The context and craft of drama : critical essays on the nature of drama and theatre / Edited by Robert W. Corrigan and James L. Rosenberg.

Author: Corrigan, Robert W. (Robert Willoughby), ed. 1927-1993.

Imprint:San Francisco : Chandler Pub. Co., 1964.

Descriptionx, 466 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:The dramatic illusion / Susanne Langer. - The conditions of dramatic art / Henri Ghéon. - How drama is born within us / Jean-Louis Barrault. - Secrets / Jean Vilar. - The language of drama / Conor A. Farrington. - Why verse? / Christopher Fry. - Character change and the drama / Harold Rosenberg. - Manipulating the characters / J.L. Styan. - The nature of dramatic illusion / Charles Morgan. - The plays of Chekhov / Robert W. Corrigan. - Melodrama / James L. Rosenberg. - The varieties of dramatic criticism / Ronald S. Crane. - Specific forms of drama / Northrop Frye.

Note:Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder. - Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Duerrenmatt. - Experience of the theatre / Eugène Ionesco. - Design for acting / Morris Carnovsky. - The cannibal theatre / Peter Schaffer. - What is an actor? / Frederik Schyberg. - Mistaken notions / Harold Clurman. - The art of directing / Stark Young. - Murder of the director / Jean Vilar. - To a young stage designer / Robert Edmond Jones. - Pro-per proscenium / Sean O'Casey. - Review of Hamlet, 1897 / George Bernard Shaw. - Review of Hamlet, 1922 / Stark Young. - Review of Hamlet, 1958 / Kenneth Tynan. - Duerrenmatt's The visit of the old lady / Melvin Askew. - Mr. Duerrenmatt buys new shoes / Gordon Rogoff.

Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes.

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