Recollections Of An Actor - Softcover

Walter Alexander Donaldson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461629054 ISBN 13: 9780461629057

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Recollections Of An Actor by Walter Alexander Donaldson is a memoir of the English and Irish stage, spanning six decades of theatrical life. The Preface (London, 1865) argues that genuine drama has declined and must be protected by a strictly national theatre. Donaldson recalls early Dublin memories at the Theatre Royal, Crow Street (1809–1815), and later London triumphs and travels in the West of Scotland, Liverpool, and the Channel Islands. He offers intimate portraits of stars such as Talbot, Jones, Elliston, Johnston, Holman, Conway, Cooke, Miss Smith (Mrs. Bartley), Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Glover, Kean, Liston, Braham, and a host of others, mixing anecdotes with observations on management, salaries, and the social milieu of actors, musicians, and patrons. The book also treats the political and cultural role of drama—advocating a national theatre, lamenting sensationalism, and recording the evolution of theatrical taste and practice across England, Ireland, and France, including Guernsey and Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461629054
• ISBN 13: 9780461629057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392