Studies in speech and drama
Subtitle: in honor of Alexander M. Drummond.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Drummond, Alexander Magnus, 1884-; Oratory; Drama; Theater
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (at end of each essay except the first)
--Arnold Bennett and the drama, by Argus Tresidder.--The dialectal significance of the non-phonemic lowback vowel variants before R, by C.K. Thomas.--The pronunciation of monosyllabic form-words in American English. by L.S. Hultzén.--The meaning of dispositio, by R.H. Wagner.--The decay of eloquence at Rome in the first century, by Harry Caplan.--Compendium rhetorices by Erasmus: a translation, by H.H. Hudson.--The listener on eloquence 1750-1800, by H.F. Harding.--Edmund Burke's conversation, by D.C. Bryant.--God's dramatist, by C.H. King.--The style of Robert G. Ingersoll, by W.M. Parrish.--On analogy: re-definition and some implications, by K.R. Wallace.--Contemporary theories of public opinion, by W.E. Utterback.--The forensic mind, by Richard Murphy.
Table of contents: title: Alexander M. Drummond, by H.H. Hudson.; title: Musical drama as a union of all the arts, by H.D. Albright.; title: Stanislavski and the idea, by Edwin Duerr.; title: Expression in stage scenery, by Barnard Hewitt.; title: Color music, by W.H. Stainton.; title: Senecan influence in Gorboduc, by M.T. Herrick.; title: Some plays in the repertoires of the patent houses, by A.L. Woehl.; title: Actors and audiences in eighteenth-century London, by William Angus.; title: The stage Yankee, by J.W. Curvin.; title: The realism in romanticism: Hugo and Wordsworth, by Leland Schubert.; title: Henry Irving, 1870-1890, by E.J. West.; title: The Meininger: an evaluation, by Joel Trapido.; title: The challenge of Ibsen: a study in critical contradictions, by Ross Scanlan.