Sheldon Cheney's Theatre arts magazine : promoting a modern American theatre, 1916-1921 / DeAnna M. Toten Beard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toten Beard, Deanna M., 1969-

Contributor:

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Performing arts.

Theatre arts magazine.

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.

Cheney, Sheldon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921 is an anthology designed to enrich understanding of a critical period in U.S. history and to illuminate major issues of 20th century theatre and drama. Every chapter of the book considers a different topic relevant to the magazine by providing an introductory essay followed by selected articles with full notation.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Sheldon Cheney: A Missionary of Modernism; ""Foreword to Volume I; ""Editorial""; ""Editorial""; ""What We Stand For""; ""On Stylization""; ""Those Germans!""; ""Provincialism""; ""Why We Are Moving""; ""Foreword to Volume II""; ""Our Ideals and Our Critics""; Chapter Two: Conditions in American Theatre: Righteous Indignation; ""New York's Best Season""; ""About the Portmanteau Theatre""; ""Fooling with Repertory""; ""The Art Theatre and Repertory""

""At Last-A National Theatre""""The Road-Town Problem""; ""Closing of the Chicago Little Theatre""; ""Comment on Current Plays""; ""Repertory Again""; ""The Washington Square Players""; ""A Futile War""; ""The New York Season""; ""The Theatre and War Memorials""; ""Curtain!""; ""Letter""; ""Lonely Places""; Chapter Three: International Influences: Good News from Abroad; ""New Books: The Mirror of Gesture""; ""Jacques Copeau""; ""The Moscow Art Theatre: A Model""; ""Wartime Theatres of England and France: Paris and the Mask of Picasso""; ""New Books: Noh: or Accomplishment""

""Newest Tendencies in the Paris Theatre""""The Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in America""; ""Sketches of Oriental Theatres, I""; ""Gordon Craig""; ""Sketches of Oriental Theatres, II""; ""Eurhythmies for the Theatre""; ""Theory and Practice in Russian Theatres""; ""Copeau-1921,""; Chapter Four: New Stagecraft: The Scenic Reformation; ""Acting and the New Stagecraft""; ""Exhibitions of Stage Art; ""Sam Hume's Adaptable Settings""; ""The Painter and the Stage""; ""A Note About Lee Simonson""; ""The Newest Art""; Bourgeois Galleries Exhibition of American Stage Design: ""Prefatory Note""

""The New Path of the Theatre""""The Necessary Illusion""; ""The Mission of the Stage Setting""; ""Artificiality and Reality in the Future Theatre""; ""If I Must""; ""Fashions in the Theatre""; ""The Future of Stage Art""; ""Scene and Action""; ""The New Stage Designing""; ""The Theatre of the Future""; ""The Stage""; ""Fantasy?""; ""Color and Light""; ""Hermann Rosse's Stage Designs""; ""The Centre of the Stage: Macbeth""; Chapter Five: American Plays and Playwrights: Seeking New Prophets; From ""The New Published Plays"" and ""Theatre Arts Bookshelf' Columns, 1916-1921

""Realistic Drama and the Experimental Theatre""""American Drama Mid-Channel""; ""Eugene O' Neill""; ""The New Season""; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Related Work:

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980. Selections. 2010.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31485-1

1-283-61628-9

9786613928733

0-8108-7267-6

OCLC:

815281365