11) Kemble, Roger. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Kemble, Roger, 1721-1802, English actor and manager. During his years as the leader of a traveling company, he married (1753) Sarah Wood, 1735-1806, an actress. They...
12) 22247. Fiske, Minnie Maddern. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most...
13) 3656. Joseph P Kennedy. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...AUTHOR: Joseph P Kennedy QUOTATION: If there s anything I d hate as a son-in-law, it s an actor; and if there s anything I think I d hate worse than an actor as a...
14) Person (Latin, persona, a mask; personwtus, one who wears a mask, an
actor). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...connected with the word than there is any assumption of the body of Hamlet when an actor impersonates that character. 1...
15) Huston, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Huston, John, (hyoos´tn) (KEY) , 1906-87, American motion picture director, writer, and actor, b. Nevada, Mo. In many of his films, such as The Treasure of the Sierra...
16) Stanislavsky, Constantin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(knstntyen´ stnyislaf´ske) (KEY) , 1863-1938, Russian theatrical director, teacher, and actor, whose original name was Constantin Sergeyevich Alekseyev. He was cofounder...
17) so-called. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Don t follow so-called with quotation marks around the following noun. If he s a bad actor, then write either He s an actor or He s a so-called actor, not He s a...
18) protagonist. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. The main character in a drama or other literary work. 2. In ancient Greek drama, the first actor to engage in dialogue with the chorus, in later dramas playing...
19) acting. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of technique and/or an imaginative identification with the character on the part of the actor. In this way the full emotional weight of situations on stage be communicated...
20) On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to Their Fitness
for Stage Representation. Charles Lamb. 1909-14. English Essays: Sidney to
Macaulay. The Harvard Classics
...this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor s genius made them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night...
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