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Author: Harley Granville-Barker Publisher: ISBN: 9781330551219 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 296
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Excerpt from The Exemplary Theatre The history of a book's writing has an interest of its author, when (the worst over) he is able to recall it, that he can hardly expect its readers to share. But in the origin and development of the ideas which I have tried to express in "The Exemplary Theatre" I do seem to find a significance sufficiently impersonal for their recording, perhaps, to be pardonable. The history begins, then, about twenty years ago at a meeting held in some drawing-room in the further West End of London. My memory is not more precise; nor does it distinguish who was present. But the meeting's object the object at least that emerged - was to consider what steps could be taken towards the foundation of a national theatre, and its result the appointment of a committee to draw up a scheme. From this point my memory grows clearer. The committee consisted of Gilbert Murray, A. C. Bradley, Spenser Wilkinson, William Archer, Hamilton Fyfe, and - longo intervallo - my humble self. It met several times at Spenser Wilkinson's house and discussed at some length and, as was to be expected, with great learning the principles that should govern the establishment and conduct of national theatres in general. Spenser Wilkinson, I remember, was most apt to turn for a solution of our difficulties to the practice of the ancient Greeks. I trust I sat silent. I was impatient - the scheme seemed likely to be long in coming to birth. I am sure I looked forward to a national theatre in being within the next year or so. I have since thought, as the sequel will show, that our theorizing need not have been wasted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Harley Granville-Barker Publisher: ISBN: 9781330551219 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 296
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Excerpt from The Exemplary Theatre The history of a book's writing has an interest of its author, when (the worst over) he is able to recall it, that he can hardly expect its readers to share. But in the origin and development of the ideas which I have tried to express in "The Exemplary Theatre" I do seem to find a significance sufficiently impersonal for their recording, perhaps, to be pardonable. The history begins, then, about twenty years ago at a meeting held in some drawing-room in the further West End of London. My memory is not more precise; nor does it distinguish who was present. But the meeting's object the object at least that emerged - was to consider what steps could be taken towards the foundation of a national theatre, and its result the appointment of a committee to draw up a scheme. From this point my memory grows clearer. The committee consisted of Gilbert Murray, A. C. Bradley, Spenser Wilkinson, William Archer, Hamilton Fyfe, and - longo intervallo - my humble self. It met several times at Spenser Wilkinson's house and discussed at some length and, as was to be expected, with great learning the principles that should govern the establishment and conduct of national theatres in general. Spenser Wilkinson, I remember, was most apt to turn for a solution of our difficulties to the practice of the ancient Greeks. I trust I sat silent. I was impatient - the scheme seemed likely to be long in coming to birth. I am sure I looked forward to a national theatre in being within the next year or so. I have since thought, as the sequel will show, that our theorizing need not have been wasted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Cyril Maude Publisher: ISBN: 9781330794678 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 290
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Excerpt from The Haymarket Theatre: Some Records Reminiscences We have given this book the sub-title of "Some Records and Reminiscences" for the very excellent reason that it exactly describes it. No attempt has been made to write a serious history, and we have only tried to deal with those periods of the theatre's life that are, in our opinion, interesting or entertaining. If our sins of commission are many, our sins of omission are of far greater number, but in the latter case we have sinned with intention. Our debts to authors past and present, and to almost numberless friends, are far too heavy to be repaid by a mere prefatory recital of their names. We would simply beg the reader believe that without them we could never have put pen to paper, an undoubted fact which will go far to prove the gratitude we feel so strongly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Romain Rolland Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331668056 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 164
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Excerpt from The People's Theater M. Rolland was finally located, and we began a correspondence from which I shall use certain parts to illustrate this brief preface. In my original preface to the present volume I had referred to M. Rolland's having retired from public life and being temporarily crushed, but the first letter I received convinced me beyond a doubt that he was far from it. He would never consent to the publication of any translation of his works without first seeing that it rendered faith fully the spirit of the original. He did not care even to discuss terms, and he added, by way of proof of his commercial disinterestedness, that the proceeds of the Nobel Prize, of which he was the recipient not long ago, and which amounted to over he had spent in works of charity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henrik Ibsen Publisher: Ardent Media ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 468
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Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Clement Scott Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333167042 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 360
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Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 3: January to June, 1884 I am not sure that Mr. Pinero is at all indebted in any true sense to Mannen af bord och Qvinnan af Folket, the long and intensely moral romance by Marie Sophie Schwartz, on which Lords and Commons is founded. Had he freed himself more completely from its in uence, his play would have been better. It is one of those novels Of romantic intrigue and situation, some what in Spielhagen's earlier manner, which were so popular in Germany and Scandinavia about the middle Of this century. The characters are always telling each other their interminable histories with a running comment of moral re ection. Much labour is devoted to preventing the intrigue from unravelling too fast, and the central secret is kept to the last with perverse ingenuity. Mr. Pinero has added little or nothing in the shape of plot, and has had to reject much. The main improbability of the problem, and the chief errors in its working out, he has borrowed from his original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: H. M. Walbrook Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267441464 Category : Languages : en Pages : 250
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Excerpt from Nights at the Play It is, therefore, as I have said, in a hopeful moment that this volume appears. It contains a record of some of the principal London theatrical productions of the period 1907 - 10, which witnessed the beginning, and alas also the end, of Miss Lena Ashwell's management of the K ingsway Theatre and of Mr. Charles F rahman's repertory enterprise at the Duke of 1 ork's the opening of Mr. Herbert Trench's management of the Hay market and visits to London from such players as Miss 7ulia Marlowe and Mr. E. H. Sothern, Signora Aguglia and Cav. Giovanni Grasso, Herr Albert Heine, and the Abbey Theatre Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Clive Barker Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408125196 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 257
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A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.
Author: Charles Edwin Hewes Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780259478713 Category : Languages : en Pages : 576
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Excerpt from The Theatre Terrible: A Creation, Presenting Various Aspects of the Greater Drama The worship of Cleverness springs from that artificial life of unsatisfied wealth and neglected time, known as Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert E. Sherwood Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332726786 Category : Languages : en Pages : 214
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Excerpt from There Shall Be No Night After the first performance of There Shall Be NO Night in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 29, 19450, a young man, a stranger, came up to me and said, You certainly have changed your point of view since 'idiot's Delight.' There was a distinct note of accusation in his voice. This was the first of many similar and many less tem perate accusations which this play has provoked. Having identified myself time and again in the past as a pacifist, I had now become a War monger. It is a strange fact that many people who can bear with equanimity all sorts of assaults upon their moral character or their personal habits are goaded' to indignant counter - attack when they are charged with inconsistency. I don't mind being called a black-hearted villain, an enemy of society. In fact, I might even be flattered by such dis tinction. But - by God - I'll fight any man who dares to imply that I have been untrue to myself. Therefore, I wish to preface this play with a review Of the development of my own point of view, as it has been expressed in other plays. I want to say that There Shall Be NO Night is not a denial of Idiot's Delight: it is a sequel. I realize that there is an appreciable difference be' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Author: Cyril Maude
Author: Romain Rolland
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Author: Clement Scott
Author: H. M. Walbrook
Author: Cicely Mary Barker
Author: Clive Barker
Author: Charles Edwin Hewes
Author: Robert E. Sherwood