PERIOD STYLE: ACTING

PRINT SOURCES:

Aitken, Maria. Acting in High Comedy. New York: Applause Books, n.d.
Available in book form or as video.

Albright, Hardie. Acting: The Creative Process. Belmont, CA: Dickenson Publishing, 1967.

Barton, Robert. Style for Actors. New York: Mayfield, 1993.

Boehn, Max von. Modes and Manners, 4 Vols.. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1932-1936.
Antiquity to 1800.

Callow, Simon. Acting in Restoration Comedy. New York: Applause, 1991.
Available in book form or as a video.

Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1974.
Music Hall 1843-1973. Stars, audience, atmosphere, law, finances.

Chisman, Isabel and Hester E. Raven-Hart. Manners and Movements in Costume Plays. Boston: W. H. Baker, n. d.

Clurman, Harold. “Actors in Style and Style in Actors,” New York Times Magazine. 7 December, 1952.

Cox, Lee Sheridan. Figurative Design in Hamlet: The Significance of the Dumb Show. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.

Crawford, Jerry L. and Catherine Hurst and Michael Lugering. Acting in Person and in Style. Dubuque, IA: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, 1995. 0-697-20133-3

Delaumosne, Abbe. Delsarte System of Oratory. New York: E. S. Werner, 1893.

Gerould, Daniel. Gallant and Libertine. New York: PAJ Publishers, 1983.
Eighteenth century divertissements and parades.

Glenn, Stanley L. The Complete Actor. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1977.
Acting text with period notes.

Goldovsky, Boris. Bringing Opera to Life. New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1968.
Brief sections on motivating movements for opera singers; chapter on operatic pantomimes detailing pantomimic sequences.

Harrop, John and Sabin R. Epstein. Acting With Style. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.
Covers seven styles from Greek to Artaud. Includes physical exercises.

Henshaw, N. “Graphic Sources for a Modern Approach to Acting Restoration Comedy,” Educational Theatre Journal, May 1968: 157-70.

Kernodle, George. “Symbolic Action in the Greek Choral Odes,” Classical Journal, 53(October 1957).
Choral pantomime in Greek drama.

Knox, Bernard. Word and Action. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Essays on ancient theatre.

LeMee, Katharine. “Francois Delsarte, 19th Century Teacher of Vocal and Body Behavior,” Northeastern Modern Language Association, 1973.

Mehl, Dieter. The Elizabethan Dumb Show. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
Pantomime and intermezzi in Elizabethan plays.

Moore, K. and S. The Use of Gesture in Victorian Melodrama. London: Inkshed, 1966.

Northrup, Henry D. Delsarte Manual of Oratory. Chicago: n. p., 1895.
Voice and gesture.

Oxenford, Lyn. Playing Period Plays. Chicago: Coach House Press, 1966. 0-85343- 549-9

Quilrey, B. May I Have the Pleasure? London: BBC, 1976. Reprint ed., 1987.

Ramczyk, Suzanne. Delicious Dissembling: A Compleat Guide to Performing Restoration Comedy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. 0-325-00375-0
Suzanne Ramczyk offers both directors and actors the tools they need to perform these popular plays." (Heinemann blurb). Includes historical overview; period manners and movement; exercises; illustrations.

Rockwood, Jerome. The Craftsmen of Dionysus. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1966.

Rolfe, Bari. Movement for Period Plays. Oakland, CA: Personabooks, 1985. 0-932456- 04-9
Ancient Greece through Victorian/Edwardian; manners, social graces, movement in clothing, basic dance steps. Optional videotape shows salutations and basic dance steps. Good bibliography.

Russell, Douglas. Period Style for the Theatre. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1980.
Comprehensive on art, architecture, literature, culture, ideals, clothing, manners (not movement).

Schreck, Everett M. Principles and Styles of Acting. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1970.

Seyler, Athene. “Fans, Trains and Stays,” Theatre Arts, 31(November 1947): 21-24.
How to approach work in period costumes.

Styan, J. L. Restoration Comedy in Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Stebbins, Genevieve. Delsarte System of Expression. New York: Dance Horizons, 1977.
First published 1886; revised 1902.

Suzman, Janet. Acting in Shakespearean Comedy. New York: Applause Books, n. d.
Available in book form or as video.

Veltrusky, Jarmila. “Engel’s Ideas for a Theory of Acting,” The Drama Review, 24(December 1980).
Johann Jacob Engel, writing in 1785-86 on the physical expression of actors.

Wildeblood, Joan and Peter Brinson. The Polite World. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Revised ed., London: Davis-Poynter, 1973.
English manners and deportment, 13th to 19th centuries; 20th century in revised edition.

Young, Stark. “Wearing Costumes,” Theatre Practice. New York: Scribner’s, 1926.

Zora, John W. The Essential Delsarte. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1968.

AUDIO/VIDEO SOURCES:

Aitken, Maria. Acting in High Comedy. New York: Applause Books, n.d.
Available in book form or as video.

Callow, Simon. Acting in Restoration Comedy. New York: Applause, 1991.
Available in book form or as a video.

Cox, Brian. Acting in Tragedy. New York: Applause Books, n .d. 1-55783-114-9
Video

Miller, Jonathan. Acting in Opera. New York: Applause Books, n. d. 1-55783-036-3
Video.

Rolfe, Bari. Movement for Period Plays. Oakland, CA: Personabooks, 1985. 0-932456- 04-9
Ancient Greece through Victorian/Edwardian; manners, social graces, movement in clothing, basic dance steps. Optional videotape shows salutations and basic dance steps. Good bibliography.

Suzman, Janet. Acting in Shakespearean Comedy. New York: Applause Books, n. d.
Available in book form or as video.