The theatre : three thousand years of drama, acting and stagecraft, with 204 illustrations /
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| Author / Creator: | Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. |
| Description: | ix, 558 pages: frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2141431 |
Table of Contents:
- Dionysus
- The theatre, human and divine
- Where the theatre came from, and when
- Tragedy: the noble Greeks
- Comedy: Greece and Rome
- Sensuous and intellectual theatres: the Orient
- The theatre in the church
- The Mediaeval spirit and the stage
- The glorious Renaissance - with reservations
- A pretty interlude - pastoral and operatic
- The vulgar popular comedy
- The chivalrous theatre of Spain
- Shakespeare
- The Puritans and the chapel of Satan
- Kings, courtesans, and dramatists of France
- Opera, picturing, and acting
- "Sturm und Drang"
- The theatre and the birth of democracy
- Romanticism: the theatre as escape
- Well-made plays and pretty scenery: Victorianism
- Realism: photography and journalism on the stage
- The theatre and its swell relations: the other arts
- The theatre of the early twentieth century
- The rise of production as an art
- Machine-age developments
- Epilogue: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.