book about the theater
By: by Brander Matthews.
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1916
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Theater -- History; Theater; Drama -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: The show business; title: The limitations of the stage; title: A moral from a toy theater; title: Why five acts?; title: Dramatic collaboration; title: The dramatization of novels and the novelization of plays; title: Women dramatists; title: The evolution of scene-painting; title: The book of the opera; title: The poetry of the dance; title: The principles of pantomime; title: The ideal of the acrobat; title: The decline and fall of the negro-minstrelsy; title: The utility of the variety-show; title: The method of modern magic; title: The lamentable tragedy of Punch and Judy; title: The puppet-play, past and present; title: Shadow-pantomime, with all the modern improvements; title: The problem of dramatic criticism.