Research Catalog

Title

500 years of theatre history : from the Brown-Forman classics in context festival at actors theater of Louisville / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Val Smith.

Publication

Lyme, NH : Smith and Kraus, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dixon, Michael Bigelow
• Smith, Val, 1956 Sept. 25-
• Actors Theatre of Louisville
• Classics in Context Festival (1997 : Louisville, Ky.)

Description

xii, 436 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Art of theater series

Alternative Title

Five hundred years of theatre history

Subject

• Drama > History and criticism > Congresses
• Theater > History > Congresses

Note

• A collection of lectures given in conjunction with the Classics in Context Festival from 1986 to 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Commedia dell'arte and the comic spirit : The rise and fall of commedia dell'arte / Robert L. Erenstein -- Custard's first stand : origins of American slapstick comedy / Laurence Senelick -- Molière : the man and his times: Monsieur de Molière : full-face and profile / Michel Vinaver -- Comedy of manners : the Restoration through the early 18th century : Charles' fountain, the pineapple, and the oyster woman : theatricality and libertinism in the mirror of the crown / Julie Stone Peters -- Restoration drama : the second flowering of the English theatre / Albert Wertheim -- The Romantics : on state and behind the scene / Michel Vinaver -- the spirit of Romanticism / Victor Brombert -- The Victorians : fantasy and reality : Ragged children, dream children, stage children / Nina Auerbach -- Illusion and reality : the Victorian stage / Michael R. Booth -- Moscow Art Theatre : past, present, future : The visionary sons of Stanislavsky / Paul Schmidt -- Chekhov, Gorky, and the identity of the Moscow Art Theatre / Laurence Senelick -- The American Pirandello Festival : Love and theatre : Pirandello's life as inspiration for his plays / Pietro Frassica -- The playwright's legacy : Pirandello and the modern age / Louis Fantasia -- The theatre of the Weimar Republic : Germany 1918-1933 : Experiment and mass appeal : theatre of the Weimar Republic / Heniz-Uwe Haus -- The roaring twenties : American theatre in the twenties / Anne Bogart -- Romantic comedy of Ferenc Molnar : The life and plays of Ferenc Molnár, citizen of the world / Tamas Ungvari -- The romantic comedies of Ferenc Molnár : courtships and courtshipwrecks / Patricia M. Troxel --Wilder rediscovered : Thorrnton Wilder at 100 : Wilder's literary legacy / Jackson R. Bryer -- Steinbeck : on stage and film : West of Sag Harbor : the very American theatricality of John Steinbeck / Porter Anderson -- Modern masters-- Anne Bogart : The meat of the medium : Anne Bogart and the American avant-garde / Porter Anderson. 650 0Drama

Call Number

MWEC 17-2198

ISBN

1575251736

LCCN

99048120

OCLC

42475671

Title

500 years of theatre history : from the Brown-Forman classics in context festival at actors theater of Louisville / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Val Smith.

Imprint

Lyme, NH : Smith and Kraus, 2000.

Series

Art of theater series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Dixon, Michael Bigelow.

Smith, Val, 1956 Sept. 25-

Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Classics in Context Festival (1997 : Louisville, Ky.)

Research Call Number

MWEC 17-2198