Download or read book Another Book on the Theatre Classic Reprint written by George Jean Nathan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Another Book on the Theatre There is only one way in which parents may cure a child of this ambition to be a dramatic critic and that way is quickly to take him to New York and make him go to the theatre twice in succession. If, after this, the child is still alive, and still interested in the theatre, his parents may prepare themselves for the worst. As dutiful parents it then becomes their duty no longer to stand in the way Of their child's ambition and to give him the education meces sary to the work he has chosen as his life's career. This education essential to the popular and huan cial success of a modern dramatic critic - super imposes upon the aspirant a thorough understanding and appreciation of the following inviolable defini tions and rules: I. A dramatic criticism consists in so arranging the words and phrases, technique, nuance, brilliant, realism, play of ideas, com mercial, superficial, egregious, relentless, atmosphere symbolism, craftsmanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book THEATRE CLASSIC REPRINT written by WILLIAM PENN. STEPHENSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Theatre written by Oscar Gross Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Art of the Theatre Classic Reprint written by Edward Gordon Craig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Art of the Theatre Then there are other surprises, those engineers, those directors of journals, those managers of stores, those sea captains, men who startle one by suddenly putting in an appearance and expressing a sincere and hearty desire to join in the festivities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Future of the Theatre Classic Reprint written by John Palmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Future of the Theatre To-morrow, and to morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Theatre Today Classic Reprint written by Margaret Gemmell Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theatre Today An estimate of our current stage should not fail to take account of the work of the Federal Theatre Project which is functioning In twenty-nine states and has produced every kind of theatrical perform ance from opera to a circus, including several of the season's outstand ing New York successes. Nor should we ignore the arrival on Broad way after many vicissitudes, covering two years of planning and preparation, of Max Reinhardt's production of Franz Werfel's pageant of Jewish history, The Eternal Road. It is a moving spectacle and a triumph of stagecraft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Plays and Books of the Little Theatre Classic Reprint written by Frank Shay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plays and Books of the Little Theatre What is wanting in this volume the reader will only too soon discover for himself. I do not, however, wish to offer a faltering apology for the incompleteness of the book. In truth, it needs none. Nevertheless, a brief word of explanation may not be amiss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Repertory Theatre written by Percival Presland Howe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Repertory Theatre: A Record and a Criticism This book, then, is a deliberate blow on behalf of the repertory theatre. In the nature of things there cannot be a great deal of force behind it; that must be supplied by more influential critics, by kindly disposed magnates, and above all, by the practical worker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Classic Theatre written by Eric Bentley and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classical view, said Gilbert Murray, is "the view of a man whose training and tastes lead him to regard literature as one, and the great Greek and Roman writers as central forces in it." Now, though justice may have been done to Greek and Roman drama itself, many of us have only the haziest notion how the tradition continued. In performance it is possible that there was an unbroken tradition from ancient days to the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century. The commedia in turn laid the basis for modern comedy. Yet the dramas enacted by the Italian comedians remain unknown because they survived only in unreadable scenarios. For the present volume Leon Katz has made a conjectural reconstruction of the complete dialogue of one such scenario. While the players maintained the classical tradition before a popular audience, the writers revived Roman comedy for a courtly audience. Machiavelli's Mandrake is the crowning achievement of the revival. There was no Chinese wall between the popular and courtly traditions. Such a writer as Beolco belongs to both, and later the mingling of elements will be a matter of controversy. The greatest of the feuds was between Goldoni and Gozzi in the eighteenth century. The paradox is that, in retrospect, Gozzi, who championed the commedia, seems the more "literary" and "academic," while Goldoni, the supposed reformer, if not abolisher, of the commedia, can plausibly be presented by modern scholars as its restorer... The question: What is Theatre? arises at this point, and the best purpose this collection can serve is to make the reader ask such elemental questions. As in the engravings of Callot, we find in these texts the essence of dramatic art." --
Download or read book The Insurgent Theatre Classic Reprint written by Thomas H. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Insurgent Theatre In this book it has been my purpose to treat the recent events in the non-commercial theatre as these refer to organization and management. I have purposely made no attempt to deal with the literary aspects of plays written for and produced by the so-called "insurgent" theatres. This matter would raise a large and interesting set of questions, which are not, in my judgment, while the plays are in a condition of development, ripe for present treatment. Those who are interested in play lists will find repertories of the theatres represented in this book in the Appendix. I wish to express my gratitude to the directors of theatres and companies for the courtesy with which they have provided me with information. I am under particular obligation to Miss Helen Arthur, Mr. Sheldon Cheney, Mr. Charles Recht, and Mr. G. P. Baker for general material, and to Mr. John B.Andrews for information as to child-labour laws as they apply to the theatre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plays and the Theatre Classic Reprint written by Kai Jurgensen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plays and the Theatre This is how Clayton Hamilton ends his chapter, What is a Play? It is a neat statement and extremely correct, but for us who are not necessarily familiar with the meaning Of such phrases as struggle between human Wills, motivated by emotion rather than by intellect, and expressed in terms Of Objective action, it may seem a little too pat. Let us, therefore, take this statement apart and examine the meaning of each phrase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Second Nights written by Arthur Ruhl and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Second Nights: People and Ideas of the Theatre to-Day The first-nighter, as everybody knows, is a bored but witty person, with a black ribbon to his eye-glasses, who descends to his seat just before the curtain rises, and turns to survey the house ere he sits down. In New York, where theatres spring up overnight, he may be the large, red-necked man who supplied the concrete, but he is generally, at any rate, an insider, stirred by many things that pass the outsider by and inclined to be as concerned over the probable size of the audience on the third Tuesday as in the mere pleasure or nourishment to be had from the play. He is both spectator and participant, urging a new ship down the ways, and finds his interest divided perforce between the ship as a ship and the success of the launching. Author and players are waiting behind that closed curtain - be the play never so unimportant, there is mystery and excitement in the air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The New Movement in the Theatre Classic Reprint written by Sheldon Cheney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Movement in the Theatre Page 121 Staging in Its Relation to the Production as a Whole - The Fundamentals of the New Stage-craft - How They Are Attained - Examples of the Old and New School - Certain Architectural Details - Practitioners of the New Stage-craft - Gordon Craig and the Germans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Theatres To Day and Yesterday Classic Reprint written by Ruth Crosby Dimmick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday According to an account published by Lewis Hallam, when he reached New York the next year, Upton had quite neglected the business he was sent on from England. (it was generally suo posed that Hallam had supplied him with funds with which to build a theatre in New York) and had joined forces with a com pany of comedians from Philadelphia. During the season of 1751-2, Upton was seen in New York with the referred to company of comedians, and appeared as star in a number of Shakespearian plays, opening in Othello and offering Richard Provoked Husband, Venice Pre served, Lethe and Miller of Mansfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the American Theatre Classic Reprint written by George Overcash Seilhamer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the American Theatre These extracts sufficiently indicate the literary and dramatic quality of the production, and Show that the loss Of The Mercenary Match need not be deplored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Little Theatre in the United States Classic Reprint written by Constance D'Arcy Mackay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Little Theatre in the United States A description of every Little Theatre in the United States that the author could find is given, including the achievements, special significance, policy, repertory, and scenic contribution of each one. Since the Little Theatre movement is a growing thing, changes in its history are constantly taking place. It is in a state of transition and can only be written of in terms of transition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of the American Theatre Classic Reprint written by William Dunlap and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the American Theatre Colley cibber, in his Apology, the best book ever written on the subject of the theatre, thus speaks of the increase of play houses in London, and the effect on the actors and the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
