The Garrick Stage
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The Garrick Stage
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Author : Allardyce Nicoll
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1981
The Garrick Stage written by Allardyce Nicoll and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Garrick, David categories.
Stage To Screen Theatrical Method From Garrick To Griffith
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Author : A. Nicholas Vardac
language : en
Publisher: Davidson Press
Release Date : 2008-11
Stage To Screen Theatrical Method From Garrick To Griffith written by A. Nicholas Vardac and has been published by Davidson Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Drama categories.
STAGE TO SCREEN i THEATRICAL METHOD FROM 6ARRICE TO GRIFFITH A. NICHOLAS VARDAG HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE 1949 TO SPYROS P. SKOURAS PREFACE The position of the motion picture in the evolution of the theatre of the world has yet to be determined. Much has been written in description and in critical analysis of the film. These studies spread roots like aerial plants through a fruitless vacuum. The atmosphere of nineteenth-century theatre has yet to be cleared and the proper source of cinema exposed. A new art form does not simply appear. In aesthetic as well as scientific and political areas the old dies as the new is born, the whole process being as in sistent as it is gradual. The time has come to see how the film fits into the evolutionary pattern of world theatre, how the blood stream of the screen was drawn from the stage, and how, under the pressure of this withdrawal, certain stage forms died upon the boards. The roots of a new art form are to be found in the sociological needs and tensions, in the spirit of the times, which sponsor its growth. This tension is so thoroughly woven into the cultural fabric that it can best be identified through its expression in the arts, in this case, in the related arts of theatre and of staging. In this fashion the spiritual, the sociological, and most of all, the aesthetic roots of the motion picture can be revealed through a composite study of both the early film and theatrical methods during the years leading to and surrounding its birth. The patterns within this period of theatrical history, as yet uncharted, must be traced by direct scrutiny of the spectacular promptbooks and the revealing periodical accounts of productions appearingduring these years. From this body of source material the expression as well as the motivation of the forces, the social tensions, working behind the aesthetic strivings of the popular nineteenth-century stage, the early twentieth-century popular the atre, the early twentieth-century experimental producers the atre and finally the motion picture, will appear in their distinct vii PREFACE and special relationship. A more complete and accurate under standing of stage and screen will arise. I should like to acknowledge my gratitude to Professor Al lardyce Nicoll for his inestimable support of the ideas of this study. To Dr. William VanLennep, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, I am indebted for much valuable material. Untapped sources in that great collection eventually disclosed the use of cinematic devices upon the stage of the nineteenth century. To Miss Iris Barry, Curator of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, may I express appreciation for courtesy and con sideration in the arrangement of special showings of early Ameri can and foreign films. I am particularly grateful to Mr. Percy MacKaye, whose interest in my subject has made possible the use of material concerning the work of his father, Steele MacKaye, which otherwise might not have been available for presentation at this time. And for the careful editorial perusal of Professor Hubert C. Hef ier both the reader and myself will find, I am sure, good reason for gratitude. A. NICHOLAS VARDAC Palo Alto, California June 1947 vtti CONTEHTS INTRODUCTION REALISM - ROMANCE - AND THE DEVELOP MENT OF THE MOTION PICTURE xvii I THEATRES . STAGING METHODS - AND THE BREAKDOWN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONVENTIONS i II THEMELODRAMA CINEMATIC CONCEP TIONS AND SCREEN TECHNIQUES 20 III PICTURE PLAYS THE SPECTACLE STAGE 68 IV THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IDEAL 89 HENRY IRVING 89 DAVID BELASCO 108 STEELE MACKAYE 155 V PICTORIAL FANTASY THE PANTOMIME SPECTACLE 152 VI PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM THE BIRTH OF THE FILM 1895-1902 165 VII PICTORIAL FANTASY GEORGE MfiLIfcS 174 MELODRAMA THE PHOTOPLAY - 1902-1913 180 IX IX REALISM AND ROMANCE D. W. GRIFFITH 199 X SPECTACLE THE FEATURE FILM an XI FROM GARRICK TO GRIFFITH 34 NOTES 55 INDEX 73 . . MJ ...
Memoirs Of The Life Of David Garrick
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Author : Thomas Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1780
Memoirs Of The Life Of David Garrick written by Thomas Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1780 with Actors categories.
The Birth Of Modern Theatre
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Author : Norman S. Poser
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-20
The Birth Of Modern Theatre written by Norman S. Poser and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Performing Arts categories.
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.
The World Of David Garrick
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The World Of David Garrick written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Actors categories.
The Plays Of David Garrick
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Author : David Garrick
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1980
The Plays Of David Garrick written by David Garrick and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Drama categories.
David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all masterpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage historian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Cymon. A Dramatic Romance, 1767; Linco's Travels. An Interlude, 1767; A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal, 1767; The Jubilee, 1769; The Institution of the Garter; or, Arthur's Roundtable Restored, 1771; The Irish Widow, 1772; A Christmas Tale. A New Dramatic Entertainment, 1773; The Meeting of the Company; or, Bayes's Art of Acting, 1774; Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs, 1775; May-Day; or, The Little Gipsy, 1775; and The Theatrical Candidates, 1775.
History Of The English Stage Garrick And His Contemporaries
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Author : David Garrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
History Of The English Stage Garrick And His Contemporaries written by David Garrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
Illustrated with letters, manuscripts, engravings...
The Stage And The Page
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Author : George Winchester Stone
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-08-19
The Stage And The Page written by George Winchester Stone and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Garrick Claims The Stage
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Author : Leigh Woods
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1984-06-19
Garrick Claims The Stage written by Leigh Woods and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-06-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discusses the importance of salt and describes the mining and processing rock salt which is used in industry and agriculture and the manufacture of table salt which originates in brine pumped from the ground.
Memoirs Of The Life Of David Garrick Esq
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Author : Thomas Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1784
Memoirs Of The Life Of David Garrick Esq written by Thomas Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1784 with Actors categories.