Research Catalog

Title

Theatre and drama in the making [by] John Gassner [and] Ralph G. Allen.

Author

Gassner, John, 1903-1967

Publication

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1964]

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Details

Additional Authors

Allen, Ralph G.

Description

2 v.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Drama
• Theater

Genre/Form

• Drama
• Théâtre.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

v. 1. From antiquity through the eighteenth century. The classical theatre. The origin of tragedy -- Theory and criticism of tragedy -- Playwrights and their sources -- The Greek chorus -- Old comedy and new -- Greek and Roman stage production. The Medieval theatre. Origins -- Playwrights and their sources -- Medieval stage production. The Renaissance theatre. Stage production -- The popular theatre -- Playwrights and their sources. The European theatre, 1650-1800. Neoclassical theory in France and England -- The immorality of the restoration stage -- The comedy of wit and the comedy of sentiment -- The bourgeois serious drama. v. 2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The nineteenth century. New perspectives on Shakespeare - Dramatic theory: from Romanticism to Naturalism -- A playwright and his sources -- Stage production: from Romanticism to Naturalism. The twentieth century. New perspectives in stage production -- New perspectives in criticism and theory -- Playwrights and their sources. The American drama and theatre, 1800-1930. European domination and the need for reform -- The star system -- American stereotypes in farce and melodrama -- The advent of realism: the impact of Ibsen and Shaw -- The new stagecraft -- American tragedy -- American social theatre in the thirties.

LCCN

^^^63007567^

OCLC

• 329888
• SCSB-11843535

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library