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The live theatre; an introduction to the history and practice of the stage.

Author: Hugh Hunt
Publisher: London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hunt, Hugh, 1911-
Live theatre.
London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962
(OCoLC)572862876
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hugh Hunt
OCLC Number: 1885565
Description: 199 p. illus. 23 cm.
Contents: Prologue: the nature of entertainment --
The ingredients of theatre --
The ritual theatre: the theatre of Athens --
Ritual in performance: some problems of producing Greek plays --
The secular theatre: new comedy and the Roman theatre --
The pageant theatre: liturgical plays and the religious cycles --
A plea for pageantry: some problems of producing medieval mystery plays --
The professional theatre: the strolling players and the public theatres --
Poetic action: Shakespeare's stage-craft and contemporary production --
The theatre of illusion: the indoor playhouses and the Restoration theatre --
Artificial acting: the performance of Restoration comedy --
The growth of illusion: theatre during the eighteenth century --
The materialist theatre: melodrama and spectacle --
The theatre of actuality: the birth of realism --
The confusion of styles: the theatre of the early twentieth century --
The new continental and American theatre --
Revolution in the theatre: British theatre today --
Creative interpretation: the search for a philosophy --
The practice of theatre.

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