| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 281 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Sheldon Cheney: A Missionary of Modernism; Foreword to Volume I; Editorial -- Editorial -- What We Stand For -- On Stylization -- Those Germans! -- Provincialism -- Why We Are Moving -- Foreword to Volume II -- Our Ideals and Our Critics -- Chapter Two: Conditions in American Theatre: Righteous Indignation; New York's Best Season -- About the Portmanteau Theatre -- Fooling with Repertory -- The Art Theatre and Repertory |
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At Last-A National TheatreThe Road-Town Problem -- Closing of the Chicago Little Theatre -- Comment on Current Plays -- Repertory Again -- The Washington Square Players -- A Futile War -- The New York Season -- The Theatre and War Memorials -- Curtain! -- Letter -- Lonely Places -- Chapter Three: International Influences: Good News from Abroad; New Books: The Mirror of Gesture -- Jacques Copeau -- The Moscow Art Theatre: A Model -- Wartime Theatres of England and France: Paris and the Mask of Picasso -- New Books: Noh: or Accomplishment |
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""Newest Tendencies in the Paris Theatre""""The Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in America""; ""Sketches of Oriental Theatres, I""; ""Gordon Craig""; ""Sketches of Oriental Theatres, II""; ""Eurhythmies for the Theatre""; ""Theory and Practice in Russian Theatres""; ""Copeau-1921,""; Chapter Four: New Stagecraft: The Scenic Reformation; ""Acting and the New Stagecraft""; ""Exhibitions of Stage Art; ""Sam Hume's Adaptable Settings""; ""The Painter and the Stage""; ""A Note About Lee Simonson""; ""The Newest Art""; Bourgeois Galleries Exhibition of American Stage Design: ""Prefatory Note"" |
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The New Path of the TheatreThe Necessary Illusion -- The Mission of the Stage Setting -- Artificiality and Reality in the Future Theatre -- If I Must -- Fashions in the Theatre -- The Future of Stage Art -- Scene and Action -- The New Stage Designing -- The Theatre of the Future -- The Stage -- Fantasy? -- Color and Light -- Hermann Rosse's Stage Designs -- The Centre of the Stage: Macbeth -- Chapter Five: American Plays and Playwrights: Seeking New Prophets; From The New Published Plays and Theatre Arts Bookshelf' Columns, 1916-1921 |
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Realistic Drama and the Experimental TheatreAmerican Drama Mid-Channel -- Eugene O' Neill -- The New Season -- Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Enriches understanding this critical period in American history and illuminates the major issues of 20th-century theatre and drama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.
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| SUBJECT |
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980. fast (OCoLC)fst00012673 |
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Theatre arts magazine
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| Subject |
Theater.
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Performing arts.
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theater (discipline)
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Performing arts.
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Theater.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.
Works. Selections. 2010
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| LC no. |
2021679346 |
| ISBN |
9780810872677 |
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0810872676 |
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1283616289 |
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9781283616287 |
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9786613928733 |
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6613928739 |
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