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Book Art  Literature  and the Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Art Literature and the Drama Classic Reprint written by Margaret Fuller Ossoli and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art, Literature, and the Drama The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, lately published, have inspired many readers with a profound regret that they had not, during her life, made or improved the acquaintance of one whom impartial judgment must pronounce the most capable and noteworthy American woman the world has yet known. Criticism has not spared the writers of that Memoir; yet no critic, so far as I am aware, has hinted a doubt that it portrays, truly and vividly, its heroine, though she had previously been more widely misapprehended - perhaps I should say uncomprehended - than any of her cotemporaries. Especially is that portion of the Memoirs contributed by Ralph Waldo Emerson entitled to the praise of being the frankest, fairest, most effective biography of our day, exhibiting its subject exactly as she lived and moved among us some few years ago, with her lofty virtues and her conspicuous faults, her conversation Which charmed and her manner that repelled; so that she Was at the same moment idolized and shunned, reverenced and ridiculed, by different sets of cultivated and considerate persons Whom she met in society; and neither without obvious reasons. 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.

Book Art of the Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Art of the Drama Classic Reprint written by Fred B. Millett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art of the Drama This book is not a history of the drama. Nor is it a manual for the multitudes who aspire to write plays and sell them. It is a tool for the use of those who wish to deepen their understanding and enhance their enjoyment of plays witnessed in the theater or read in the study. As a textbook, it may prove useful in the study of the history of the drama or of the drama as a literary type, or in such a course as the Introduction to the Study of Drama as given at the University of Chicago. The book is divided into three parts, each of which emphasizes a particular aspect of the drama. Part I is mainly devoted to the historical aspect of the drama, the spirit of the age, the nature of the theater and audience in each of the major periods in dramatic his tory. It also contains a general discussion of the major forms or types of drama - tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and farce - and a more detailed consideration of the types of drama and comedy characteristic of each period. Part II considers the major modes of drama - classicism, romanticism, realism, sentimentalism, symbol ism, and expressionism. Part III concerns the major problems of dramatic technique and the characteristic solutions of those prob lems in the various types and modes and periods of drama. There is no question that it would have been more logical to con sider first the technical, second the aesthetic, and third the historical approach to the study of drama, and students of a logical turn of mind will have no difficulty in using the text in that order. But we have come to feel that it will, in general, be preferable for the student to master the facts in Part I before he ventures upon the more theoretical considerations of Parts II and III. 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.

Book The Drama

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  • Author : Alfred Bates
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2016-08-02
  • ISBN : 9781333108366
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Drama written by Alfred Bates and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization It is singular, to say the least, that the most famous tragedy of the century was written by a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Rev. John Home, who by it won applause, but lost his pulpit. The merit of his work, Dong/as, certainly entitles it to a place among our Classics. 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.

Book The Artist

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  • Author : H. L. Mencken
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780267422562
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book The Artist written by H. L. Mencken and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Artist: A Drama Without Words In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only, and no performance, representa tion, production, recitation, public reading or radio broadcasting may be given except by special arrange ment with samuel french, 25 West 4sth Street, New York, N. Y. 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.

Book Art of the Play

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  • Author : Alan Seymour Downer
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-12-21
  • ISBN : 9780484301381
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Art of the Play written by Alan Seymour Downer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art of the Play: An Anthology of Nine Plays As for The Tempest, Freud, Marx, and the cultural anthropologists would be as misleading as the realists or the gaudy showmen. I fancy, he said, that if you consider it as a Masque and not a play, and recog nize the difference of treatment and tone, it comes out all right. He was thinking of the problem of presenting the play in a theater, but the same problem faces any reader who wishes to approximate something like the full experience intended for him by the artist. The present volume is intended both for the student of literature as an introduction to the drama as an art, and for the student of theater as an introduction to the problems presented by the drama as an historical, lit crary, and esthetic phenomenon. It is assumed that understanding and producing drama are very nearly synonymous, and that the end and pur pose of seeing and reading a play is to experience the work as a whole. It is further assumed that this experience is available to the trained reader. 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.

