The 1885 book that graphed the human face into 81 expressions

The Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression is an acting manual, first published in 1885, that set out to chart every movement a human body can make. Genevieve Stebbins, an American actress, wrote it after training under Steele MacKaye, who had studied in Paris with Francois Delsarte, a French singer and orator who died in 1871 without publishing his method. - Read the rest

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