A 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.; 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.