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: Franklin Fyles Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484448116 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 306
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Excerpt from The Theatre and Its People One of the exercises in a dramatic school is to speak pieces as all of us did in our school-days. But the'selections are not the well-remembered ones of our juvenile declamation. They are likelier to be passages from plays so unfamiliar that the pupil cannot be guided by precedent, but must form his own conception of the ideas and how to convey them in Speech and action. The tendency is toward naturalism, and away from formal declamation. Ora tory, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is depreciated. Fluency and variety of utterance are aimed at. 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: Archibald Henderson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266758181 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 116
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Excerpt from Pioneering a People's Theatre: Edited With a Foreword We shall miss him, his pipe, his dog and his jaunty step down the village streets, his constant enthusiasm as fresh as the first morning of his great hopes, now and forever a part of the life, service and traditions of the U ni versity of North Carolina. We bow our heads in sorrow and appreciation for the great loss which has come to his wife and sons, and to the University and the Nation. We lift our hearts in exceeding joy for the noble life - work of Frederick Henry Koch immortal in the plays of the people to be carried on in his name at the University of the people in the village he loved. To the reverent care of all who love him we now entrust his blessed com memoration in the halls, walks and forests of Chapel Hill. He lives on in the creative spirit of youth, walking their ways, writing their plays and keeping lighted his fires from generation unto generation. 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: Douglas Goldring Publisher: ISBN: 9781331119562 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 104
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Excerpt from The Fight for Freedom: A Play in Four Acts When the International People's Theatre is founded, one of the first plays it ought to put on, if it means to do educational as well as artistic work, is Douglas Goldring's beautiful drama, "The Fight for Freedom." Not that this drama is a panegyric of Socialism. On the contrary, it might almost be said to be a criticism of the Socialist party. Its merit, its strength, resides in its bringing out the pathetic tragedy of the harsh truth underlying the obscure drama that divides humanity in two. "The Fight for Freedom" puts before us the idea that at the present time dominates and influences all other ideas - the idea of revolution. It is set in its proper place here, taken at its source, at the very heart of man. Thence it tumbles like an impetuous torrent and dashes into a river. For it is not enough, no, it is not enough to aspire towards the happiness of the people, towards the deep, radical transformation of the old regime which oppresses them. 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: ISBN: 9781436553452 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: J. R. Abarbanell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781331660491 Category : Languages : en Pages : 374
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Excerpt from The Heart of the People: A Picture of Life as It Is to-Day The rest of the great throng Of spectators rustled into silence, as they ordinarily do When the cur tain rises at a theater, while the reporters at the press-table sharpened their pencils and got ready to make history of the occurrence. 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: Theodore Bonnet Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483643536 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 152
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Excerpt from A Friend of the People: A Play in Four Acts To be sure, when a play fails it is not always easy to say why it failed. There is really no formula of success in play - writing. There is an instance of a play that bored a veteran London critic, which, according to his own confession, was just the sort of play that he had been always reviling people for not writing, managers for not producing, critics for not praising. He owned that it was a sincere pre sentment of actual life; that the characters were alive, well drawn and had the value of types; that it was full of food for reflection and innocent of theatrical effects. Yet it made him long to be amused and excited, and he couldn't tell why it failed to interest him with all its facts and ideas. The explanation probably is that the good qualities of the play were wholly negative. The author had mastered the decalogue of prohibitions, but neglected the organic form of emotion which stimulates feel ing as well as thought. Obviously positive merit is better than the negative kind, but yet few of us have the genius that would justify us in defying the seven devils of the theatre. Hence the importance of considering objections from high sources, objec tions not to be found in textbooks on technique or made obvious by object lessons on the stage itself, and therefore unknown to the average novice of the drama. 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: Arthur Ruhl Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484411622 Category : Languages : en Pages : 388
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Excerpt from Second Nights: People and Ideas of the Theatre to-Day The second-nighter breathes a duller ether. Gone is the mystery and contagious warmth, the first night's febrile unrest. The show man has opened his bag of tricks; the pack are off, baying after new game. There is no one in the audience. The man in front does not turn round to tell you how the author sat up all the night before rewriting his third act - he is mere paper, or the brother of the property man's wife, or the sad-eyed sub editor of a technical magazine, or an out-of town buyer drifted in to The Lady from the Sea, thinking it a musical comedy. The play is better given than on the first night, but it stands on its own feet, is shorn of extraneous glamour. And the second-nighter himself, though he turn up as regular as the clock - and magazine critics are likely to receive tickets for second nights - is scarcely detached from the common herd. He is part of the public. The news and the spot light have swung on ere he arrives. 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: Sheldon Cheney Publisher: ISBN: 9781330504758 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 284
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Excerpt from The Open-Air Theatre My object in writing this volume has been three-fold: first, to offer, for that increasingly large public which is interested in every significant development of the drama, a comprehensive view of the open-air theatre movement with relation to both the historical background and the remarkable current revival; second, to provide the architect with a first-aid compendium of information about old and modern open-air theatres, bringing together material which, if it has existed at all in print, has been scattered through a hundred books and magazine articles; and third, to give those concerned with open-air production a birdseye view of the drama of the open in all ages and all lands, and by comparison, to help them to an understanding of the peculiar characteristics and particular problems of production out-of-doors. The scope of the volume is limited. No attempt is made to treat of theatres of the half-enclosed type, which are in effect the ordinary architectural theatre with the auditorium roof lifted. 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
Author: Franklin Fyles
Author: Archibald Henderson
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Author: Douglas Goldring
Author: Romain Rolland
Author: J. R. Abarbanell
Author: Theodore Bonnet
Author: Arthur Ruhl
Author: Sheldon Cheney