The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice

€œThe theatre scholar€™s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe€™s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.€€”Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (1755€“1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like€”an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures€”but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor€™s voice actually sounded. In lively an