Download or read book Modern Drama in Europe Classic Reprint written by Storm Jameson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Drama in Europe AN attempt to reconstruct the dramatic pro gress of the last half-century might be justified on two grounds. There are indications that the drama of these years is already nearing definite reaction. This makes it possible to regard it as the rise and decline of forces even now ceasing to operate. With this recognition of coming change, a closer study of the period in question discovers lines along which the drama has developed. This essay is the attempt to trace those lines, and to suggest that the history of the drama during the past fifty years has been the history of a swift rise, and a slow descent to disintegration and unproductive repetition. The dominant dramatic art of the period has taken the form labelled' realism' in current critical cant; and almost contemporary with this in its origin, there is clearly to be seen a strain of revolt, which has made use of symbolism and of many of the trappings of romance. This spirit of revolt has assisted in the disintegration of the prevailing drama without offering much of value in its place. 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 Modern Drama written by Edgar White Burrill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Modern Drama: A Course of Forty Readings in European and American Drama Beginning With Ibsen and Continuing to the Present Day The work in the course will be conducted by correspondence. The student will be provided with the textbook and the requiredplays. He will then do each lesson, write the answers to the ques tions under section C in his notebook, which may be called for upon request of the instructor at any time, and write the theme that is due after every sixth lesson, six being required for the complete course. These themes the instructor will read and grade, returning them to the student, with a summarized comment. In beginning work on each lesson, the student should first read the required assignment, A, carefully and then whatever discussion occurs under section B. 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 Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage written by John Gassner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage: Edited With an Introduction Explanations do not alter the character of a book, but they may be useful in defining its limits. The present anthology is not an attempt to represent the modern European drama. Instead, it presents that drama as an element or factor in American professional stage production that my Crown anthologies of contemporary American plays have hitherto neglected. The neglect was intentional in my Best American Plays collections, which presented, and will continue to present, exclusively American playwriting. Readers of these compilations would have formed confused impressions of the qualities of American playwriting if European plays had been included for the sake of swelling my periodic chronicle of the American stage. It was long apparent, however, that the chronicle would be flagrantly incomplete unless it were supplemented by one or more volumes of European plays. The present volume is my first effort to enlarge the record of American stage production since World War I, and the character of the anthology may well explain why I postponed publishing it. The conventional compilations of plays from the time of Ibsen to the time of Sartre would not serve my purpose. These books and I compiled one of them, A Treasury (j the Theatre, myself are intended for the study of the European or the modern drama. The present anthology is intended primarily for the study of the American stage, as will any sequel to this volume that may appear later. I say study, because a comparison between the plays printed here and their original form will instruct the careful reader about Broadway's way of dealing with its imports. It may also dismay him at times, and that can be instructive, too. But it would be disingenuous for me to say that in preparing this anthology I hoped to instruct the general reader instead of merely interesting him. At most I wanted to show him another face of the American theatre, even if, in many instances, it may turn out to be the same face that some of us adore and others deplore. I could not have convinced my publishers to print so large a volume in so inflationary a period if I had been unable to offer a bounty to the public that takes its pleasure wherever it (can find it. 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 of the Book 1480 1880 written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Download or read book Modern Drama in Europe written by Storm Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Dramatists Classic Reprint written by Ashley Dukes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Dramatists This book aims at a critical study of the modern European Theatre. It is not intended as a guide to the popular authors of the day, either in England or abroad; indeed, many successful playwrights are not even mentioned in its pages. It is dogmatic, because it is written from a definite standpoint, and its judgments depend upon an absolute standard of value. T 0 write of any group of authors, dramatic or otherwise, without such a standard, is to debase the coinage of criticism and to insult the artist. I need not define my criterion here, for I have endeavoured to make it clear in the open ing chapters. It is enough to say that it excludes the vast majority of living dramatic authors, and that in excluding. 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 Chief European Dramatists Classic Reprint written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chief European Dramatists A collection of masterpieces of the drama extending over a score of centuries serves to make plain something which ought never to be overlooked. The principles of dramatic art are unchanging through the ages, the same to-day in Paris or in New York that they were in Athens twenty-four hundred years ago. They are to be deduced from the trage dies of Sophocles as clearly as from the tragedies of Shakespeare, from the comedies of Mollere as obviously as from the comedies of Lessing and Goldoni and Augier; and they are all the result of the fact that a dramatist always composes his plays with the desire and the intent that they shall be performed by actors in a theater and before an audi ence. He takes thought of the performers of his own time and city; and Sophocles and Moliere, while they were creating characters for the appreciation of posterity, were also preparing parts for contemporary performers in whom they had confidence. He adjusts the stories he tells on the stage to the physical conditions of the only playhouse with which he is familiar. And he feels constrained always to choose the kind of story which will arouse and retain the interests of his contemporaries in his own country, giving no thought to the possible likings of any other audience either abroad or in the future. 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 Modern Drama in Europe written by Storm Jameson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Neo Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe written by Jan Bloemendal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ca. 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread around Europe. It was often used as a means to educate young boys in Latin, in acting and in moral issues. Comedies, tragedies and mixed forms were written. The Societas Jesu employed Latin drama in their education and public relations on a large scale. They had borrowed the concept of this drama from the humanist and Protestant gymnasia, and perfected it to a multi media show. However, the genre does not receive the attention that it deserves. In this volume, a historical overview of this genre is given, as well as analyses of separate plays. Contributors include: Jan Bloemendal, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Cora Dietl, Mathieu Ferrand, Howard Norland, Joaquín Pascual Barea, Fidel Rädle, and Raija Sarasti Willenius.
