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Our Stage And Its Critics Classic Reprint
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Author : Edward Fordham Spence
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-13
Our Stage And Its Critics Classic Reprint written by Edward Fordham Spence and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Our Stage and Its Critics Hilst reading the proof-sheets of these articles Ihave been oppressed by the thought that they give a gloomy idea about the state of our Stage. Yet I am naturally sanguine. Indeed, no one taking a deep interest in our drama could have written for a score or so of years about it unless of a naturally sanguine temperament. There has been great progress during my time, yet we still are far from possessing a modern national drama creditable to us. Some imagine that the British have no inborn genius for writing drama, or acting it, and look upon those dramatists and players whose greatness cannot be denied as mere exceptions to a rule. Without alleging that at the moment we have a Shakespeare, a Garrick or a Siddons, I assert confidently that we own dramatists and players able, if rightly used, to make our theatre worthy of our country and also that the misuse of them is appalling. For very many years the history of the English stage has been chiefly a record of waste, of gross commercialism and of honest efforts ruined by adherence to mischievous traditions the Scottish and Irish stage have been mere reflections of our own. At the moment Ireland is making a brave and remarkably successful effort at emancipation, and during the last few years has laid the foundations of a National Theatre and built a good deal upon them. Scotland lags a little, yet the energy and enthusiasm of Mr Alfred Wareing and the citizens of Glasgow have enabled them to create an institution not unlikely to serve as the home of a real Scots drama. They offer to the native playwright an opportunity of showing that a national drama - not a drama merely echoing the drama of other lands - lies inherent in the race. Who knows that they may not induce that wayward man of genius, J. M. Barrie, to become the parent of Scots drama by honestly and sincerely using his rare gifts as dramatist in an effort to express the pathos and the humour, the courage and the shyness, the shrewdness and the imagination, and also the less agreeable qualities and characteristics of our brothers across the border. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Our Stage And Its Critics
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Author : Edward Fordham Spence
language : en
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Release Date : 1910
Our Stage And Its Critics written by Edward Fordham Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Criticism categories.
Our Stage And Its Critics
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Author : EDWARD FORDHAM. SPENCE
language : en
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Release Date : 2018
Our Stage And Its Critics written by EDWARD FORDHAM. SPENCE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Our Stage And Its Critics By E F S Of The Westminster Gazette
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Author : Edward Fordham Spence
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-08
Our Stage And Its Critics By E F S Of The Westminster Gazette written by Edward Fordham Spence and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-08 with categories.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" By Edward Fordham Spence CHAPTER I THE DRAMATIC CRITIC His Qualifications The production of a play in the Russian tongue renders topical a phrase once used, not unhappily, by Mr Cecil Raleigh concerning the qualifications of the dramatic critic. After listening to a somewhat extravagant speech about the duties of the critic, he said that the dramatic critic ought, apparently, to be a "polyglot archangel." During the last few years we have had plays in Russian, Japanese, Bavarian patois, Dutch, German, French and Italian, to say nothing of East End performances in Hebrew and Yiddish, which we neglect. Latin drama we hear at Westminster; a Greek company came to the Court but did not act. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Repertory Theatre
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Author : Percival Presland Howe
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-22
The Repertory Theatre written by Percival Presland Howe and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from The Repertory Theatre: A Record and a Criticism This book, then, is a deliberate blow on behalf of the repertory theatre. In the nature of things there cannot be a great deal of force behind it; that must be supplied by more influential critics, by kindly disposed magnates, and above all, by the practical worker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Study And Stage
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Author : William Archer
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-01
Study And Stage written by William Archer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Excerpt from Study and Stage: A Year-Book of Criticism Were it not that Mr. Quiller Couch had already made use, and excellent use, of the title, I should have called this little book Adventures in Criticism. For it is one of the alleviations of the journalist-critic's in the main unenviable calling that it is above all things adventurous. He plods no mill-horse round of unvarying toil, but sallies forth day by day into the forest of contemporary literature, blissfully uncertain as to what good or evil chance may await him. Destiny, working for the most part through the instrumentality of Editors and Managers, metes out to him many a tedious and well-nigh degrading task, but docs not fail to intersperse a fair proportion of spirit-stirring and delightsome happenings. He never knows what adventure may await him round the next turn of the glade. It may be the championing of Beauty in distress, baited by a rabble rout of paynim Philistines. It may be an ambush set for him by some felon knight. It may be (and this is not the least agreeable contingency) a splintering of lances with some courteous comrade-in-arms, in defence of a contested Ideal. And ever and anon, in some richly-dight pavilion on a lilied lawn, aerial harmonics will allure him to a magic banquet, quickening alike to sense and soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A View Of The English Stage Or A Series Of Dramatic Criticisms Classic Reprint
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Author : William Hazlitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-07
A View Of The English Stage Or A Series Of Dramatic Criticisms Classic Reprint written by William Hazlitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from A View of the English Stage or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms This edition of Hazlitt's View of the English Stage contains the whole of that book as first issued in 1818. The articles were selected by the author from his contributions to various newspapers, as he states in his preface, and were reprinted with the very slightest revision from the papers in which they first appeared, but with considerable omissions. They have been compared for this edition with the original newspapers, and those portions which were omitted in 1818 have been supplied between square brackets. The author's own notes are given: those which were in the periodical and in the reprint are marked "Original Note"; those which were in the paper but not in the volume are marked "Note in" (with the name of the journal); and those which first appeared in 1818 are marked "W. H." The dates at the head of the articles are those of the original publication, as that plan was adopted with more or less accuracy by the author. Many other contributions of Hazlitt to these newspapers have been identified with confidence almost amounting to certainty; only two of them are printed in the Appendix to this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Theory Of The Theatre And Other Principles Of Dramatic Criticism Classic Reprint
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Author : Clayton Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-01
The Theory Of The Theatre And Other Principles Of Dramatic Criticism Classic Reprint written by Clayton Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from The Theory of the Theatre and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism Most of the chapters which make up the present volume have already appeared, in earlier versions, in certain magazines; and to the editors of The Forum, The North American Review, The Smart Set, and The Bookman, I am indebted for permission to republish such materials as I have culled from my contributions to their pages. Though these papers were written at different times and for different immediate circles of subscribers, they were all designed from the outset to illustrate certain steady central principles of dramatic criticism; and, thus collected, they afford, I think, a consistent exposition of the most important points in the theory of the theatre. The introductory chapter, entitled What is a Play?, has not, in any form, appeared in print before; and all the other papers have been diligently revised, and in many passages entirely rewritten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Our Stage And Its Critics
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Author : Edward Fordham Spence
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Our Stage And Its Critics written by Edward Fordham Spence and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Drama categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Our Stage and Its Critics" (By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette") by Edward Fordham Spence. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Another Book On The Theatre Classic Reprint
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Author : George Jean Nathan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-01
Another Book On The Theatre Classic Reprint written by George Jean Nathan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from Another Book on the Theatre The ambition to become a dramatic critic assails probably nine city boy-children out of ten in that epoch which lies between their ambition to become President of the United States (an ambition rejected not later than the age of eleven by all better-class youngsters) and the somewhat loftier subsequent ambition to marry Gaby Deslys. This ambition to grow up to be a professional remarker on the theatre is variously inculcated in youths. In the first place, they have at a very early age read the critical works of Mr. William Winter. A careful perusal of these standard critical works has convinced them that dramatic criticism is the pastime of taking luncheon with beautiful and prominent Shakespearean actresses. In the second place, they have read in the Sunday newspaper supplements many interviews by the dramatic critic of the paper in which that bored bird has recited the manner in which superb actresses have received him in their lacy peignoirs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.