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9780892365562

A Passion for Performance; Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists

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  • ISBN13:

    9780892365562

  • ISBN10:

    0892365560

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary

A Passion for Performance features three lively essays--by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, and Shearer West--that explore the life and career of the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), who was renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances. This lavishvolume also illuminates her relationships with a number of artists who portrayed her, bringing together fifty-six portraits of Siddons including works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, and Gilbert Stuart, along with a chronology of the actress' life.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Deborah Gribbon
A Sarah Siddons Chronology xii
Robyn Asleson
The Public and Private Roles of Sarah Siddons
1(40)
Shearer West
``She Was Tragedy Personified'': Crafting the Siddons Legend in Art and Life
41(56)
Robyn Asleson
``A Sublime and Masterly Performance'': The Making of Sir Joshua Reynold's Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
97(44)
Sheelley Bennett
Mark Leonard
Narayan Khandekar
Index 141

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