Download or read book Modern Drama in Europe written by Storm Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chief Contemporary Dramatists Second Series written by Thomas Herbert Dickinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays From the Recent Drama of England, Ireland, America, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Scandinavia This volume contains eighteen complete plays from the drama of England, Ireland, the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, and the Scandinavian countries. Together with the first volume of Chief Contemporary Dramatists, issued in 1915, there are now made available in convenient form thirty-eight plays of the first order of excellence from the theater of Europe and America. In the choice of plays the term contemporary has been interpreted strictly. Of the eighteen plays in this book, ene third were produced in the decade between 1910 and 1920; all save three are prod ucts of the twentieth century. Of these works six have not before been published in English and are here made available for the first time in America. Comparing the plays in this volume with those which constituted the first series of Chief Contemporary Dramatists, some interesting tendencies in the theater of the western world are disclosed. While the thesis or problem play, derived from France and enforced by Ibsen, was predominant in the eighteen-nineties and the earlier years of the new cen tury, the form disappears as the century approaches its second decade. The present volume contains no single distinct exemplar of this type of play. The result Of the freeing of the play from the necessity of being socially serviceable has been greatly to enrich the theater With new interests both in structure and content, and to call into the craft of play making men from arts outside the theater. 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 Masterpieces of Modern Drama Foreign Abridged in Narrative With Dialogue of the Great Scenes Classic Reprint written by John Alex Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Masterpieces of Modern Drama Foreign Abridged in Narrative With Dialogue of the Great Scenes 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 Chief European Dramatists written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty One Plays From the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway; From 500 B. C. To 1879 A. D.; Selected and Edited With Notes, Biographies, and Bibliographies A collection of masterpieces of the drama extending over a score of centuries servu ti make plain something which ought never to be overlooked. The principles of dramafi art are unchanging through the ages, the same to-day in Paris or in New York that the: were in Athens twenty-four hundred years ago. They are to be deduced from the trag dies of Sophocles as clearly as from the tragedies of Shakespeare, from the comedim II Moliere as obviously as from the comedies of leasing and Goldoni and Augier; and the are all the result of the fact that a dramatist always composes his plays with the deair and the intent that they shall be performed by actors in a theater and before an and ence. He takes thought of the performers of his own time and city; and Sopho an Moliere, while they were creating characters for the appreciation of posterity, were ale preparing parts for contemporary performers in whom they had confidence. He adjust the stories he tells on the stage to the physical conditions of the only playhouse wit which he is familiar. And he feels constrained always to choose the kind of story whio will arouse and retain the interests of his contemporaries in his own country, giving n thought to the possible likings of any other audience either abroad or in the future. 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 Contemporary Drama of France Classic Reprint written by Frank Wadleigh Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Contemporary Drama of France This volume Offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three decades, fromothe opening of the theatre-libre Of Antoine to the conclusion Of the World War. It attempts the classification, analysis, and criti cism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors. Among these are included a few Belgians whose pieces, written in French, have been as familiar to Paris as to Brussels. Although the productions of the period be less striking than those of the Romantic era, and less likely than those of the Classic to endure, they are more numerous and more vitally interesting to the generation whose failures, foibles, and aspirations they depict. 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 Light of the World a Modern Drama Classic Reprint written by Guy Bolton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Light of the World a Modern Drama Other villagers, various characters in the Passion Play, Children, Elders, Choir, etc. 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 Modern European Drama written by Modern and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Drama written by Joachim Küpper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.
