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Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of rhetoric. This book distinguishes the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs, and argues that the present has much to learn from premodern debates.

Produktbeschreibung
Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of rhetoric. This book distinguishes the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs, and argues that the present has much to learn from premodern debates.
Autorenporträt
David Wiles is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter. A British theatre historian, he specialises in classical and early modern theatre and has spent his career in departments of drama, where his teaching has always engaged with practice. His research interests include performance space and time, mask, acting and citizenship. This is his eighth book for Cambridge University Press.