The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage
- Author: Goff, Moira
It exemplifies dance scholarship of a rare kind: Ms. Goff spent 20 years investigating even the slightest details of Santlow's life and career and wrote about her dances from experience, step... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- The young dancer, 1694?-1709
- Dancer and actress, 1709-1712
- James Craggs
- Theatre rivalries, 1713-1715
- 'Dramatic entertainments of dancing', 1715-1719
- Barton Booth
- Business as usual, 1719-1723
- Mimes and pantomimes, 1723-1728
- 'The incomparable Mrs Booth', 1728-1733
- 'Happy beyond expression', 1733-1773
- Appendix: glossary of 18th-century dance terms
- Bibliography
- Index.