Book The Development of the Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Development of the Drama Classic Reprint written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of the Drama Of the ten lectures which make up the present volume, one or more have been delivered during the past two or three years at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at the Brooklyn Institute, at Columbia University, and before the National Institute of Arts and Letters. 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.

Book The New Spirit in Drama Art  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The New Spirit in Drama Art Classic Reprint written by Huntly Carter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Spirit in Drama Art My own idea of the finest form of national drama which this country will see adopted comprises a rhythmic concep tion of play, player, decoration, and music. This drama will be represented in a rhythmic form of theatre. Everything henceforth is to be orchestrated to produce a single but infinitely varied total eflect. We need a stage which lends itself to the simple and single vision, that brings even the most unintelligent spectator into the action of the drama and holds him there, that promotes a direction of effort on the part of all concerned which will unify the results. It will be found that the present search in Europe is for artistic rather than for rhythmic results. The pioneers of the new movement are chiefly concerned with attaining artistic simplification, unity, and suggestion. They are interpreting these ideas in the endeavour to bring order and beauty into the theatre. So far they have not made the attempt to seize the great rhythm of life and to set the theatre and drama in motion with it. But this will come. Their exact interpre tation of the new ideas will be found in the chapter entitled Summary and Suggestions. 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.

Book Art of the Drama

Download or read book Art of the Drama written by Fred B. Millett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art of the Drama This book is not a history of the drama. Nor is it a manual for the multitudes who aspire to write plays and sell them. It is a tool for the use of those who wish to deepen their understanding and enhance their enjoyment of plays witnessed in the theater or read in the study. As a textbook, it may prove useful in the study of the history of the drama or of the drama as a literary type, or in such a course as the Introduction to the Study of Drama as given at the University of Chicago. The book is divided into three parts, each of which emphasizes a particular aspect of the drama. Part I is mainly devoted to the historical aspect of the drama, the spirit of the age, the nature of the theater and audience in each of the major periods in dramatic history. It also contains a general discussion of the major forms or types of drama - tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and farce - and a more detailed consideration of the types of drama and comedy characteristic of each period. Part II considers the major modes of drama - classicism, romanticism, realism, sentimentalism, symbolism, and expressionism. Part III concerns the major problems of dramatic technique and the characteristic solutions of those problems in the various types and modes and periods of drama. There is no question that it would have been more logical to consider first the technical, second the æsthetic, and third the historical approach to the study of drama, and students of a logical turn of mind will have no difficulty in using the text in that order. But we have come to feel that it will, in general, be preferable for the student to master the facts in Part I before he ventures upon the more theoretical considerations of Parts II and III. Both teacher and student will observe that this book makes no attempt to treat comprehensively any particular plays or the work of any particular playwrights, although many plays and many playwrights are drawn on for illustrative material. Rather is the book intended for use in connection with the reading and study of any series of plays in which the teacher or student may be interested. Inevitably, the plays, playwrights, and movements of each major period in the drama are discussed in each of the three parts of the book. But the very full index will make it easy for the reader to turn rapidly to our consideration, under various heads, of a particular play, playwright, or period. 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.

Book List of Books Chiefly on the Drama and Literary Criticism  Classic Reprint

Download or read book List of Books Chiefly on the Drama and Literary Criticism Classic Reprint written by Columbia University Libraries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from List of Books Chiefly on the Drama and Literary Criticism The unhappy favourite; or, The earl of Essex; a tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal by their majesty's servants. London, 1685. Sq. 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.

