Download or read book Our Stage and Its Critics Classic Reprint written by Edward Fordham Spence and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Stage and Its Critics Hilst reading the proof-sheets of these articles Ihave been oppressed by the thought that they give a gloomy idea about the state of our Stage. Yet I am naturally sanguine. Indeed, no one taking a deep interest in our drama could have written for a score or so of years about it unless of a naturally sanguine temperament. There has been great progress during my time, yet we still are far from possessing a modern national drama creditable to us. Some imagine that the British have no inborn genius for writing drama, or acting it, and look upon those dramatists and players whose greatness cannot be denied as mere exceptions to a rule. Without alleging that at the moment we have a Shakespeare, a Garrick or a Siddons, I assert confidently that we own dramatists and players able, if rightly used, to make our theatre worthy of our country and also that the misuse of them is appalling. For very many years the history of the English stage has been chiefly a record of waste, of gross commercialism and of honest efforts ruined by adherence to mischievous traditions the Scottish and Irish stage have been mere reflections of our own. At the moment Ireland is making a brave and remarkably successful effort at emancipation, and during the last few years has laid the foundations of a National Theatre and built a good deal upon them. Scotland lags a little, yet the energy and enthusiasm of Mr Alfred Wareing and the citizens of Glasgow have enabled them to create an institution not unlikely to serve as the home of a real Scots drama. They offer to the native playwright an opportunity of showing that a national drama - not a drama merely echoing the drama of other lands - lies inherent in the race. Who knows that they may not induce that wayward man of genius, J. M. Barrie, to become the parent of Scots drama by honestly and sincerely using his rare gifts as dramatist in an effort to express the pathos and the humour, the courage and the shyness, the shrewdness and the imagination, and also the less agreeable qualities and characteristics of our brothers across the border. 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 Stage and Its Critics written by Edward Fordham Spence and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Our Stage and Its Critics by E F S of the Westminster Gazette written by Edward Fordham Spence and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" By Edward Fordham Spence CHAPTER I THE DRAMATIC CRITIC His Qualifications The production of a play in the Russian tongue renders topical a phrase once used, not unhappily, by Mr Cecil Raleigh concerning the qualifications of the dramatic critic. After listening to a somewhat extravagant speech about the duties of the critic, he said that the dramatic critic ought, apparently, to be a "polyglot archangel." During the last few years we have had plays in Russian, Japanese, Bavarian patois, Dutch, German, French and Italian, to say nothing of East End performances in Hebrew and Yiddish, which we neglect. Latin drama we hear at Westminster; a Greek company came to the Court but did not act. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Our Stage and Its Critics written by Edward Fordham Spence and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun book delves into a topic that is rarely discussed in the entertainment space—-that of the critic. It specifically talks about the proper way to be a theater critic. Aside from that, the book also discusses the behind-the-scenes aspects of stagework, and a chapter is also dedicated for stage actors to share their tricks of the trade.
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 Our Stage and Its Critics written by Edward Fordham Spence and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Stage and Its Critics by Edward Fordham Spence.
Download or read book The Stage in America 1897 1900 Classic Reprint written by Norman Hapgood and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stage in America 1897-1900 In writing this book, which is designed to describe, in what can be seen on the American stage to-day, those things of most importance to a thinking observer of the drama, I have incorporated much already printed in the Commercial Advertiser and the Bookman; a chapter on "the drama of ideas" from the Contemporary Review; one on the "syndicate" from the International Monthly; parts of two essays in the Atlantic Monthly; and a few lines from the Forum. To the editors of these publications thanks are due for permission to reprint. 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 Sixty Years of the Theater written by John Ranken Towse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories Macready, Forrest, the Keans, the Booths, Daven port and their contemporaries, will readily assent to the degeneracy of the modern theater in all matters of sheer artistry and histrioni'sm. It is only in scenic accessories, and in the lighter and less permanent varieties of drama that it has made any notable advance. Some attempt has been made herein to point out some of the main causes of this generally acknowledged decadence, and to indicate the most hopeful measures for its arrest. 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 Canonical Texts Of English Literary Criticism With Selections From Classical Poeticians written by Rangoon Kapoor and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study and Stage written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Study and Stage: A Year-Book of Criticism Were it not that Mr. Quiller Couch had already made use, and excellent use, of the title, I should have called this little book Adventures in Criticism. For it is one of the alleviations of the journalist-critic's in the main unenviable calling that it is above all things adventurous. He plods no mill-horse round of unvarying toil, but sallies forth day by day into the forest of contemporary literature, blissfully uncertain as to what good or evil chance may await him. Destiny, working for the most part through the instrumentality of Editors and Managers, metes out to him many a tedious and well-nigh degrading task, but docs not fail to intersperse a fair proportion of spirit-stirring and delightsome happenings. He never knows what adventure may await him round the next turn of the glade. It may be the championing of Beauty in distress, baited by a rabble rout of paynim Philistines. It may be an ambush set for him by some felon knight. It may be (and this is not the least agreeable contingency) a splintering of lances with some courteous comrade-in-arms, in defence of a contested Ideal. And ever and anon, in some richly-dight pavilion on a lilied lawn, aerial harmonics will allure him to a magic banquet, quickening alike to sense and soul. 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.
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Download or read book A View of the English Stage Or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms Classic Reprint written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A View of the English Stage or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms This edition of Hazlitt's View of the English Stage contains the whole of that book as first issued in 1818. The articles were selected by the author from his contributions to various newspapers, as he states in his preface, and were reprinted with the very slightest revision from the papers in which they first appeared, but with considerable omissions. They have been compared for this edition with the original newspapers, and those portions which were omitted in 1818 have been supplied between square brackets. The author's own notes are given: those which were in the periodical and in the reprint are marked "Original Note"; those which were in the paper but not in the volume are marked "Note in" (with the name of the journal); and those which first appeared in 1818 are marked "W. H." The dates at the head of the articles are those of the original publication, as that plan was adopted with more or less accuracy by the author. Many other contributions of Hazlitt to these newspapers have been identified with confidence almost amounting to certainty; only two of them are printed in the Appendix to this volume. 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 Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture written by Oskar Cox Jensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with specialisation in the early nineteenth century. The chapters, written by some of the leading experts in their individual disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career, spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours; from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery. Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian cultural production.
Download or read book Shakespeare on Page and Stage written by Stanley Wells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.
Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Allan H. Gilbert and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of literary criticism is no simple collection of fragments from great critics. It is, in a way, a documentary history of literary taste, or better, a documentary history of the taste of literary critics ... It contains material that is inaccessible in many university libraries and an index which ties together the various selections and gives the book a unity which most anthologies unfortunately lack ..." [Cover].
