Dictionary of European actors
Title | Dictionary of European actors PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad |
Publisher | Primento |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2015-04-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 2804481719 |
If the European political space has been extensively explored, research has remained all too often focused on the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe rather than on the actors who make Europe. This dictionary brings a new angle to scholarship on Europe by systematically investigating its actors: those who work within the institutions or in close contact with them; those who are the targets of European policies; those in the name of whom reforms are carried out; those who promote Europe and those who oppose it. It showcases a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that bridges the usual separation between the European Union and the Council of Europe. In each entry, contributors selected among the leading specialists in their fields of research present the state of the art and the most current research perspectives on European actors. Students, teachers and researchers with an interest in Europe will find this volume to be a valuable work of reference and a source of new and stimulating ideas and perspectives on Europe. More broadly, the dictionary will appeal to ‘professionals of Europe’ eager to gain insights into their working environment as well as to readers interested in understanding Europe through its actors.
Dictionary of European Actors
Title | Dictionary of European Actors PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2015-04-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782804479602 |
If the European political space has been extensively explored, research has remained all too often focused on the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe rather than on the actors who make Europe. This dictionary brings a new angle to scholarship on Europe by systematically investigating its actors: those who work within the institutions or in close contact with them; those who are the targets of European policies; those in the name of whom reforms are carried out; those who promote Europe and those who oppose it. It showcases a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that bridges the usual separation between the European Union and the Council of Europe. In each entry, contributors selected among the leading specialists in their fields of research present the state of the art and the most current research perspectives on European actors. Students, teachers and researchers with an interest in Europe will find this volume to be a valuable work of reference and a source of new and stimulating ideas and perspectives on Europe. More broadly, the dictionary will appeal to ‘professionals of Europe' eager to gain insights into their working environment as well as to readers interested in understanding Europe through its actors.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809315253 |
Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809308330 |
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809306930 |
Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809309191 |
Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809309184 |
Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.