TIMSON, D.: History of Theatre (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Timson, David, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Prologue ( 05 min., 17 sec. )

The Greek Drama ( 03 min., 53 sec. )

Greek Tragedy ( 03 min., 50 sec. )

Greek Theatres ( 03 min., 19 sec. )

Oedipus: 'Torment, Torment...' ( 02 min., 36 sec. )

Greek Acting ( 03 min., 51 sec. )

Greek Comedy ( 04 min., 10 sec. )

Kinesias: It's O, so long since you and I have known The rites of love! - won't you come back, my ow ( 03 min., 02 sec. )

Roman Theatre ( 02 min., 48 sec. )

The Medieval Theatre: Its Origins ( 01 min., 48 sec. )

'1st. Voice: While the third lesson is being chanted let 4 brethren vest themselves...' ( 02 min., 15 sec. )

Growth And Development Of Mystery Plays ( 06 min., 01 sec. )

'The effect associated with Heaven and Hell were veritably prodigious' Description Of Stage Machiner ( 03 min., 09 sec. )

'God: Ego sum Alpha et Omega, vita, via, Veritas, primus en nouissimus.' ( 04 min., 27 sec. )

Development Of Miracle And Morality Plays ( 03 min., 20 sec. )

The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte ( 12 min., 43 sec. )

The Elizabethan Theatre ( 04 min., 31 sec. )

The Structure Of A Playhouse - Description Of Burbage's Acting By Richard Flecknoe ( 01 min., 56 sec. )

'...Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth ( 02 min., 16 sec. )

An Attack On The Theatre By John Stockwood 1587 ( 22 sec. )

Christopher Marlowe And His Contemporaries ( 01 min., 32 sec. )

Tamburlaine: 'Forsake thy King, and do but join with me, And we will triumph over all the world' ( 01 min. )

Faustus: 'The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus m ( 03 min., 31 sec. )

William Shakespeare (1546-1616) And His Plays ( 05 min., 52 sec. )

Excerpts From Shakespeare's Plays: As You Like It - Romeo and Juliet - Henry V - Henry IV part 1 - A Mi ( 05 min., 19 sec. )

The Jacobean Theatre (1603-1642) ( 02 min., 24 sec. )

Duchess: 'Now what you please, What death? Bosola: Strangling: here are your executioners.' ( 01 min., 45 sec. )

Development Of The Private Theatre - Description Of A Private Audience By John Marstoni (1601) ( 59 sec. )

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ( 49 sec. )

Ursula: Hang 'em, rotten, roguy cheaters, I hope to see 'em plagued one day (poxed they are already, ( 03 min., 09 sec. )

Spanish Theatre In The Renaissance ( 04 min., 24 sec. )

Sigismund: 'The rich man dreams his riches, dreams his cares; ( 01 min., 30 sec. )

The French Theatre In The Seventeenth Century ( 04 min., 32 sec. )

Phedre: 'There love will always live. Even as I speak, ah cruel, deadly thought! They flout the fury ( 02 min., 16 sec. )

The Structure Of French Theatres ( 01 min., 03 sec. )

Moliere (1622-1673) (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) ( 04 min., 25 sec. )

Mr Jordan: ...And now I must tell you a secret. I'm in love with a lady of quality and I want you to ( 02 min., 48 sec. )

Elmire: What? is there no avoiding your pursuit. Will you not give me time to breathe? ( 04 min., 12 sec. )

The English Restoration Theatre (1660-1700) ( 09 min., 52 sec. )

Thomas Jordan's Prologue to The Moor Of Venice (1660) ( 01 min., 26 sec. )

The Development Of Restoration Comedy ( 01 min., 56 sec. )

Harriet: 'I was informed you used to laugh at love, and not make it.' ( 01 min., 22 sec. )

Lord Foppington: ...my life, madam, is a perpetual stream of pleasure, that glides thro' such a vari ( 01 min., 23 sec. )

Mrs. Pinchwife: 'Dear Sweet Mr. Horner' ...So...' ( 01 min., 27 sec. )

From A Short View Of The Immorality And Profaneness Of The English Stage. ( 01 min., 59 sec. )

Millamant: Positively, Mirabell, I'll lie a-bed in a morning as long as I please. Mirabell: Then I'l ( 03 min., 23 sec. )

From The Diary Of Samuel Pepys (1667) ( 47 sec. )

European Theatre In The Eighteenth Century ( 04 min., 50 sec. )

German Theatre In The 18th Century ( 05 min., 53 sec. )

Elizabeth: Say then, what surety can be offer'd me, Should I magnanimously loose your bonds? ( 01 min., 55 sec. )

