Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
Introduction
Illuminating a play’s text for the audience remains the primary task for actors, which they accomplish according to the nature of the literature they are called on to perform. A fiery melodrama with stock characters, for example, requires broad gestures and declamatory speech, whereas a realistic play with complex characterization necessitates a more lifelike approach. At the same time, actors, as the principal instruments of drama, reflect, as all artists do, the values, tastes, and fashions of the society in which they perform. Because a theater audience...
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