Shaw's theater / Bernard F. Dukore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dukore, Bernard F., 1931-

Series:

The Florida Bernard Shaw series

The Florida Bernard Shaw series Shaw's theater

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Stage history.

Shaw, Bernard.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Dramatic production.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 267 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

List of illustrations

Foreword / by R.F. Dietrich

Preface

Acknowledgments

[pt.] 1. Bernard Shaw, director

[ch.] 1. Theater background and experience

[ch.] 2. The director : goals and groundwork

[ch.] 3. General directing practices

[ch.] 4. The actor

[ch.] 5. Stage effects and stage effectiveness

[ch.] 6. The technical elements of production

[ch.] 7. The business of theater

[pt.] 2. The director as interpreter : Shaw's Pygmalion

[pt.] 3. The theater in Bernard Shaw's drama

Widowers' houses

The Philanderer

Arms and the man

The man of destiny

You never can tell

The Devil's disciple

Cæsar and Cleopatra

John Bull's other island

Passion, poison, and petrification

Major Barbara

The doctor's dilemma

The inauguration speech : an interlude

Misalliance

The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The dark lady of the sonnets

Fanny's first play

Androcles and the lion

Pygmalion

Cæsar and Cleopatra : The Ra prologue

The music-cure

The Inca of Perusalem

Back to Methuselah

Saint Joan

Too true to be good

The simpleton of the unexpected isles

Shakes versus Shav

Shaw's use of the theater as dramatic device.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-259) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2239-8