Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century: The theatre of today
Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century: The theatre of yesterday
Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century
Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The theatre of today
Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The theatre of yesterday
Author: Lewis Clinton StrangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Plays by William Hooker Gillette
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240895
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. Gillette also adapted foreign plays for the American stage and wrote strong melodramas and spy stories in which he frequently appeared himself. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899). Gillette's sure grasp of the keys to theatrical success, together with his technical innovations, makes him an interesting and important theatre figure. In his time, as playwright and player, he achieved a new combination of melodramatic suspense with a cool, understated acting style. These three plays represent the range of his dramatic talent.
Brooklyn Takes the Stage
Author: Samuel L. LeiterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476693595
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.
Representative American Plays from 1880 to the Present Day
Author: Arthur Hobson QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre
Author: Kevin Lane DearingerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920
Author: Benjamin McArthurPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877457107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also the only study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.
