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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

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Paul Friedland argues that politics and theatre became virtually indistinguishable during the Revolutionary period.
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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

Collections: Entire Library

On Actors and Acting EXETER PERFORMANCE STUDIES...at the University of Huddersfield. On Actors and Acting Peter Thomson UNIVERSITY...Acknowledgements x Introduction xi Part One: Actors and Acting in the Early Modern Theatre...
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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

Shakespeare knew actors because he was one. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dating and casting all the plays they presented from 1594 to 1614, and exploring the effects of actors on his writing.
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A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England before 1642

Book by Edwin Nungezer; Yale University Press, 1929

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...MARTIN WRIGHT SAMPSON A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with...all the available information regarding actors, theatrical proprietors, stage attendants...August 11, 1928 To Madeline A DICTIONARY OF ACTORS -x- A DICTIONARY OF ACTORS ABYNGDON...
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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

...Psychological Analysis of Comedians, Clowns, and Actors PRETEND THE WORLD IS FUNNY AND FOREVER...Psychological Analysis of Comedians, Clowns, and Actors Seymour Fisher Rhoda L. Fisher...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Actors--Psychology. 2. Comedians--Psychology...

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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

Merely Players?: Actors Accounts of Performing Shakespeare. by Cynthia Lewis Merely Players?: Actors accounts of performing Shakespeare. By...The position of this neo-apology for actors is signaled in the rhetorical question...
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Anger Management Using the Actor's Skills and General Semantics

Journal article by Katherine Liepe-Levinson; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 63, 2006

Subjects:

Actors--Psychological aspects, Actresses--Psychological aspects, Anger--Prevention, Anger--Psychological aspects, Semantics--Influence, Semantics--Usage

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Anger Management Using the Actors Skills and General Semantics. by...formulations of general semantics. Actors learn to view human beings as "organisms-as-wholes-in-different-environments...STEP ONE: Put Your Body and Mind into "Actors Neutral." "Actors Neutral" is a form...
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Still Fervent: Phoebe Brand at 96: The Last of the Group Theatre and of the First Generation of American Stanislavsky System Actors

Journal article by Matthew Andrews; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Brand, Phoebe, Theatrical actors--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Generation of American Stanislavsky System Actors. by Matthew Andrews Harold...Brand and other young Theatre Guild actors were initially attracted via some six...in the Stanislavski System, while the actors concurrently rehearsed their first play...
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Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies

Journal article by Martin Mowbray; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 41, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies. by Martin Mowbray...Making public policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies. Cambridge: Polity Press...show where interventions by real actors might become more effective and equitable...
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Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community

Journal article by I Nyoman Sudira; Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 29, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the...Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the...followed by an identification of the actors involved, this book contends that, with...

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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

Collections: Entire Library

Actors with Roots: 7 Great Performers Youll Have to Travel to See. by Jim OQuinn Here we are in Boston...New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Why the continental tour? To catch up with seven actors at the top of their game--actors we wouldnt be likely to encounter unless we hit the road and visited the theatre communities in which...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

The Eisenberg Factor: As Actors Equity Approaches the 100-Year Mark...various colleagues and advisers at the Actors Equity Association offices on West 46th...be Justice Learned Hand." Already, Actors Equity has sent out a general call for...
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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...in a crucible of conflicting demands Actors (I use the term to include both sexes...for being, and ways of being, insecure. Actors are perpetually stereotyped as exhibitionists...
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Actors and Money

Magazine article by Teresa Eyring; American Theatre, Vol. 25, January 2008

Subjects:

Theatrical actors--Appreciation, Theatrical actors--Compensation and benefits

Collections: Entire Library

Actors and Money. by Teresa Eyring The late great director...interchange that has consequence. Theatre is the means by which actors and audience choose together to examine and participate...www.collegegrad.com, aspiring thespians will read that "actors endure long periods of unemployment, intense competition...
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When Local Actors Get Cast - and When They Don't

Magazine article by Jim Lillie; American Theatre, Vol. 16, October 1999

Subjects:

Actors--Personnel management, Regional theater--Management, Theater companies--Management, Theatrical producers and directors--Management

Collections: Entire Library

WHEN LOCAL ACTORS GET CAST - AND WHEN THEY DONT. by...become more itinerant than ever, local actors arent always considered valuable commodities...that Hamburger further confounded Dallas actors by hiring numerous out-of-town performers...

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Art of the Captive Actors; Serfdom, Society and the Arts in Imperial Russia, by Richard Stites, Yale, Pounds 35. Reviewed by Richard Edmonds

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 8, 2006

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors

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

Art of the Captive Actors; Serfdom, Society and the Arts in Imperial...difference. Many brilliant singers, musicians, actors, dancers and painters were actually unpaid...barbarism remained scarcely changed. Actors were obliged to learn the arts of acting...
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SAG Split on Merger with TV-Radio Actors

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 9, 2003

Subjects:

Screen Actors Guild

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

SAG split on merger with TV-Radio Actors. Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON...say "yea." They are among the 178,000 actors both famous and obscure on both sides...of the American Federation of TV-Radio Actors and the Screen Actors Guild unions...
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Gerry De Leon Built Actors Not Movie Stars

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 17, 2006

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors

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

Gerry De Leon Built Actors Not Movie Stars. Byline: ANTONETTE...directors extraordinary ability to build actors and not just mere movie stars. De Leon...painting. When he directs a film, his actors win awards. As a matter of fact, other...
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The Queen of the Old Vic; Master Psychologist: Kate Pakenham Is Expert at Intuiting Which Actors Will Respond Best to the Old Vic's Auditorium and Each Other

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 30, 2007

Subjects:

Actors, Actresses

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

...Pakenham Is Expert at Intuiting Which Actors Will Respond Best to the Old Vics Auditorium...challenge a cast of writers,directors and actors to create and present six plays in 24...hugely worthy project (more than 3,000 actors, writers and directorsaged 18-25 are currently...
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Actors Assist Doctors; Stage Skills Boost Care

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 24, 2007

Subjects:

Actors, Actresses, Physicians

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

Actors Assist Doctors; Stage Skills Boost Care. Byline: Jennifer...Center. Enter the VCU Theatre-Medicine Team. The group of actors, doctors and biostaticians reconfigured stage skills to...embarrassed or combative. "We are not teaching doctors to be actors," said Aaron Anderson, a former stuntman turned professor...

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Actors Studio, The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...subtlety of speech and gesture impossible. The actors, all men, wore comic and tragic masks and...naturalistic acting even at that time, and actors were held in high esteem. In the Roman period actors were slaves, and the level of performance...
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Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...lighting, makeup, costumes, acting, and actors. Ancient Greece Theater in ancient...was the skene, a building where the actors could change costume. Between the skene...presented in classical tragedy . Greek actors performed in masks and stylized costumes...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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BÉjart

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Bejard both: bazhar , French family of actors associated with Moliere , who joined...Louis Bejart, 1630 78, were also actors in the company. Louis retired in 1670, and was the first of Molieres actors to receive a pension. Armande Gresinde...

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