The theatre; three thousand years of drama, acting and stagecraft / by Sheldon Cheney. With 204 illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History.

Theater.

History.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Wood, Audrey, 1905- (autograph) (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 leaf, 558 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tudor Pub. Co., [©1929]

Contents:

The theatre, human and divine

Where the theatre came from, and when

Tragedy: the noble Greeks

Comedy: Greece and Rome

Sensuous and intellectual theatres: the Orient

The theatre in the church

The mediæval spirit and the stage

The glorious Renaissance, with reservations

A pretty interlude, pastoral and operatic

The vulgar popular comedy

The chivalrous theatre of Spain

Shakespeare

The Puritans and the chapel of Satan

Kings, courtesans, and dramatists of France

Opera, picturing, and acting

Sturm und drang

The theatre and the birth of democracy

Romanticism: the theatre as escape

Well-made plays and pretty scenery: Victorianism

Realism: photography and journalism on the stage

The theatre and its swell relations: the other arts

The theatre of the early twentieth century

The rise of production as an art

Machine-age developments

Epilogue: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Notes:

"Published in the United States of America."

"General bibliography": pages 547-549.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Audrey Wood January 1st 1938" on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp "Audrey Wood Westport, Connecticut" on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is sixth printing, June 1937.

OCLC:

2661821