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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE: To the first impression, 1911; PREFACE; TO THE READER: A word in 1955; INTRODUCTION; GOD SAVE THE KING; 1 THE ARTISTS OF THE THEATRE OF THE FUTURE; 2 THE ACTOR AND THE ÜBER-MARIONETTE; 3 SOME EVIL TENDENCIES OF THE MODERN THEATRE; 4 PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS PICTURES AND PAINTERS IN THE THEATRE; 5 THE THEATRE IN RUSSIA, GERMANY AND ENGLAND: Two letters to John Semar; 6 THE ART OF THE THEATRE THE FIRST DIALOGUE: An expert and a playgoer are conversing |
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7 THE ART OF THE THEATRE THE SECOND DIALOGUE: A playgoer and a stage-director speak8 ON THE GHOSTS IN THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE; 9 SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS; 10 REALISM AND THE ACTOR; 11 OPEN-AIR THEATRES; 12 SYMBOLISM; 13 THE EXQUISITE AND THE PRECIOUS; FURTHER READING; INDEX |
| Summary |
"We cannot create anything worth seeing or hearing if, like a tame cat, we must first ask others what they think is the best thing to do, and the safest." Edward Gordon Craig, 1924. . On the Art of the Theatre was first published in 1911, and remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of Twentieth Century Theatre?s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and prescient contribution that retains its relevance almos |
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Drama.
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Theater.
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Performing arts.
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Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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theater (discipline)
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drama (literary genre)
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performing arts (discipline)
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Drama
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Performing arts
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Theater
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Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Chamberlain, Franc
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| ISBN |
9780203889749 |
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0203889746 |
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1281787329 |
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9781281787323 |
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