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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hunt, Hugh, 1911- Live theatre. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962 (OCoLC)572862876 |
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| 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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