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The idea of a theater : a study of ten plays : the art of drama in changing perspective / / Francis Fergusson



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Autore: Fergusson Francis Visualizza persona
Titolo: The idea of a theater : a study of ten plays : the art of drama in changing perspective / / Francis Fergusson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1949
©1949
Edizione: First Princeton paperback edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Disciplina: 808.2
Soggetto topico: Drama - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: Acting
Anagoge
Anecdote
Aristotelianism
Awareness
Before the Revolution
Brothel
Caricature
City Of
Classicism
Cyclorama (theater)
Dithyramb
Dolce Stil Novo
Drama
Dramatization
Dramaturgy
Drawing room
Episode
Escapism
Farce
Fine art
Fortinbras
Genre
Gilbert Murray
Gilbert and Sullivan
Good and evil
Hamlet's Father
Hamlet
Harold Clurman
Heartbreak House
High Spirits (musical)
Hubris
Illustration
Imagery
Improvisation
In Society
In This World
In the Life
Infatuation
Irony
Jacques Copeau
Jean Cocteau
Jeux
Kilroy was here
Laertes (Hamlet)
Life Itself
Literature
Louis Jouvet
Luigi Pirandello
Macduff (Macbeth)
Major Barbara
Melodrama
Metaphysical poets
Mimesis
Modernity
Molière
Murder in the Cathedral
Narrative thread
Narrative
Of Human Action
Omnipotence
Oscar Wilde
Parody
Plautus
Play (theatre)
Playwright
Poetic realism
Poetry
Polonius
Primitivism
Purgatorio
Realism (arts)
Reductio ad absurdum
Restoration comedy
Revenge play
Rhetorical device
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Scaramouche
Sensibility
Shakespearean tragedy
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sophistication
Sophocles
Sound effect
Struggle (TV series)
Suspension of disbelief
Terence
The Comic
The Infernal Machine (play)
The Realist
The Spirit of the Age
The Various
The Very Idea
Theatre
Theatricality
Tragedy
Valet
Ventriloquism
William Shakespeare
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART 1. THE IDEA OF A THEATER -- INTRODUCTION. THE IDEA OF A THEATER -- CHAPTER I. OEDIPUS REX: THE TRAGIC RHYTHM OF ACTION -- CHAPTER II. BERENICE: THE ACTION AND THEATER OF REASON -- CHAPTER III. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: THE ACTION AND THEATER OF PASSION -- CHAPTER IV. HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: THE ANALOGY OF ACTION -- PART II. THE PARTIAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MODERN THEATER -- INTRODUCTION. THE PARTIAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MODERN THEATER -- CHAPTER V. GHOSTS AND THE CHERRY ORCHARD: THE THEATER OF MODERN REALISM -- CHAPTER VI. THE THEATRICALITY OF SHAW AND PIRANDELLO -- CHAPTER VII. POETRY OF THE THEATER AND THE POET IN THE THEATER -- P A R T III. CERTAIN TECHNICAL CONCEPTS USED IN THIS STUDY -- APPENDIX. ON CERTAIN TECHNICAL CONCEPTS USED IN THIS STUDY -- Back matter
Sommario/riassunto: An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays-Oedipus Rex, Bérénice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral-the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and how in this respect the art of drama is always the same, varying only with the philosophical and aesthetic concepts of each age. The Idea of a Theater will delight both readers with a special interest in drama and those who read drama as a source of insight into man's nature and man's changing ideas of himself. Originally published in 1949.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Titolo autorizzato: The idea of a theater  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-06143-2
0-691-64910-3
1-4008-7513-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797877203321
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