Author: NORTHROP, HENRY DAVENPORT (COMPILER AND EDITOR)
Title: The Modern Speaker Or Complete Manual of Elocution Being a Choice Treasury of New and Popular Recitations, Readings, Dialogues, Original and Adapted Comedies, Tableaux, Etc.
Description: Philadelphia, PA: J. H. Moore Company, 1896. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There is one small nick / frayed spot to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The covers have spots of ground-in dirt and one spot of fading to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with photographs of people in dramatic poses. "In Western classical rhetoric, elocution was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, which was the art of delivering speeches. Orators were trained not only on proper diction, but on the proper use of gestures, stance, and dress. (Another area of rhetoric, elocutio, was unrelated to elocution and, instead, concerned the style of writing proper to discourse. ) Elocution emerged as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. One of its important figures was Thomas Sheridan, actor and father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Thomas Sheridan's lectures on elocution, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and his Lectures on Reading (1775) , provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. Another actor, John Walker, published his two-volume Elements of Elocution in 1781, which provided detailed instruction on voice control, gestures, pronunciation, and emphasis. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

Keywords: Drama Henry Davenport Northrop The Delsarte System Francois Delsarte Movement Dance Acting elocution


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