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This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the history of emotions, it uses practice theory to challenge the view that emotional interactions between actors and audiences were governed by empathy. It carefully works through how actors communicated emotions through thei

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Author

Glen McGillivray

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031228988

Category

history

Subjects

Performing Arts, Social History, History & Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25