‘Rude am I in Meh Speech': Vocality and Victorian Shakespeare

This article refutes some of the assumptions, most often associated with Peter Hall and John Barton, that colour accounts of the vocality of verse actors before the emergence of contemporary stylisations. It focuses on the earliest recordings of late Victorians actors – in particular, Edwin Booth, E...

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Main Author: Brian Willis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2009-04-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/501