Screen LibraryThe theatre : a concise history /
A richly illustrated history of acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, and the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature--global in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theatre in the choral hymns sung around the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety...
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Thames & Hudson,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition, rev. and extended / by Enoch Brater. |
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World of art
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A richly illustrated history of acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, and the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature--global in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theatre in the choral hymns sung around the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety of forms that it has taken in our own age. -- |
| Item Description: | "First published in the United States of America in 1968 as "A Concise History of the Theatre"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780500204092 0500204098 |
| Index Number: | PN2101 |
| CLC: | J809 |
| Call Number: | J809/H333/4th ed. |
| Contents: | The Greek and Roman theatre -- The medieval theatre -- The theatre of the Italian Renaissance -- The Elizabethan theatre -- The golden age of Spain and France -- The English restoration theatre -- The theatre in eighteenth-century Germany -- France before the Revolution -- The early nineteenth-century theatre -- The later nineteenth-century theatre -- Ibsen, Chekhov and the theatre of ideas -- The modern theatre -- The contemporary theatre. |