Lectures on the Art of Reading. In Two Parts.Containing: Part I. The Art of Reading Prose. Part II. The Art of ReadingVerse

SHERIDAN, Thomas

Published by London. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1787

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8vo, 21.5cm, thirdedition, 409p., in contemporary calf, gilt panel rules, gilt title ondark crimson crushed morocco label, contemporary heraldic book plate, aformer owner's inscription on front free fly, a fine copy. (ids) "Of allthe arts that have been taught mankind, this is much the most general;in Britain particularly it is almost universal, since even the childrenof peasants are instructed in it. there are few that succeed eventolerably." Thomas Sheridan, son of Thomas Sheridan, friend of DeanSwift, was born at Quilca, in the county of Cavan, in 1721. See Webb.P475. ~ Elocution emerged as a formal discipline during the eighteenthcentury. One of its important figures was Thomas Sheridan, actor andfather of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Thomas Sheridan's lectures onelocution, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and his Lectures onReading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloudpassages from literature.

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Title: Lectures on the Art of Reading. In Two Parts.Containing: Part I. The Art of Reading Prose. Part II. The Art of ReadingVerse
Publisher: London. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1787
Binding: Hardcover

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