Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Theater - General

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

'Shakespeare in Performance' offers a selection of scholarship on the Bard's work on stage. Classic previously out-of-print works are brought back into print here in this small set of performance history and criticism.

This is a one-of-a-kind reference work to the history of vaudeville, performance art, burlesque, revue, and comic opera. Most of these artists are not profiled in other reference books and the author has done deep research, including archival work and personal interviews, to uncover the rich history of this American artform. This will be a must-have for students of theater history and performance art, but it is also essential for anyone insterested in the cultural history of America.

Der Nachtragsband zum Deutschen Theater-Lexikon erganzt und erweitert die Bande I - IV (A - T, erschienen zwischen 1953 und 1998). Mit Schwerpunkt auf dem 20. Jahrhundert werden Artikel bearbeitet, noch nicht gelistete Personlichkeiten der deutschsprachigen Buhnen kommen neu hinzu.
Das Lexikon enthalt bio-bibliographische Angaben zu Dramatikern, Komponisten, Theaterleitern, Regisseuren, Schauspielern, Sangern, Buhnen- und Kostumbildnern.

This set not only reissues Volumes 1, 2 (part I and II) and 3, originally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1958, 1963, 1972 and 1981, but also, for the first time, Volume 4 is being produced to complete this fascinating and valuable set.Early English Stages is a history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660. The volumes are available as a compete set or individually, thereby offering the opportunity for owners of the original three volumes to bring the set to its natural conclusion.The final volume...