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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting

Editor: Simon Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara

Adolfo Albornoz, Amal Allana, Yana Elsa Brugal Almanza, Khalid Amine, Knut Ove Arntzen, Natalya Baldyga, Cynthia Bates, Dennis Beck, Henry Bial, Peter M. Boenisch, Kazimierz Braun, Maria Joiao Brilhante, Jocelyn L. Buckner, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Marvin Carlson, Anna de Carvalho, Dong-Shin Chang, Asha Chauduri, Liana Chen, Gopan Chithambaran, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Rui Pina Coelho, Christopher Collins, Stratos E. Constantinidis, Mahesh Dattani, Jim Davis, Violeta Detcheva, Maria M. Delgado, Hafed Djedidi, David Donkor, Kermit Dunkelberg, Sebaie El-Sayyed, Iman Ezzeldin, Guilherme Filipe, Silvana Garcia, Cobina Gillitt, Jean Graham-Jones, Milena Grass, Beliz Güçbilmez, Caroline Hefert, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Robert Henke, Jessica Hillman, Vallerii J. Hohman, Laura Hollosi, Rikard Hoogland, Noha Mohamad M. Ibraheem, Kene Igweonu, Andrés Kalawski, David Kathmann, Anjum Katyal, Robert Keith, Dina Khamis, Suk-Young Kim, Laurence Kominz, Yanna Kor, Pirkko Koski, Annelis Kuhlmann, Margherita Laera, Carl Lavery, Liang Luo, Arya Madhaven, Mangai, Rita Martins, Christina McMahon, Erin B. Mee, Eduardo Caro Melendez, Bella Merlin, Stefka Mihaylova, Judith Milhous, Shayoni Mitra, Michael Morgan, Gichingiri Ndigiringi, Jesse Njus, Elizabeth Osborne, Naum Panovski, Frank Peeters, Birgit Peter, Luda Popenhagen, Ron Popenhagen, Dassia N. Posner, Michael Raab, Nicholas Ridout, Torsten Sannar, Mohit Satyanand, Catherine A. Schuler, Jason D. Scott, Boris Senker, Maria Helena Serôdio, Melissa Sihra, Gretchen Smith, Ioana Szeman, Klaus van den Berg, Luc van den Dries, Michael Wallace, Kevin Wetmore, Simon Williams, Torange Yeghiazarian, Philip Zarrilli, Praise Zenenga, Edward Ziter, Christina Zurbach

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Date Published: January 2015
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521769549

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Acting is widely acknowledged to be the central art of the theatre and has a long and vibrant history. With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around the world. More than one hundred renowned international contributors provide biographical, historical and technical information about actors both familiar and obscure whose work has been crucial in the development of acting methods and traditions from classical theatre to the present day. Entries on key directors, theorists and teachers, and on the elements and genres of acting provide insights into the history of acting as an art and its current practice. Including a chronological list of actors that spans the past two thousand years and many diverse countries and cultures, this Encyclopedia offers a fascinating and unique overview of acting onstage that will be of interest to anyone who attends or practises theatre.
- The first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting
- Provides wide-ranging information about both internationally well-known actors and those who are famous in their own country, and includes a chronological list of actors, spanning centuries, countries and cultures
- Over one thousand entries on the elements and genres of acting provide both an introduction to the craft of acting and a rich perspective on the historical material, as well as revealing the major theories and innovative practices that have been central to the development of acting
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- Date Published: January 2015
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521769549
- length: 710 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 182 x 35 mm
- weight: 1.55kg
- contains: 16 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
A-Z general entries
Appendix. Chronological list of actors
Bibliography
Index of actors and directors.
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Simon Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara
Simon Williams is a Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book Shakespeare on the German Stage (Cambridge University Press, 1990) was a pioneering work that brought English-speakers' attention to a powerful but largely unknown tradition of Shakespeare performance. In addition to his scholarship in theatrical and operatic history, he has directed award-winning productions of opera and spoken drama in Santa Barbara and is a practising professional critic. His future research projects include the study of 'Romantic Virtuosity', which will examine from the point of view of performance theory the technically complex works of late Romanticism, and the history of acting in opera.
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Adolfo Albornoz, Amal Allana, Yana Elsa Brugal Almanza, Khalid Amine, Knut Ove Arntzen, Natalya Baldyga, Cynthia Bates, Dennis Beck, Henry Bial, Peter M. Boenisch, Kazimierz Braun, Maria Joiao Brilhante, Jocelyn L. Buckner, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Marvin Carlson, Anna de Carvalho, Dong-Shin Chang, Asha Chauduri, Liana Chen, Gopan Chithambaran, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Rui Pina Coelho, Christopher Collins, Stratos E. Constantinidis, Mahesh Dattani, Jim Davis, Violeta Detcheva, Maria M. Delgado, Hafed Djedidi, David Donkor, Kermit Dunkelberg, Sebaie El-Sayyed, Iman Ezzeldin, Guilherme Filipe, Silvana Garcia, Cobina Gillitt, Jean Graham-Jones, Milena Grass, Beliz Güçbilmez, Caroline Hefert, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Robert Henke, Jessica Hillman, Vallerii J. Hohman, Laura Hollosi, Rikard Hoogland, Noha Mohamad M. Ibraheem, Kene Igweonu, Andrés Kalawski, David Kathmann, Anjum Katyal, Robert Keith, Dina Khamis, Suk-Young Kim, Laurence Kominz, Yanna Kor, Pirkko Koski, Annelis Kuhlmann, Margherita Laera, Carl Lavery, Liang Luo, Arya Madhaven, Mangai, Rita Martins, Christina McMahon, Erin B. Mee, Eduardo Caro Melendez, Bella Merlin, Stefka Mihaylova, Judith Milhous, Shayoni Mitra, Michael Morgan, Gichingiri Ndigiringi, Jesse Njus, Elizabeth Osborne, Naum Panovski, Frank Peeters, Birgit Peter, Luda Popenhagen, Ron Popenhagen, Dassia N. Posner, Michael Raab, Nicholas Ridout, Torsten Sannar, Mohit Satyanand, Catherine A. Schuler, Jason D. Scott, Boris Senker, Maria Helena Serôdio, Melissa Sihra, Gretchen Smith, Ioana Szeman, Klaus van den Berg, Luc van den Dries, Michael Wallace, Kevin Wetmore, Simon Williams, Torange Yeghiazarian, Philip Zarrilli, Praise Zenenga, Edward Ziter, Christina Zurbach