The living stage : a history of the world theater

The living stage : a history of the world theater /

Examines the personalities and events which shaped the development of acting and the theater from ancient Egypt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Macgowan, Kenneth, 1888-1963 (Author), Melnitz, William W. (Author)
Other Authors: With, Gerda (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1955]
Subjects:
Theater > History.
24.11 history of drama.
Theater.
Teatro (Critica)
History.
History (form)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Theater begins with primitive man
  • The great Greeks and the much lesser Latins
  • Theater reborn before medieval altars
  • The Renaissance theater in Italy
  • Spain's golden age
  • The theater that Elizabeth I sustained
  • France in and out of the Renaissance
  • The Restoration and the eighteenth century in England
  • 1500 to 1800 in Teutonic lands
  • The eighteenth century in France and America
  • The oriental theater
  • The nineteenth century, a time of change in Europe
  • The American theater, 1800 to 1900
  • Twentieth-century realism
  • The theater of today and tomorrow.

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