Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
America's Lost Plays: An arrant knave and other plays, by S. Mackaye
Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Pictorial Illusionism
Author: J. A. Sokalski
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was a major North American theatre artist - a director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer - best known for advancing a unified vision of pictorial illusionism, the central aesthetic of late nineteenth-century drama, by transforming grand theatres into jewel-boxes for gilded society. Pictorial Illusionism is the first full-length critical study of MacKaye's life's work.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was a major North American theatre artist - a director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer - best known for advancing a unified vision of pictorial illusionism, the central aesthetic of late nineteenth-century drama, by transforming grand theatres into jewel-boxes for gilded society. Pictorial Illusionism is the first full-length critical study of MacKaye's life's work.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521651790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521651790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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America
Author: Slason Thompson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections: Theatre Collection: books on the theatre. 9 v
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
Book Description
Adult Catalog: Subjects
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description