How Long to Read What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

How Long Does it Take to Read What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 31 minutes to read What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century by James Harriman-Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practice and theories circulating three hundred years ago can generate new ways of studying and performing plays of all kinds in the present. Eight short essays – on emotions, cultivation, character, voice, action, company, audience, and reflection – provide two things: a vivid introduction to the practice and ideas of the eighteenth-century stage, and the story of how these past practices and ideas were used in collaborative workshops around the UK to create new rehearsal exercises. Designed to work alone or in combination, these exercises are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today. Marrying academic and professional theatre expertise, this book ranges through a vast archive of writing about acting, from private letters and battered promptbooks, through to philosophical treatises and celebrity biographies. The exercises, stories, and ideas shared here capture the strangeness of this material – and sometimes its surprising familiarity, as questions asked of actors then seem to anticipate those questions we ask now. A truly unique offering, What would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century offers a fascinating deep-dive into an important time in theatre history to illuminate practices and processes today.

How long is What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century?

What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century by James Harriman-Smith is 151 pages long, and a total of 37,901 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 27 minutes to read What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century aloud.

What Reading Level is What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century?

What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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