| Description |
xii, 334 p. front., plates, facsim. 24 cm. |
| Note |
Reprint of the 1916 ed. published by Scribner. |
| Contents |
The show business.--The limitations of the stage.--A moral from a toy theater.--Why five acts?--Dramatic collaboration.--The dramatization of novels and the novelization of plays.--Women dramatists.--The evolution of scene-painting.--The book of the opera.--The poetry of the dance.--The principles of pantomime.--The ideal of the acrobat.--The decline and fall of the Negro-minstrelsy.--The utility of the variety-show.--The method of modern magic.--The lamentable tragedy of Punch and Judy.--The puppet-play, past and present.--Shadow-pantomime, with all the modern improvements.--The problem of dramatic criticism. |
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Theater.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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