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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Molinari, Cesare, 1935- Theatre through the ages. New York, McGraw-Hill [1975] (OCoLC)643558486 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cesare Molinari |
| ISBN: | 0070426651 9780070426658 |
| OCLC Number: | 810975 |
| Notes: | Translation of Teatro. |
| Description: | 324 pages illustrations 30 cm |
| Contents: | Theatre among primitive peoples -- The origins of Greek tragedy and the satyric drama -- Greek tragedy in the fifth century B.C. -- Aristophanes and Greek comedy -- The architecture of Hellenistic and Roman theatres -- Roman theatre -- Everyday theatre in the Middle Ages: mimes and minstrels -- Liturgical drama -- The mystery-plays: religious theatre for the people -- The humanist revival of ancient classical theatre -- Learning, speculation and archeology in the Renaissance -- The baroque vogue for opera -- The commedia dell'arte -- French professional acting from farce to tragedy -- The comedie francaise in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Theatre on wheels and in courtyards in the golden age -- For the kings of England -- four and five fencing foils and one wooden hoop -- English theatre during the Restoration -- Garrick and Shakespearian interpretation -- Lessing and middle-class theatre -- History, Shakespeare, and romanticism -- The boulevards of Paris and the strolling players of romantic Italy -- Forms and motifs in the oriental tradition -- Naturalism and psychological realism: Antoine and Stanislavsky -- The theatre artist and his symbols -- Theatre and poltic and the strolling players of romantic Italy -- Forms and motifs in the oriental tradition -- Naturalism and psychological realism: Antoine and Stanislavsky -- The theatre artist and his symbols -- Theatre and political strife -- The disintegration of theatrical space. |
| Other Titles: | Teatro. |
| Responsibility: | Translated by Colin Hamer. |
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