Cultural Theory

IT by Joseph R. Roach

IT

Joseph R. Roach

Rights: World
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An illuminating study of the elusive quality of charm, animal magnetism, or charisma possessed by extraordinarily interesting people through the ages, IT criss-crosses centuries and continents with a deep playfulness that entertains whilke it enlightens. IT includes guest appearances by Samuel Pepys, Flo Ziegfeld, Johnny Depp, Charles II, Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow, the Second Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, Michael Jackson, Lady Di, Macheath, and Eliza Doolittle, among others.

Joseph Roach is the Charles C. and Dorthea S. Dilley Professor of Theater at Yale University and a recent recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award. He is the author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, winner of the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, and The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, which won the Barnard Hewitt Award in Theater History.

April 2007
264 pages