Author: George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Rehearsal
Author: George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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How a Play is Produced - Illustrated by Joseph Čapek
Author: Karel Čapek
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473394201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to producing a play, and is intended for dramatists, dramatic critics, and the general public. It explores what transformations a play must go through before it may flourish, and contains a wealth of interesting and invaluable information on the subject. The chapters of this book include: 'The First Beginnings', 'Casting the Play', 'The Production', 'Reading the Play', 'In the Rehearsal Room', 'Further Rehearsals', 'The Play Matures', 'The Dress Rehearsal – I', 'The Dress Rehearsal – II', 'The Mise en Scéne', 'The First Night', 'After the First Night', etcetera. Karel Capek (1890 - 1938) was a famous Czech writer of the early twentieth-century. He worked as a playwright, publisher, literary reviewer, and art critic, but is most remembered for his science fiction writing. We are republishing this antiquarian text in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473394201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to producing a play, and is intended for dramatists, dramatic critics, and the general public. It explores what transformations a play must go through before it may flourish, and contains a wealth of interesting and invaluable information on the subject. The chapters of this book include: 'The First Beginnings', 'Casting the Play', 'The Production', 'Reading the Play', 'In the Rehearsal Room', 'Further Rehearsals', 'The Play Matures', 'The Dress Rehearsal – I', 'The Dress Rehearsal – II', 'The Mise en Scéne', 'The First Night', 'After the First Night', etcetera. Karel Capek (1890 - 1938) was a famous Czech writer of the early twentieth-century. He worked as a playwright, publisher, literary reviewer, and art critic, but is most remembered for his science fiction writing. We are republishing this antiquarian text in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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The Illustrated American
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Art of Play Production
Author: John Dolman
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Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Art as Human Practice
Author: Georg W. Bertram
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350063169
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350063169
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.
Great Pianists on Piano Playing
Author: James Francis Cooke
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book presents the thoughts, musical insights, and experiences of the world's greatest pianists. It consists of 28 interviews of the greatest musicians of all times, like Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski. In the interviews, these artists speak about piano technique, musical development, and what is required to become a virtuoso pianist.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book presents the thoughts, musical insights, and experiences of the world's greatest pianists. It consists of 28 interviews of the greatest musicians of all times, like Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski. In the interviews, these artists speak about piano technique, musical development, and what is required to become a virtuoso pianist.
Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 190949674X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9260
Book Description
The prolific novelist Arnold Bennett created a succession of stories that detailed life in the Staffordshire Potteries, which were to immortalize his beloved “Five Towns" and establish his name as one of the leading realist authors of early Twentieth Century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents the most complete edition of Bennett’s fictional works possible in the United States, with numerous illustrations, many rare novels, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bennett's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 30 novels published before 1926, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes the rare first novel THE MAN FROM THE NORTH * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Four short story collections, including rare collections like THE LOOT OF CITIES, available nowhere else * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes a generous range of Bennett's plays and non-fiction - spend hours exploring the author’s diverse oeuvre * Even includes the engaging HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR, available in no other digital edition * Special criticism section, with seminal essays by authors such as Henry James, Virginia Woolf and George Orwell, evaluating Bennett’s contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with a rare play, a novel (Riceyman Steps), a shorty collection and four more non-fiction works Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 novels and short story collections are not included. The Novels A Man from the North (1898) The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902) Anna of the Five Towns (1902) The Gates of Wrath (1903) Leonora (1903) A Great Man (1904) Teresa of Watling Street (1904) Sacred and Profane Love (1905) Hugo (1906) Whom God Hath Joined (1906) The Sinews of War (1906) The Ghost (1907) The City of Pleasure (1907) The Statue (1908) Buried Alive (1908) The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) The Glimpse (1909) Helen with the High