Theatrical Anecdotes Peter Hay

Anecdotes are almost as old as theatre. Throughout much of its twenty-five centuries of recorded history, the stage has been blessed with real characters as fascinating as any invented by a dramatist. Spinning stories around them became the players' chief form of entertainment. Plagued by poverty, the excesses of liquor, and every other known infirmity, holed up in flea-ridden lodgings and shabby green rooms, these colorful vagabonds kept alive the peculiar glories and miseries of their calling. And, incidentally, they provided us with a motherlode of curious traditions and entertaining table-talk, piquant gossip and instructive anecdotes. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Theatrical Anecdotes (Peter Hay)