Art Of The Drama Classic Reprint

Author : Fred B. Millett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0331827026

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Art of the Drama (Classic Reprint) by Fred B. Millett Pdf

Excerpt from Art of the Drama This book is not a history of the drama. Nor is it a manual for the multitudes who aspire to write plays and sell them. It is a tool for the use of those who wish to deepen their understanding and enhance their enjoyment of plays witnessed in the theater or read in the study. As a textbook, it may prove useful in the study of the history of the drama or of the drama as a literary type, or in such a course as the Introduction to the Study of Drama as given at the University of Chicago. The book is divided into three parts, each of which emphasizes a particular aspect of the drama. Part I is mainly devoted to the historical aspect of the drama, the spirit of the age, the nature of the theater and audience in each of the major periods in dramatic his tory. It also contains a general discussion of the major forms or types of drama - tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and farce - and a more detailed consideration of the types of drama and comedy characteristic of each period. Part II considers the major modes of drama - classicism, romanticism, realism, sentimentalism, symbol ism, and expressionism. Part III concerns the major problems of dramatic technique and the characteristic solutions of those prob lems in the various types and modes and periods of drama. There is no question that it would have been more logical to con sider first the technical, second the aesthetic, and third the historical approach to the study of drama, and students of a logical turn of mind will have no difficulty in using the text in that order. But we have come to feel that it will, in general, be preferable for the student to master the facts in Part I before he ventures upon the more theoretical considerations of Parts II and III. 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 : Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1330696336

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Art, Literature, and the Drama (Classic Reprint) by Margaret Fuller Ossoli Pdf

Excerpt from Art, Literature, and the Drama The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, lately published, have inspired many readers with a profound regret that they had not, during her life, made or improved the acquaintance of one whom impartial judgment must pronounce the most capable and noteworthy American woman the world has yet known. Criticism has not spared the writers of that Memoir; yet no critic, so far as I am aware, has hinted a doubt that it portrays, truly and vividly, its heroine, though she had previously been more widely misapprehended - perhaps I should say uncomprehended - than any of her cotemporaries. Especially is that portion of the Memoirs contributed by Ralph Waldo Emerson entitled to the praise of being the frankest, fairest, most effective biography of our day, exhibiting its subject exactly as she lived and moved among us some few years ago, with her lofty virtues and her conspicuous faults, her conversation Which charmed and her manner that repelled; so that she Was at the same moment idolized and shunned, reverenced and ridiculed, by different sets of cultivated and considerate persons Whom she met in society; and neither without obvious reasons. 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 : Fred Benjamin Millett,Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833623280

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The Art of the Drama by Fred Benjamin Millett,Gerald Eades Bentley Pdf

Author : Huntly Carter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0267978715

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The New Spirit in Drama Art (Classic Reprint) by Huntly Carter Pdf

Excerpt from The New Spirit in Drama Art My own idea of the finest form of national drama which this country will see adopted comprises a rhythmic concep tion of play, player, decoration, and music. This drama will be represented in a rhythmic form of theatre. Everything henceforth is to be orchestrated to produce a single but infinitely varied total eflect. We need a stage which lends itself to the simple and single vision, that brings even the most unintelligent spectator into the action of the drama and holds him there, that promotes a direction of effort on the part of all concerned which will unify the results. It will be found that the present search in Europe is for artistic rather than for rhythmic results. The pioneers of the new movement are chiefly concerned with attaining artistic simplification, unity, and suggestion. They are interpreting these ideas in the endeavour to bring order and beauty into the theatre. So far they have not made the attempt to seize the great rhythm of life and to set the theatre and drama in motion with it. But this will come. Their exact interpre tation of the new ideas will be found in the chapter entitled Summary and Suggestions. 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 : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0484301381

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Art of the Play by Alan Seymour Downer Pdf

Excerpt from Art of the Play: An Anthology of Nine Plays As for The Tempest, Freud, Marx, and the cultural anthropologists would be as misleading as the realists or the gaudy showmen. I fancy, he said, that if you consider it as a Masque and not a play, and recog nize the difference of treatment and tone, it comes out all right. He was thinking of the problem of presenting the play in a theater, but the same problem faces any reader who wishes to approximate something like the full experience intended for him by the artist. The present volume is intended both for the student of literature as an introduction to the drama as an art, and for the student of theater as an introduction to the problems presented by the drama as an historical, lit crary, and esthetic phenomenon. It is assumed that understanding and producing drama are very nearly synonymous, and that the end and pur pose of seeing and reading a play is to experience the work as a whole. It is further assumed that this experience is available to the trained reader. 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 : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0282782117

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The Art of Terence (Classic Reprint) by Gilbert Norwood Pdf

