'Playing is a science': Eighteenth-century actors' manuals and the proto-sociology of emotion

British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-31

  Cassidy, Tanya ^a   Brunström, Conrad ^a  

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EID: 61449561443     PISSN: 0141867X     EISSN: 17540208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2002.tb00242.x     Document Type: Review

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