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Sheldon Cheney's Theatre arts magazine : promoting a modern American theatre, 1916-1921 /

Enriches understanding this critical period in American history and illuminates the major issues of 20th-century theatre and drama.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toten Beard, Deanna M., 1969-
Otros Autores: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 TheatreThe 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 TheatreThe 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 TheatreAmerican Drama Mid-Channel
  • Eugene O' Neill
  • The New Season
  • Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author