Hand (1910) Clayhanger (1910) The Card (1911) Hilda Lessways (1911) The Regent (1913) The Price of Love (1914) These Twain (1916) The Lion’s Share (1916) The Pretty Lady (1918) The Roll-Call (1918) Mr Prohack (1922) Lilian (1922) Riceyman Steps (1923) The Short Story Collections Tales of the Five Towns (1905) The Loot of Cities and Other Stories (1905) The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories (1912) Elsie and the Child, and Other Stories (1924) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Polite Farces for the Drawing-Room (1899) The Honeymoon (1911) The Great Adventure (1913) The Title (1918) Judith (1922) The Non Fiction Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide (1898) How to Become an Author: A Practical Guide (1903) The Human Machine (1909) Literary Taste: How to Form It (1909) How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1910) The Feast of St. Friend (1911) Those United States (1912) The Arnold Bennett Calendar (1912) The Plain Man and His Wife (1913) From the Log of the Velsa (1914) Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People (1914) The Author’s Craft (1914) Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front (1915) Introduction to ‘In the Royal Naval Air Service’ (1916) by Harold Rosher Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-11 (1917) Things that Interested Me: First Series (1921) Things Which Interested Me: Second Series (1923) The Criticism The New Novel (1914) by Henry James The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett (1923) by G. K. Chesterton Character in Fiction (1924) by Virginia Woolf Letter to Arnold Bennett (1924) by Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 190949674X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9260
Book Description
The prolific novelist Arnold Bennett created a succession of stories that detailed life in the Staffordshire Potteries, which were to immortalize his beloved “Five Towns" and establish his name as one of the leading realist authors of early Twentieth Century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents the most complete edition of Bennett’s fictional works possible in the United States, with numerous illustrations, many rare novels, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bennett's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 30 novels published before 1926, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes the rare first novel THE MAN FROM THE NORTH * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Four short story collections, including rare collections like THE LOOT OF CITIES, available nowhere else * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes a generous range of Bennett's plays and non-fiction - spend hours exploring the author’s diverse oeuvre * Even includes the engaging HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR, available in no other digital edition * Special criticism section, with seminal essays by authors such as Henry James, Virginia Woolf and George Orwell, evaluating Bennett’s contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with a rare play, a novel (Riceyman Steps), a shorty collection and four more non-fiction works Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 novels and short story collections are not included. The Novels A Man from the North (1898) The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902) Anna of the Five Towns (1902) The Gates of Wrath (1903) Leonora (1903) A Great Man (1904) Teresa of Watling Street (1904) Sacred and Profane Love (1905) Hugo (1906) Whom God Hath Joined (1906) The Sinews of War (1906) The Ghost (1907) The City of Pleasure (1907) The Statue (1908) Buried Alive (1908) The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) The Glimpse (1909) Helen with the High Hand (1910) Clayhanger (1910) The Card (1911) Hilda Lessways (1911) The Regent (1913) The Price of Love (1914) These Twain (1916) The Lion’s Share (1916) The Pretty Lady (1918) The Roll-Call (1918) Mr Prohack (1922) Lilian (1922) Riceyman Steps (1923) The Short Story Collections Tales of the Five Towns (1905) The Loot of Cities and Other Stories (1905) The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories (1912) Elsie and the Child, and Other Stories (1924) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Polite Farces for the Drawing-Room (1899) The Honeymoon (1911) The Great Adventure (1913) The Title (1918) Judith (1922) The Non Fiction Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide (1898) How to Become an Author: A Practical Guide (1903) The Human Machine (1909) Literary Taste: How to Form It (1909) How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1910) The Feast of St. Friend (1911) Those United States (1912) The Arnold Bennett Calendar (1912) The Plain Man and His Wife (1913) From the Log of the Velsa (1914) Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People (1914) The Author’s Craft (1914) Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front (1915) Introduction to ‘In the Royal Naval Air Service’ (1916) by Harold Rosher Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-11 (1917) Things that Interested Me: First Series (1921) Things Which Interested Me: Second Series (1923) The Criticism The New Novel (1914) by Henry James The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett (1923) by G. K. Chesterton Character in Fiction (1924) by Virginia Woolf Letter to Arnold Bennett (1924) by Joseph Conrad
A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books, in the Ancient and Modern Languages, and Various Classes of Literature
Author: Longman (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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