actors prided themselves...repertoire. Any actor mumbling would quickly...the founder of the Actors Studio. The aim...portrayal by enabling the actor to get inside the...
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SPEAK UP! or Why Mumbling Actors Are Ruining TV Drama

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 30, 2012

Subjects:

Television actors, Television actors and actresses, Television dramas, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...curse of the modern actor -- the inability...become fashionable for actors to mumble their way...from the past, when actors prided themselves...repertoire. Any actor mumbling would quickly...the founder of the Actors Studio. The aim...portrayal by enabling the actor to get inside the...
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SPEAK UP! or Why Mumbling Actors Are Ruining TV Drama

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 30, 2012

Subjects:

Television actors, Television actors and actresses, Television dramas, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...curse of the modern actor -- the inability...become fashionable for actors to mumble their way...from the past, when actors prided themselves...repertoire. Any actor mumbling would quickly...the founder of the Actors Studio. The aim...portrayal by enabling the actor to get inside the...
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The Black Actor Boom; Three Major Productions with a Black Lead Actor Are Playing to Packed Houses in London. the Days of Token Casting May Finally Be over, Says Nosheen Iqbal

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 18, 2010

Subjects:

Actors, Actresses, Casting (Performing arts), Graphite, Motion pictures--Casting, Theater--Casting

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Black Actor Boom; Three Major Productions with a Black Lead Actor Are Playing to Packed...theatreland. Talented black actors, so often sidelined...stage roles to black actors than any time before. Actor David Harewood, 44...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: actors

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Actors Studio, The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ACTORS STUDIO, THE organization founded 1947 in...and Robert Lewis to train professional actors. Long directed (1948 82) by Lee Strasberg...1950s. It continues to be active, teaching actors, directors, and playwrights in New York...
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Acting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Building a Character (tr. 1962) and An Actor Prepares (tr. 1963); J. A. Hammerton, ed., The Actors Art (1969); T. Cole and H. K...1971); M. Billington, The Modern Actor (1973); W. Worthen, The Idea of...
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Motion Pictures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...interlocking crafts. The crafts people include actors, producers, cinematographers, writers...basis through film exchanges. Early on, actors were not known by name, but in 1910...matter. The first generation of star actors included Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...she must work out the movement of the actors on stage and the pacing of each line and...Greece playwrights trained their chorus and actors, and medieval religious plays had either...ensemble acting and the importance of actors absolute identification with their roles...
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Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in classical tragedy . Greek actors performed in masks and stylized...Christian church. While Greek actors were highly respected, their...Although position of Roman actors had improved by the 1st cent...stage led to the view of the actor as a social outcast. Until...

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