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Theatre, the search for style : master directors on style, Chekhov to kabuki to musical comedy
- Title
- Theatre, the search for style : master directors on style, Chekhov to kabuki to musical comedy / by John D. Mitchell.
- Author
- Mitchell, John D. (John Dietrich), 1917-2005
- Publication
- Midland, Mich. : Northwood Institute Press, ©1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1655 .M55 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 332 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- Interviews.
- Théâtre.
- Note
- Interviews with Lehman Engel and others.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- A history of Iasta's search for style -- American musical comedy: "energy as theatre" -- Peking opera: "the virtuoso actor as theatre" -- Shakespeare: Macbeth: "the universal" -- Kabuki: "theatre as beauty of form" -- Jacobean: Duchess of Malfi: "death and rhetoric as theatre" -- Spanish golden age: "cape and sword theatre" -- Commedia Dell'Arte: "making words music" -- Comedy of manners: "stand-up and talk as theatre" -- The Greek classic: Elektra: "the chorus as theatre" -- Sanskrit: "theatre as a temple" -- The medieval: Mary of Nijmeghen: "religion as theatre" -- Noh: "skill and concentration" -- French neo-classic: Phedre: "the iron corset as theatre" -- Feydeau: "the Swiss watch as theatre" -- German romanticism: Schiller: "storm and stress" -- Brecht: "the familiar made strange" -- Polish: The Wedding: "nationalism as theatre" -- Checkhov: "reality as theatre" -- The future of theatre and the search for style.
- ISBN
- 0873590287
- 9780873590280
- LCCN
- 81085193
- OCLC
- ocm08445102
- 8445102
- SCSB-56083
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library