Excerpt from The Art of Terence How much 13 to be said on the other side Comparison with the corresponding plays of Greek New Comedy is almost out of the question: even after the discoveries In Egypt the fragments are still too scanty. Meanwhile, various weighty arguments may be set forth which make it flatly impossible to regard Terence as a mere translator, indeed as less than an independent playwright in all the definitely dramatic aspects of his work. 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 : Fred B. Millett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330253140

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Art of the Drama by Fred B. Millett Pdf

Excerpt from Art of the Drama This book is not a history of the drama. Nor is it a manual for the multitudes who aspire to write plays and sell them. It is a tool for the use of those who wish to deepen their understanding and enhance their enjoyment of plays witnessed in the theater or read in the study. As a textbook, it may prove useful in the study of the history of the drama or of the drama as a literary type, or in such a course as the Introduction to the Study of Drama as given at the University of Chicago. The book is divided into three parts, each of which emphasizes a particular aspect of the drama. Part I is mainly devoted to the historical aspect of the drama, the spirit of the age, the nature of the theater and audience in each of the major periods in dramatic history. It also contains a general discussion of the major forms or types of drama - tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and farce - and a more detailed consideration of the types of drama and comedy characteristic of each period. Part II considers the major modes of drama - classicism, romanticism, realism, sentimentalism, symbolism, and expressionism. Part III concerns the major problems of dramatic technique and the characteristic solutions of those problems in the various types and modes and periods of drama. There is no question that it would have been more logical to consider first the technical, second the æsthetic, and third the historical approach to the study of drama, and students of a logical turn of mind will have no difficulty in using the text in that order. But we have come to feel that it will, in general, be preferable for the student to master the facts in Part I before he ventures upon the more theoretical considerations of Parts II and III. Both teacher and student will observe that this book makes no attempt to treat comprehensively any particular plays or the work of any particular playwrights, although many plays and many playwrights are drawn on for illustrative material. Rather is the book intended for use in connection with the reading and study of any series of plays in which the teacher or student may be interested. Inevitably, the plays, playwrights, and movements of each major period in the drama are discussed in each of the three parts of the book. But the very full index will make it easy for the reader to turn rapidly to our consideration, under various heads, of a particular play, playwright, or period. 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 : Edward Gordon Craig
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1528463552

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On the Art of the Theatre (Classic Reprint) by Edward Gordon Craig Pdf

Excerpt from On the Art of the Theatre Then there are other surprises, those engineers, those directors of journals, those managers of stores, those sea captains, men who startle one by suddenly putting in an appearance and expressing a sincere and hearty desire to join in the festivities. 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 : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0365347469

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A Study of the Drama (Classic Reprint) by Brander Matthews Pdf

Excerpt from A Study of the Drama As we seize the importance of these lines of ap proach, the historical and the practical, we see that a soundknowledge of the drama is not possible unless we seek to attain both a perspective of its develop ment and an insight into its technic. Just as the study of music is most stimulating when it includes an in quiry into the value of each of the several instruments, and also into their gradual combination into the most marvelous instrument of them all, the modern orches tra, so the study of the drama is most likely to be profit able when it leads us to consider the successive modi fications in the shape and size of the theaters wherein plays were acted; the varying circumstances of per formance to which the playwrights had to conform; the conventions of the art, some of them shifting from century to century or from country to country, and some of them immutable in the very nature of the drama. Especially stimulating is it for us to recognize the real unity of history, the continuity of the art of the drama, which enables us so often to explain the past by the present and the present by the past. 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 : Fred Benjamin Millett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:1089596729

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The Art of the Drama by Fred Benjamin Millett Pdf

Author : Fred B. Millett,Geralde Bentley
Publisher : Irvington Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1947-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0891970347

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Art of the Drama by Fred B. Millett,Geralde Bentley Pdf

Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0267422563

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The Artist by H. L. Mencken Pdf

Excerpt from The Artist: A Drama Without Words In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only, and no performance, representa tion, production, recitation, public reading or radio broadcasting may be given except by special arrange ment with samuel french, 25 West 4sth Street, New York, N. Y. 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 : Eustace Hale Ball
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0484518070

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The Art of the Photoplay (Classic Reprint) by Eustace Hale Ball Pdf

Excerpt from The Art of the Photoplay It is conservatively estimated that not less than ten thousand plays are produced yearly in the United States. 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 : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0365235318

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The Development of the Drama (Classic Reprint) by Brander Matthews Pdf

Excerpt from The Development of the Drama Of the ten lectures which make up the present volume, one or more have been delivered during the past two or three years at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at the Brooklyn Institute, at Columbia University, and before the National Institute of Arts and Letters. 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
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

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.