{"product_id":"theatricals-john-watson-9781760418304","title":"Theatricals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea of retelling theatre stories began with a second-hand copy of Donald Sinden's \u003cem\u003eTheatrical Anecdotes\u003c\/em\u003e. Other anthologies, biographies and histories followed. Widening circles of biblio-graphies soon spread out into earlier anthologies and accounts, from practitioners within the theatre - Oxberry, Bunn, Wilkinson, Macready - as well as from the memoirs of ardent theatregoers - Pepys, Hunt, Moore, Haydon... But the remarkable degree to which certain stories are repeated again and again makes specific acknowledgment of sources impossible. For example, Macklin's final octogenarian appearance as Shylock, Barrymore's hurling of a fish from the stage, Charles Kemble's treatment of a crying child in the audience, Garrick's parsimony, Ralph Richardson's parrot, Barry's and Garrick's competing Romeos - these are typical of hundreds of set pieces which recur almost obsessively. And the same blunder or witticism may well be attributed to a surprisingly large cast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1760418307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760418304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ginninderra Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.30d","brand":"John Watson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486005932287,"sku":"9781760418304","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1ce7cb6-2a56-4075-8d77-7bd9da798e31.jpg?v=1778053038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/theatricals-john-watson-9781760418304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}