Book Art of the Drama

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  • Author : Fred B. Millett
  • Publisher : Irvington Pub
  • Release : 1947-12
  • ISBN : 9780891970347
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Art of the Drama written by Fred B. Millett and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1947-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book English Drama Classic Reprint written by Felix E. Schelling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Drama In the following pages, an endeavour is made to tell, in scale and with a due regard to proportion, the story of English drama from its beginnings in the miracle play and morality to the performance of Sheridan's Critic, in the year 1779. A con cluding chapter presents a sketch of the course of the drama since that time, in outline and by way of suggestion, and no more. To have completed the book on the same scale would have demanded another volume. But a better reason for the course here pursued is to be found in the circumstance that, by the time of Sheridan, almost the last vestige of the original dramatic impulse had been lost, the impulse that begot Mar lowe and Shakespeare and carried the great traditions of their art over the Restoration and into the next century; and when the modern revival came, inspired by a renewed appreciation of the great Elizabethans, it was manifestly not a revival on the stage, but in a new species of literature, the drama of the study, as different from the original parent stock as the novel is dif ferent from it or from the drama capable of successful presenta tion on the stage. 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.

Book The Drama

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  • Author : Theodore Ballou Hinckley
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-03-29
  • ISBN : 9780259093923
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Drama written by Theodore Ballou Hinckley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Drama: A Quarterly Review of Dramatic Literature; August, 1915 Each epoch has its particular way of thinking and its. Particular plays. Our epoch is that of the social play. The material progress of civilization, reducing the distance and obstacles which hitherto separated nations, has resulted in bringing us closer to each other, arousing our common interests, stimulating those mental and spiritual qualities which unite the Old World with the New. Art is in my opinion only that sympathetic note which we seek in those who not many years ago were total strangers to us. You have made a most wise and careful choice among the works of Emile Augier. 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.

Book Machiavelli

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  • Author : Franklin Pierce Norton
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780267345151
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Machiavelli written by Franklin Pierce Norton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Machiavelli: A Drama Technical names used by dramatic players, to denote the places for coming on, or going off, the stage, and for locations of, and movements of, players while on it. These technical names, appear throughout this play of Machiavelli. In order to give the reader an object lesson of their actual use; but ordinarily they are only put in the manuscripts from which the players study their parts. For the sake of brevity, these technical names are always represented by their initials only. If at any time you are in doubt about the meaning of these initials - you can refer to this table. 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.

Book The Little Review  Vol  1

Download or read book The Little Review Vol 1 written by Margaret C. Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Little Review, Vol. 1: Literature, Drama, Music, Art; March, 1914 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. - The note-books of Samuel Butler. Feminism? A clear-thinking mag azine can have only one attitude; the degree of ours is ardent! 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.

Book A Short History of the English Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book A Short History of the English Drama Classic Reprint written by Benjamin Brawley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the English Drama This book makes no special effort to be either original or profound. It aims simply to set forth in brief compass the main facts that one might wish to have at hand in his first course in the English Drama. The great revival of interest in this subject within recent years has produced many noteworthy studies, especially in the literature of the age of Elizabeth; but, singularly enough, most of the books that have been written have been for those who already knew most about the subject. The present work pre supposes only that the student has had an elementary col lege course in the history of English Literature, and with just so much as a basis it endeavors to assist him as he passes on to the study of the greatest of the forms that this literature has so far assumed. 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.

Book The Critic and the Drama  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Critic and the Drama Classic Reprint written by George Jean Nathan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Critic and the Drama The imprisoning Of it in a tangible dream. Criticism is the dream book. All art is a kind of subconscious madness expressed in terms of sanity; criticism is essential to the interpretation of its mysteries, for about everything truly beautiful there is ever some thing mysterious and disconcerting. Beauty is not always immediately recognizable as beauty; what Often passes for beauty is mere infatuation; living beauty is like a love that has outlasted the middle-years of life, and has met triumphantly the test Of time, and faith, and cynic meditation. For beauty is a sleep walker in the endless corridors Of the wakeful world, uncertain, groping, and not a little. 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.

Book Crumbling Idols

Download or read book Crumbling Idols written by Hamlin Garland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Crumbling Idols: Twelve Essays on Art, Dealing Chiefly With Literature, Painting and the Drama This book is not a history; it is not a formal essay: it is a series of suggestions. I do not assume to speak for any one but myself, being an individualist, and the power of this writing to destroy or build rests upon its reasonableness, simply. It does not carry with it the weight of any literary hierarchy. 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.