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- Title
Casting Clara Fisher: Phrenology, Protean Farce, and the "Astonishing" Career of a Child Actress.
- Authors
Schweitzer, Marlis
- Abstract
This essay entwines the story of Clara Fisher, a child actress famous on the English stage in the early 19th century, to the work of phrenologist George Combe, notably the plaster cast of the head of Fisher. It discusses Combe's analysis of the ability of Fisher to act, the relationships between theater and science in the 19th century, and investigates the influence of the changing definitions of good acting and theories about the role of emotion in performance on phrenological thinking.
- Subjects
FISHER, Clara; PHRENOLOGY; STAGE actors &; actresses; CAREER changes
- Publication
Theatre Journal, 2016, Vol 68, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0192-2882
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/tj.2016.0034