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Delicious Dissembling: A Compleat Guide to Performing Restoration Comedy.
by Ramczyk, Suzanne M
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0325003750
- ISBN 13
- 9780325003757
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white drawings, spine lightly faded, minor edgewear. 186 pp. Drawing on her directing experience, and years of leading workshops on Restoration theatre, Suzanne Ramczyk provides an historic overview of the period and the literature. She also provides analysis of the major literary devices and features, methods to approach vocal interpretation of highly artificial text, a solid grounding in period manners and movement, specific exercises to get actors quickly and easily into the Restoration style, detailed artwork of period costumes, as well as illustrations of such period necessities as bows, curtsies, the 'language' of the fan and snuff-taking. The author is an American professor of theatre arts.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23407
- Title
- Delicious Dissembling: A Compleat Guide to Performing Restoration Comedy.
- Author
- Ramczyk, Suzanne M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0325003750
- ISBN 13
- 9780325003757
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- performing arts, acting, drama, theatre, humour, humor, comedy, history, restoration, europe
- Bookseller catalogs
- PERFORMING ARTS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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