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500 years of theatre history : from the Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville

Title
500 years of theatre history : from the Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Val Smith.
Author
Classics in Context Festival (1999 : Louisville, Ky.)
Publication
Lyme, NH : Smith and Kraus, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Dixon, Michael Bigelow
  • Smith, Val, 1956 September 25-
Description
xii, 436 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
The art of theatre series
Uniform Title
Art of theater series
Alternative Title
  • 500 years of theater history
  • Five hundred years of theatre history
Subject
  • Drama > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Theater > History > Congresses
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.
ISBN
  • 1575251736
  • 9781575251738
LCCN
99048120
OCLC
  • ocm42475671
  • SCSB-1657255
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library