Download or read book The Theatres of Paris Classic Reprint written by J. Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theatres of Paris A new piece is advertised, all Paris flies there the curtain rises, the actors appear, the friends of the author applaud, the enemies of his person or his talent hawk or blow their noses. They go to supper; those of the guests who could not be pres ent in the theatre, ask about the success of the novelty. 'tis pitiable, or 'tis delicious, says a mer milleux, who in his life never judged anything but by contagion. From the end of the table a pretty woman confirms his judgment, only adding that the hair of the actress was very badly dressed. Tem pom matantur, but might not this paragraph have been written in this year of grace 1880? It is not only in France, alas, that people are prone to judge by contagion. 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 Peeps at Great Cities written by Margery Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Peeps at Great Cities: Paris Paris does not set itself to imitate other cities. It has its own manners and customs, its own ways of doing things, and you must take it as it is. If youfind some inconveniences, you will put up with them for the sake of all else that Paris gives you - its beau tiful streets and gardens, its museums, its art galleries, its theatres, and amusements. Paris is one of the richest cities in the world, and its wealth is added to constantly by the numbers who come here on business or pleasure. It is the visitor who supports very largely the commerce of the city. Fortunes are spent here yearly in clothes alone, for Paris has always been the centre of the world's fashions. From all over the globe people who have money to Spend come to Paris to spend it. In a sense it is the playground of other nations, for in no other city is the pleasure - seeker so catered for at every turn. To pass along the Grand Boulevard of an evening, at an hour when the audiences are dispersing from the theatres, and every cafe and restaurant is a blaze of lights, one might well imagine that the majority of people here had no other aim than to amuse them selves. Gaiety is in the very air of Paris, and relaxa tion, after the day's business is over, is an actual necessity to countless hundreds. Nowhere else do people work so hard or enjoy themselves so whole heartedly. 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 French Dramatists of the 19th Century Classic Reprint written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Dramatists of the 19th Century I take pleasure in expressing my thanks here to a friend; who, in spite of 'our constant disagreement as to the relative value of M. Augier and M. Dumas, has lent me the aid of his literary skill and of his knowledge of the modern French drama, as he did before, when the Theatres of Paris was passing through the press. 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 Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. 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 Romances of the French Theatre Classic Reprint written by Francis Gribble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Romances of the French Theatre This book is not intended as - and is unlikely to be mistaken for - a philosophical disquisition on the aesthetics of the stage. Its purpose is chie y to tell stories; but to tell them without suppressing the material facts necessary to a sound judgment of the rights of the case and a well-informed criticism of certain aspects of life. It ought, of course, to be super uous for a bio grapher to justify himself for telling the truth; but, as a matter of fact, biographers are continually getting into trouble with critics of a certain school of thought for doing so. They alone among men of letters are sometimes reproached for refusing to deceive their readers. Historians, for instance, are expected not only to tell the truth if they happen to know it, but also to take a great deal of trouble to ascertain it. They can burrow in archives with impunity, and in full confidence that they will be commended for their industry and not accused of grubbing up Old scandals, or told that, when they make unpleasant discoveries, they ought to keep their knowledge to themselves. 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 Shadows of Old Paris Classic Reprint written by G. Duval and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shadows of Old Paris To most Anglo-Saxons and Americans, Paris of the Twentieth Century is almost as familiar as their native cities. Its crowded Boulevards, brilliant cafes, theatres, and shops are the playground of hundreds of thousands of English-speaking tourists, whose yearly trip to the "Gay City" is a regular chapter in the programme of diversion. Though every man is not a Frenchman, each may become, to a certain extent, a Parisian; for the asphalt is hospitable to all nationalities alike, if they will but bring with them a capacity for enjoyment and the wherewithal to pay for it liberally. Yet, amongst the crowds of idlers and pleasure-seekers, of students even, who make the French capital temporarily their home, there are few lovers of tradition curious enough to turn from the dazzling modern city of pleasure, and plunge into the dingy Paris of the past, itself a town within a town, rapidly being swallowed up by the hydra-headed demon of improvement, with its insatiable appetite and power of destruction. Along the quays, some of the older houses yet remain; in the streets adjoining, slumbering amid gardens, lie the stately homes of the nobility, a few still occupied by the great families who have inhabited them for generations. But they are fast disappearing, and many have fallen from their high estate to serve as warehouses, or for commercial purposes, or, even, as tenements for the poorest classes of artisans and workmen. Here and there, in the narrow streets of a sordid quarter, mouldy with grime and dampness, a proud frontage will rear its graceful proportions, keeping, though in dilapidated surroundings, its birthright of dignity and beauty. 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 Apropos of Women and Theatres written by Olive Logan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Apropos of Women and Theatres: With a Paper or Two on Parisian Topics If I should remark, apropos of the interference of noisy man at woman's meetings, that there is an old adage about two men he cooks spoiling the broth: that's in fun. 