| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations |
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Florida Bernard Shaw series |
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Florida Bernard Shaw series
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Foreword / by R.F. Dietrich -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- [pt.] 1. Bernard Shaw, director -- [ch.] 1. Theater background and experience -- [ch.] 2. The director : goals and groundwork -- [ch.] 3. General directing practices -- [ch.] 4. The actor -- [ch.] 5. Stage effects and stage effectiveness -- [ch.] 6. The technical elements of production -- [ch.] 7. The business of theater -- [pt.] 2. The director as interpreter : Shaw's Pygmalion -- [pt.] 3. The theater in Bernard Shaw's drama -- Widowers' houses -- The Philanderer -- Arms and the man -- The man of destiny -- You never can tell -- The Devil's disciple -- Cæsar and Cleopatra -- John Bull's other island -- Passion, poison, and petrification -- Major Barbara -- The doctor's dilemma -- The inauguration speech : an interlude -- Misalliance -- The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet -- The dark lady of the sonnets -- Fanny's first play -- Androcles and the lion -- Pygmalion -- Cæsar and Cleopatra : The Ra prologue -- The music-cure -- The Inca of Perusalem -- Back to Methuselah -- Saint Joan -- Too true to be good -- The simpleton of the unexpected isles -- Shakes versus Shav -- Shaw's use of the theater as dramatic device |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Stage history
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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Dramatic production
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| SUBJECT |
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 fast |
| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Theater
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Toneel.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813022398 |
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9780813022390 |
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