Author: Mary Frances SpencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
History and Execution of the Costumes of George Henry Boker's Francesca Da Rimini
Author: Mary Frances SpencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Design and Execution of the Lighting for George Henry Boker's Francesca Da Rimini
Author: Joe Russell ZimmermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stage lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Men of the Time
Author: Italian Hours
Author: Henry JamesThe Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Shakespeare on Theatre
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1623160332
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.
The Critic
Author: Imaginary Interviews
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
With Walt Whitman in Camden
Author: Horace TraubelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The History of Southern Drama
Author: Charles S. WatsonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318889X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.