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 Old Paris Its Social Historical and Literary Associations written by Henry Charles Shelley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Paris; Its Social, Historical, and Literary Associations: Including an Account of the Famous Cabarets, Hotels, Cafes, Salons, Clubs, Pleasure Gardens, Fairs and Fetes, and the Theatres of the French Capital in Bygone Times Owing to the. Repeated transformation of the aspect of Paris, and the bewildering frequency of changes in the names of the streets, it has been thought best to adhere 111 the main to that broad topographical division of the city for which the Seine is responsible. This simple classification is the more excusable because practically all the inns, taverns, cafes, pleasure-gardens, theatres, and other buildings figuring in this book have been demolished. It is an exploration in the spirit, then, and not in the body, to which the reader is invited. 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 Englishman Returned From Paris written by Samuel Foote and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Englishman Returned From Paris: Being the Sequel to the Englishman in Paris, a Farce, in Two Acts, as Performed at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Tho' to be born a Briton be bis crime, He's manufactured in another clime. 'Tis Buck begs leave once more to come before ye, The little subject of a former story, How chang'd, how fashion'd, whether brute or beau, We trust the following scenes will fully shew. For them and him vie your indulgence crave, 'Tis ours still to sin on, and yours to save. 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 Career of Dion Boucicault written by Townsend Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les Femmes Fortes Classic Reprint written by Victorien Sardou and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Les Femmes Fortes Les femms fortes, played for the first time on December 31, 1860, at the Theatre du Vaudeville, in Paris, is remarkably well adapted to usage in both col leges and schools for either boys or girls. In the first place, it is one of Sardou's most typical plays and about the only one which can be given in toto without a single cut in the text. Secondly, it deals with a subject which is bound to interest the American student, treat ing, as it does, of a comparison of French and American customs and education, and with an American as the hero. Thirdly, thejdialogue is extremely witty through out the play, and contains a large and particularly prac tical vocabulary. 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 Annals of the French Stage Vol 1 of 2 written by Frederick Hawkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annals of the French Stage, Vol. 1 of 2: From Its Origin to the Death of Racine; 789-1667 To go over new ground. Notwithstanding the light recently thrown in France upon the development of her old literature, especially that of the Middle Ages, no English writer has thought fit to illustrate, at least upon anything like a comprehensive scale, the rise and progress of the theatre in Paris. In the present work an attempt is made to partly redeem that deficiency, and a want of all the leisure needed for the task has not prevented the author from carefully verifying his statements, from inquiring into opinions of question able soundness, and from studying for himself the important plays which he has ventured to criticize. 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 One Act Plays Classic Reprint written by Helen Louise Cohen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Act Plays The one-act play is a new form of the drama and more emphatically a new form of literature. Its possibilities began to attract the attention of European and American writers in the last decade of the nineteenth century, those years when so many dramatic traditions lapsed and so many precedents were established. It is significant that the Oldest play in the present collection is Maeterlinck's The Intruder, published in 1890. The history of this new form is of necessity brief. Before its vogue became general, one-act plays were being presented 'in vaudeville houses in this country and were being used as curtain raisers in London theatres for the purpose of marking time until the late-dining audiences should arrive. With the exception of the famous Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, where the entertainment for an evening might consist of sev eral one-act plays, all of the hair-raising, blood-curdling variety, programs composed entirely of one-act plays were rare. Sir James Matthew Barrie is usually credited with being the first in England to write one-act plays intended to be grouped in a single production. A program of this character has been un common in the commercial theatre in America, but three of Barrie's one-act plays, constituting a single program, have met with enthusiastic response from American audiences. There are two new developments in the history of the theatre that have encouraged and promoted the writing of one act plays: the one is the Repertory Theatre abroad and the other is the Little Theatre movement on both sides of the At lantic. The repertory of the Irish Players, for example, is composed largely of one-act plays, and American Little Theatres are given over almost exclusively to the one-act play. 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 Works Of Moliere Vol 6 written by Molière Molière and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works Of Moliere, Vol. 6: French And English N fe contenta d'admirer egale ment l'art avec lequel Moliere avort mis en oeuvre ce qu'il avoir emprunte de Plante, 8: la ju efie de fon gout dans les changemens. 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 the Drama the Girls Classic Reprint written by George Jean Nathan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls As I see it, It Pays to Advertise is perhaps the most typically American play of the last ten years. The Russian Stanislavski, a name that American critics who have never been nearer Russia than a dish of caviar are happy to conjure with, strikes me as a very proficient but considerably overestimated producing artist. He is a child of Gordon Craig out of Max Reinhardt. I see Grace George as a first-rate comedienne who has choked herself into a premature discard through a vanity that has brought her to surround herself with second-rate ancients in third-rate ingénue shows. I always enjoy the Win ter Garden, however poor the spectacle: if I could smoke when I watched him, I might even enjoy the performances of Lou Tellegen. I respect bjom son, but his plays escape my personal fervours. This is true also of d'annunzio. When in Paris. 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 a tre de la Ville de Paris Classic Reprint written by Michel de la Rochemaillet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Théâtre de la Ville de Paris Un exemple eclaircira la chose rien de brutal comme un fait souvent campeurs comme les pro spec tus, les catalogues menagent parfois de ces sur prises desagreables aux chercheurs et exercent leur patience. 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.
