Actor, director, impresario, author, David Garrick is the most legendary man of the theatre of modern times. He reformed English theatre practice, established a 'natural' style of acting, and made the profession socially acceptable. As his great friend Dr Johnson remarked, no actor before Garrick had made so much money or achieved such an eminent position in society. Not for nothing is the most exclusive club in London named after him; Garrick was the first international 'megastar'. Drawing on the large amount of source material that is available, from the account of Johnson's friendship with Garrick in Boswell's Life, through descriptions of his acting by English, French and German critics, to his own diaries and letters, Jean-Norman Benedetti has written a lively and fascinating account of Garrick's style and pivotal reforms, establishing his place in the development of acting and directing.

David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre

Jean Benedetti

METHUEN

Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a team of hand-picked assistants in the last three years of his life (1935-38) at the Opera-Dramatic Studio in Moscow. Jean Benedetti now reconstructs that course. Stanislavski and the Actor is the manual which Stanislavski never had time to write. Using notes made by Stanislavski's assistants, exercises and improvisations used in class, transcripts of Stanislavski's own master classes (translated into English for the first time) and his knowledge of Stanislavski's earlier writings, Benedetti builds up a comprehensive description of the 'system' in contemporary language that is easy to understand by today's actors and teachers. He also shows that Stanislavski's revolutionary teachings about acting still have a wide application now.

Stanislavski and the Actor : The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38

Humor & Entertainment

A single-volume survey of the history of acting, The Art of the Actor is an essential and practical guide for all students of the theatre. Professor Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today. Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory, as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle, Cicero and others, it progresses to examine the art of the actor in Shakespeare's time right through to the modern day. Along the way, Benedetti considers the contribution and theories of key figures such as Diderot, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, Artaud and Grotowski, providing a clear and concise explanation of their work illustrated by accesible summaries of their writings.Jean Benedetti's previous works include STANISLAVSKI: AN INTRODUCTION, THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE LETTERS, DEAR WRITER...DEAR ACTRESS, STANISLAVSKI AND THE ACTOR, and STANISLAVSKI: HIS LIFE AND ART.

The Art of the Actor

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Methuen Drama

This work aims to get behind the myths and present the real Bluebeard, Gilles de Rais, one of the most enduring baddies of history. His infamy lives on, the precursor of our own time's serial killers and a founding father of the cult of the child-snatching bogeyman.

The Real Bluebeard

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Sutton Publishing

The real Bluebeard

History

Day Books

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Stanislavski and the Actor

Routledge

Dorset_Press

Stanislavski: An Introduction, Revised and Updated

Stanislavski and the Actor: The Method of Physical Action

Taylor & Francis Group

This work contains a translation of verbatim transcriptions, published in English for the first time, of Stanislavski's notes and practical exercises from sessions which took place between 1935 and 1938 at the Opera-Dramatic Studio in Moscow.

Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38 (Performance Books)

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