Main entry:

Macgowan, Kenneth, 1888-1963, author.

Title & Author:

The living stage : a history of the world theater / Kenneth Macgowan, Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, William Melnitz, Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Los Angeles ; including 50 illustrations by Gerda Becker With.

Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1955]
©1955

Description:

xii, 543 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-518) and index.
Preface -- Theater begins with primitive man -- The great Greeks and the much lesser Latins -- Theater reborn before medieval altars -- The Renaissance theater in Italy -- Spain's golden age -- The theater that Elizabeth I sustained -- France in and out of the Renaissance -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century in England -- 1500 to 1800 in Teutonic lands -- The eighteenth century in France and America -- The oriental theater -- The nineteenth century, a time of change in Europe -- The American theater, 1800 to 1900 -- Twentieth-century realism -- The theater of today and tomorrow.

Summary:

Examines the personalities and events which shaped the development of acting and the theater from ancient Egypt.

Subject:

Theater History.
Théâtre Histoire.
24.11 history of drama.
Theater
Teatro (Critica)
Theatre History.

Form/genre:

History
History (form)

Added entries:

Melnitz, William W., author.
With, Gerda, illustrator.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., publisher.
United States New Jersey Englewood Cliffs ,
Melnitz, William, joint author.

History of the world theater

Holdings:

Location: Library main 4431
Call No.: W16509; ID:87-B20095
Status: Available