Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence - An Actor in Earnest

This book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal and European cultural revival was the cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. Brunstrom argues that the author's many failures are as interesting as his successed and that he stands as a fascinating example of the power of a single idea, variously interpreted and implemented.

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By Conrad Brunstorm

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• Authors: Conrad Brunstorm, Conrad Brunstrom, Conrad Brunstrsm
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611480382
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-038-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies