Download or read book Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 5 written by Lisa Zunshine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.