Henry Irving at the Lyceum.
Contributors: Consortium for Drama and Media in Higher Education.
Series: Theatre in focus
Publisher: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd in association with The Consortium for Drama and Media in Higher Education; Somerset House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Cambridge; Teaneck, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9780859640671
Subjects: Irving, Henry, -- 1838-1905.
Description: Irving was without doubt the most famous and influential actor-manager of the Victorian period. Irving never allowed photographers inside the Lyceum, and very few of the surviving illustrations give a clear picture of the mechanics of his stage. Therefore I have concentrated less upon Irving's technical stage-craft within the architectural limitations of his theatre, than upon the aesthetic principles of that stage-craft, the self-contained picture which creates an atmospheric environment beyond the footlights, and upon his own hypnotic power as an extraordinary and controversial actor. - Introduction.
Table of contents: title: General introduction to Theatre in Focus; title: Introduction; title: Commentary on the slides