In The Playwright as Rebel, Nicholas Dromgoole's collected essays in theatre history not only examine particular plays as key moments in drama history, but set them in their cultural and historical context. Theatre is seen as playing a key part in disseminating ideas, attitudes and assumptions at crucial moments of social and ideological change.
In The Playwright as Rebel, Nicholas Dromgoole's collected essays in theatre history not only examine particular plays as key moments in drama ...
he religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon.
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he religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit ...
Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and...
Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different bus...
