Entrée principale:

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.

Titre et auteur:

The theatre; three thousand years of drama, acting and stagecraft, by Sheldon Cheney. With 204 illustrations.

Publication:

London, New York Longmans, Green and Co. 1929.

Description:

ix, 558 pages 24 cm

Notes:
"First edition."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-549).
Dionysus -- The theatre, human and divine -- Where the theatre came from, and when -- Tragedy: the noble Greeks -- Comedy: Greece and Rome -- Sensuous and intellectual theatres: the Orient -- The theatre in the church -- The Mediaeval spirit and the stage -- The glorious Renaissance -- with reservations -- A pretty interlude -- pastoral and operatic -- The vulgar popular comedy -- The chivalrous theatre of Spain -- Shakespeare -- The Puritans and the chapel of Satan -- Kings, courtesans, and dramatists of France -- Opera, picturing, and acting -- "Sturm und Drang" -- The theatre and the birth of democracy -- Romanticism: the theatre as escape -- Well-made plays and pretty scenery: Victorianism -- Realism: photography and journalism on the stage -- The theatre and its swell relations: the other arts -- The theatre of the early twentieth century -- The rise of production as an art -- Machine-age developments -- Epilogue: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Sujet:

Theater History.
Drama History and criticism.
Théâtre Histoire.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) Histoire et critique.
Drama
Theater

Classification/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 111055
Cote: 3654 GF2379; ID:85-B18104
Statut: Disponible