Bristol, United Kingdom

Drama and Acting

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University website: www.uwe.ac.uk
Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Acting
The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott, The Talisman, Introduction.
Acting
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
George Moore, Mummer-Worship.
Acting
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore quoted in George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the fifties.
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