[audiobook] Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools (Building Type Basics (Wiley)) by Bradford Perkins at Arts-Photography

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Attention is often given to the performance of a text; but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly; though important textual moments - like revision - are often attributed to it. Furthermore; up until now; facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. In this groundbreaking new study; Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts; and how rehearsal affected the creation and revision of plays. This is the first history of the subject; from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal; drawing on a mass of autobiographical; textual; and journalistic sources; and in so doing throws new light on textual revision and transforms accepted notions of Renaissance; Restoration; and eighteenth-century theatrical practice. Plotting theatrical change over time; this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.