How to See a Play.
Title:
How to See a Play.
Author:
Burton, Richard.
ISBN:
9781776512331
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I - The Play, a Form of Story Telling -- Chapter II - The Play, a Cultural Opportunity -- Chapter III - Up to Shakespeare -- Chapter IV - Growth to the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter V - The Modern School -- Chapter VI - The Play as Theme and Personal View -- Chapter VII - Method and Structure -- Chapter VIII - Development -- Chapter IX - Climax -- Chapter X - Ending the Play -- Chapter XI - The Social Significance of the Play -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
This book is aimed squarely at the theater-goer. It hopes to offer a concise general treatment upon the use of the theater, so that the person in the seat may get the most for his money; may choose his entertainment wisely, avoid that which is not worth while, and appreciate the values artistic and intellectual of what he is seeing and hearing.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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