The English Theatre In The Early Eighteenth Century ( 04 min., 33 sec. )

The Development Of English Pantomime ( 03 min., 29 sec. )

The Introduction Of The Theatre Licensing Act In England (1737) ( 02 min., 12 sec. )

David Garrick (1717-1779) And The English Theatre In The Late Eighteenth Century ( 06 min., 41 sec. )

Description Of Garrick As Abel Drugger In The Alchemist ( 01 min., 43 sec. )

The Programme Of An Eighteenth Century English Theatre ( 01 min., 59 sec. )

An Eighteenth Century Audience ( 02 min., 39 sec. )

Sir Anthony: Why, Mrs. Malaprop, in moderation, now, what would you have a woman know? ( 02 min., 28 sec. )

Beaumarchais (1732-1799) And The French Theatre In The Late Eighteenth Century ( 02 min., 15 sec. )

The Count: With your brains and character you could hope for advancement in the service. Figaro: Bra ( 02 min., 05 sec. )

The Development Of The Theatre In America (1800-1860s) ( 06 min., 27 sec. )

Romantic Melodrama In Nineteenth Century Europe ( 05 min., 37 sec. )

The Development Of Farce ( 03 min., 19 sec. )

Henry Irving (1838-1905), And English Theatre In The Late Nineteenth Century ( 47 sec. )

Description Of Irving In The Bells By Edward Gordon-Craig ( 03 min., 48 sec. )

The Biginning Of The Theatre Of Ideas And Realism ( 02 min., 19 sec. )

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) ( 05 min., 40 sec. )

Helmer: To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! And only think what people will say a ( 04 min., 58 sec. )

George Bernard Shaw ( 01 min., 29 sec. )

Higgins: Say your alphabet Liza: I know my alphabet. Do you think I know nothing? ( 01 min., 49 sec. )

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ( 04 min., 36 sec. )

The Seagull By Anton Chekhov ( 01 min., 51 sec. )

Nina: The horses are waiting for me at the gate. Don't see me off, I'll go by myself... ( 02 min., 18 sec. )

Stanislavsky And The Moscow Arts Theatre ( 39 sec. )

From The Writings Of Stanislavsky ( 58 sec. )

The Growth Of Ensemble Companies ( 02 min., 31 sec. )

Lady Bracknell: ...Now to minor matters. Are your parents living? Jack: I have lost both my parents. ( 02 min., 01 sec. )

Theatrical Experiments In The Early Twentieth Century ( 05 min., 41 sec. )

The Theatre Of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) ( 02 min., 10 sec. )

The Political Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) ( 03 min., 09 sec. )

American Theatre In The Early Twentieth Century And Eugene O'Neill ( 02 min., 41 sec. )

A Long Day's Journey Into Night (Act IV) ( 04 min., 28 sec. )

European Theatre In The 1930s and 1940s; Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1935) ( 01 min., 56 sec. )

The London Theatre, And Noel Coward (1899-1973) ( 02 min., 34 sec. )

Amanda: We won't talk about ourselves any more, we'll talk about outside things, anything you like, ( 01 min., 11 sec. )

Post-War British Theatre And John Osborne (1929-1989) ( 02 min., 37 sec. )

Alison: (softly) All I want is a little peace Jimmy: Peace ! God ! She wants peace! ( 02 min., 37 sec. )

Theatre Of The Absurd And Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ( 03 min., 26 sec. )

Vladimir: 9sententiously) To every man his little cross (He sighs) and sits on the mound Till he die ( 01 min., 37 sec. )

Harold Pinter (1930- ) ( 01 min., 50 sec. )

Aston: I...I think it's about time you found somewhere else. I don't think we're hitting it off. Da ( 02 min., 29 sec. )

British Theatre In The 1960s And Joe Orton (1933-1967) ( 01 min., 54 sec. )

Post-War American Theatre, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), Arthur Miller (1915- ) And David Mamet (1 ( 01 min., 46 sec. )

Willy: '...When I was a boy - eighteen, nineteen - I was already on the road.' ( 03 min., 49 sec. )

Blanche: 'When I think of how divine it is going to be to have such a thing as privacy once more - I ( 07 min., 04 sec. )

Experimental Theatre In The 1960s And 1970s ( 04 min., 43 sec. )

Developments In The Theatre From 1970-1990 ( 03 min., 26 sec. )

Epilogue ( 04 minutes, 26 sec. )

Participant:

Gallagher, Teresa, Reader -- McAndrew, John, Reader -- Faber, Caroline, Reader -- Boyd, Carole, Reader -- Jacobi, Derek, Reader -- Timson, David, Author

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Publisher Number:

9789626341995

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