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

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Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence: An Actor in Earnest
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Bucknell University Press
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1611480388
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9781611480382
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168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence : an Actor in Earnest
Subject
Cultural Heritage, Theater / History & Criticism, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Rhetoric, Educators, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2011
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Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Conrad Brunstorm
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Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser.
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Hardcover

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Sheridan (1719 -88) was once a well-known writer on elocution; today he is virtually forgotten, even though in his time he was a prominent actor-manager (Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre), a lecturer and writer on the primacy of the spoken word, and an educational theorist. Brunström, an Irish academic, hopes to reclaim Sheridan's reputation and importance. Yet this Sheridan (whose 1967 biography, Esther Sheldon's Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley, is still definitive) remains best known as father of playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan. For specialists in 18th-century Irish studies, this idiosyncratic investigation will likely prove of some interest. However, without adequate background on Irish history, culture, politics, and the arts (especially theater in Dublin), inexperienced readers will find this book inaccessible and too speculative (Brunström likes divergent discussions and topics tangential to Sheridan's activities). In four chapters, the author deals briefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach). riefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach). riefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach). riefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach)., In this insightful study, Brunstrom argues that Thomas Sheridan's many failures are as interesting as his successes and that he stands as a fascinating example of a single idea, variously interpreted and implemented., "Sheridan (1719 -88) was once a well-known writer on elocution; today he is virtually forgotten, even though in his time he was a prominent actor-manager (Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre), a lecturer and writer on the primacy of the spoken word, and an educational theorist. Brunström, an Irish academic, hopes to reclaim Sheridan's reputation and importance. Yet this Sheridan (whose 1967 biography, Esther Sheldon's Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley, is still definitive) remains best known as father of playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan. For specialists in 18th-century Irish studies, this idiosyncratic investigation will likely prove of some interest. However, without adequate background on Irish history, culture, politics, and the arts (especially theater in Dublin), inexperienced readers will find this book inaccessible and too speculative (Brunström likes divergent discussions and topics tangential to Sheridan's activities). In four chapters, the author deals briefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach)." -- Choice Reviews "In this insightful study, Brunstrom argues that Thomas Sheridan's many failures are as interesting as his successes and that he stands as a fascinating example of a single idea, variously interpreted and implemented." -- The Scriblerian, Sheridan (1719 -88) was once a well-known writer on elocution; today he is virtually forgotten, even though in his time he was a prominent actor-manager (Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre), a lecturer and writer on the primacy of the spoken word, and an educational theorist. Brunström, an Irish academic, hopes to reclaim Sheridan's reputation and importance. Yet this Sheridan (whose 1967 biography, Esther Sheldon's Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley, is still definitive) remains best known as father of playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan. For specialists in 18th-century Irish studies, this idiosyncratic investigation will likely prove of some interest. However, without adequate background on Irish history, culture, politics, and the arts (especially theater in Dublin), inexperienced readers will find this book inaccessible and too speculative (Brunström likes divergent discussions and topics tangential to Sheridan's activities). In four chapters, the author deals briefly with Sheridan's life, his role as mid-18th-century manager of Smock Alley Theatre, his writings on oratory and elocution, and his career within a history of 18th-century Irish patriotic rhetoric. Throughout there are careless errors, including the misspelling of several cited authors (French for ffrench, Pillon for Pullen, Roche for Roach).
Table Of Content
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. An Earnest Life Chapter 3. An Actor in Charge: The (Mis?)Management of the Smock Alley Theatre, and the Scandal of Siddonolatory Chapter 4. Education, Rhetoric, and the Rise and Fall of Empires and Republics Chapter 5. An Actor for Ireland Chapter 6. Conclusion
Synopsis
Ambitious polymath Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was the lynch pin of the most fascinating family in Anglo-Irish literary history. The godson (and future biographer) of Jonathan Swift, the son of Thomas Sheridan senior, a talented poet and scholar, the husband of the novelist Frances Sheridan and the father of the dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, this new study reconstructs this much maligned transitional Sheridan as a monumental figure in his own right. This book discusses the varied and relentless energies of Thomas Sheridan in an attempt to recover an overall purpose and agenda which unites his adventures as actor-manager of Smock Alley Theatre Dublin with his pioneering campaigns in the fields of oratory, elocution and lexicography. Infused with civic republican zeal (derived in part from close reading of Montesquieu and an admiration for native North American culture) Sheridan believed that humanity in general and Anglophones in particular suffered from a cultural and political enervation as a result of the cultivation of written language at the expense of spoken language. It is argued that "republicanism" functioned more as a figure of political virtue than as a preferred mode of government. Enjoying particular success in Edinburgh with his public lectures, Sheridan sought to unify the peoples of Britain and Ireland by making the principles of elocution available to all, effectively de-centralizing the linguistic claims of metropolitan center. The Sheridan who emerges from this study is a phonocentric obsessive who left an abiding mark on the future of both acting and speech-making, but whose limitations are equally interesting and influential. In seeking to tame the riotous eighteenth-century stage, he anticipated (unknowingly) a far more passive "cinematic" form of spectator entertainment (accelerated by his mentorship of the great Sarah Siddons, arguably the first player to be experienced as a "movie star")., 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. Brunström argues that the author's many failures are as interesting as his successes and that he stands as a fascinating example of the power of a single idea, variously interpreted and implemented.
LC Classification Number
PN2601.S47B78 2011

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