THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. Addressed to Young Men.
by Keddie, William
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First edition.
William Keddie [1809-1877] was a Scottish editor, collector, scientist and author. Keddie quotes contemporary and earlier critics views on theatre and its pernicious effects on the audience, especially on the minds of the young. A lecturer to the Young Men's Christian Association recounts: "I had occasion to investigate the books of a Penitentiary last year, and I was told, without qualification, that the majority of the inmates... were first seduced from the paths of virtue at theatres, races or tea-gardens." However, Keddie's book impresses one as a history of one aspect of theatre rather than a moral tract. He ranges widely with passages on the immorality of Shakespeare's plays, the character of Falstaff, the actor Macready as a reformer of theatrical evils, the profligacy of actor Edmund Kean, the singer Jenny Lind who was persuaded to leave the stage [no doubt for moral reasons] and the actor Morgan Stanley who fully embraced the theatre but late came to recognize its deleterious effects on the audience.
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- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
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- Title
- THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. Addressed to Young Men.
- Author
- Keddie, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Glasgow, Scotland: Glass and Duncan, 1853.
- Date Published
- 1853.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- THEATRE; THEATRE; STAGE; MORALITY; IMMORALITY; THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. ADDRESSED TO YOUNG MEN; WILLIAM KEDDIE; SCOTTISH AUTHOR; NINETEEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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