Studies in speech and drama, in honor of Alexander M. Drummond.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drummond, A. M. (Alexander Magnus), 1884-1956.

Drummond, A. M.

Oratory.

Drama.

Theater.

Physical Description:

viii, 472 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations (map) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1944.

Contents:

Alexander M. Drummond, by H.H. Hudson.

Musical drama as a union of all the arts, by H.D. Albright.

Stanislavski and the idea, by Edwin Duerr.

Expression in stage scenery, by Barnard Hewitt.

Color music, by W.H. Stainton.

Senecan influence in Gorboduc, by M.T. Herrick.

Some plays in the repertoires of the patent houses, by A.L. Woehl.

Actors and audiences in eighteenth-century London, by William Angus.

The stage Yankee, by J.W. Curvin.

The realism in romanticism: Hugo and Wordsworth, by Leland Schubert.

Henry Irving, 1870-1890, by E.J. West.

The Meininger: an evaluation, by Joel Trapido.

The challenge of Ibsen: a study in critical contradictions, by Ross Scanlan.

Notes:

--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.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (at end of each essay except the first).

OCLC:

346373