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- Title
«Bles'd if we pleased you, whom to please we live!»: Managers, Actors, and Actresses in Liverpool, 1770-1820.
- Authors
Consiglio, Cristina
- Abstract
The pace of theatrical life in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Liverpool was intense and tight, with a schedule that affected both the lives of managers, actors and actresses, and the management of every season. The provincial theatres were places where the players, while experiencing theatrical conditions different from those in the capital, might serve their apprenticeship, practise their skills and test the reaction of the public as well. After tracing the origins of the first theatres in Liverpool in the second half of the eighteenth century, the article focuses on the presence of managers such as Joseph Younger, Philip Mattocks, and Francis Aickin in Liverpool from 1772 until the end of the century, and their relation with actors of Kemble's and Siddons' calibre.
- Subjects
THEATRICAL managers; STAGE actors &; actresses; ENGLISH theater; THEATER history
- Publication
Questione Romantica, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p83
- ISSN
1125-0364
- Publication type
Article