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Actors --- Jewish actors --- Actors, Jewish --- Zuskin, Benjamin,
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, HenryIrving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and
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The definitive biography of the legendary film noir actor
Actors --- Ryan, Robert,
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Child actors. --- Acting --- Performing arts --- Vocational guidance.
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"The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate. This book explores the participation of this new category of actors in an international legal system that has historically been dominated by states. It explores the most important issues, actors and theoretical approaches with respect to these new participants in international law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the most important legal and political developments and perspectives. Relevant non-state actors discussed in this volume include, in particular, international governmental organisations, international non-governmental organisations, multinational companies, investors and armed opposition groups. Their legal position is considered in relation to specific issue-areas, such as humanitarian law, human rights, the use of force and international responsibility. The main legal theories on non-state actors' position in international law - neo-positivism, the policy-oriented approach and transnational law - are covered at the beginning of the book, and the essential political science perspectives - on non-state actors' role in international politics and globalisation, as well as their soft power - are presented at the end."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale. He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.
Shakespearean actors and actresses --- Actors --- Performances. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Stage history. --- Dramatic production.
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Actors --- Withers, Googie. --- McCallum, John, --- Withers, Georgette Lizette --- Withers, Googie,
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Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a "labyrinth" of gendering, the practice of men playing women's roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata's theatrical gender "impersonation" has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.
Kabuki --- Actors --- Female impersonators --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- History. --- Persons
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Singer and actors are a unique group of performers, relying almost entirely on their voice for the professional livelihood. Jet lag, amplification, allergens, stress, pollution, and vocal strain all affect vocal performance. Written for the performer, the teacher, and the vocal coach, Care of the Professional Voice offers clear explanations and medical advice on vocal problems and vocal health.Care of the Professional Voice is written by experts in laryngology in the United States and Great Britain. This second edition includes a singer's guide to self-diagnosis.
Voice --- Actors --- Singers --- Voice disorders. --- Dysphonia --- Phonation disorders --- Phonatory disorders --- Larynx --- Speech disorders --- Vocalists --- Musicians --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Speaking --- Human sounds --- Language and languages --- Music --- Throat --- Diaphragm --- Elocution --- Speech --- Voice, Protection of --- Care and hygiene. --- Physiological aspects. --- Health and hygiene. --- Diseases --- Physiological aspects --- Individual actors & performers
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The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is beyond dispute, yet until now little has been written on the subject. In this unique study Jim Davis considers the representation of English low comic actors, such as Joseph Munden, John Liston, Charles Mathews and John Emery, in the visual arts of the period, the ways in which such representations became part of the visual culture of their time, and the impact of visual representation and art theory on prose descriptions of comic actors. Davis reveals how many of the actors discussed also exhibited or collected paintings and used painterly techniques to evoke the world around them. Drawing particularly on the influence of Hogarth and Wilkie, he goes on to examine portraiture as critique and what the actors themselves represented in terms of notions of national and regional identity.
Actors in art. --- Actors --- Comedians --- Portraits, British --- Art and society --- Theater and society --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- British portraits --- Comics (Persons) --- Stand-up comedians --- Entertainers --- Clowns --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- History --- Social status --- Social aspects
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