The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice - Theater Theory & Performance Analysis | Perfect for Drama Students & Theater Historians
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The theatre scholars daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoes account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (17551831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked likean endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculpturesbut what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actors voice actually sounded. In lively an
Customer Reviews
This is a wonderful book. The book is about Sarah Siddons, but is also about Pascoe the literary scholar's comically doomed search to discover a lost soundscape. Reading this book made me think about Romantic theatre differently, but it also made me perk up to the sounds all around me. Pascoe historicizes diverse contexts of listening and hearing and theorizes about the intensity and variety of audience pleasures. The book itself is a pleasure to read, a lovely, loitering investigation of loss and also, quite unexpectedly, funny. I wish more critics wrote like this.
