The live theatre; an introduction to the history and practice of the stage.
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| Author / Creator: | Hunt, Hugh, 1911-1993. |
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| Imprint: | London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962. |
| Description: | 199 pages illustrations 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3117790 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the nature of entertainment
- The ingredients of theatre
- The ritual theatre: the theatre of Athens
- Ritual in performance: some problems of producing Greek plays
- The secular theatre: new comedy and the Roman theatre
- The pageant theatre: liturgical plays and the religious cycles
- A plea for pageantry: some problems of producing medieval mystery plays
- The professional theatre: the strolling players and the public theatres
- Poetic action: Shakespeare's stage-craft and contemporary production
- The theatre of illusion: the indoor playhouses and the Restoration theatre
- Artificial acting: the performance of Restoration comedy
- The growth of illusion: theatre during the eighteenth century
- The materialist theatre: melodrama and spectacle
- The theatre of actuality: the birth of realism
- The confusion of styles: the theatre of the early twentieth century
- The new continental and American theatre
- Revolution in the theatre: British theatre today
- Creative interpretation: the search for a philosophy
- The practice of theatre.