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Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 1
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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.
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9 Roger Pickering, Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy
Roger Pickering, Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy (London: Printed for W. Johnston 1755), pp. 1-68. British Library, shelfmark 64l.e.34.
Although a variety of treatises were authored by Roger Pickering (d. 1755), M.A.F. R. S., relatively little is known about him. He was a Dissenting minister, who ‘received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge’1 and is often remembered as a tutor to Richard Gough (1735-1809), a distinguished eighteenth-century antiquary (Sweet). According to Britton and Brayley’s The Beauties of England and Wales (1815),
Poor Mr. Pickering, though one of the most learned and sensible ministers of the denomination to which he belonged, has obtained but a very small portion of notice in the annals of Dissent. He appears to have been originally intended for the church, but early in life he joined the Dissenters. In the ...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- General Introduction
- Bibliography
- John Weaver, An Essay Towards an History of Dancing (1712)
- Lewis Theobald, Censor (1717)
- G G., An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Wilks, etc. (1732)
- [Aaron Hill and William Popple], Prompter (1735)
- [William Oldys], Thomas Betterton, [Edmund Curll], The History of the English Stage (1741)
- James Eyre Weeks, A Rhapsody on the Stage; or, The Art of Playing
- James Parsons, Human Physiognomy Explain'd (1747)
- Anon., An Essay on the Stage (1754)
- Roger Pickering, Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy (1755)
- Editorial Notes