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1 online resource (xviii, 531 pages) |
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Routledge theatre classics |
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Routledge theatre classics.
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pt. I. Acting in the American tradition -- 1. Acting and the New Stagecraft / Walter Prichard Eaton -- 2. place of the actor in "the new movement" / Claude King -- 3. Billets doux / Stark Young -- 4. Paul Muni: a profile and a self-portrait / Morton Eustis -- 5. Margaret Sullavan / John Van Druten -- 6. Comedienne from Radcliffe: Josephine Hull / William Lindsay Gresham -- 7. Laurette Taylor / Norris Houghton -- 8. Seven interviews in search of good acting / Aimee Scheff -- 9. That wonderful, deep silence / Shelley Winters -- 10. Shakespeare and the American actor / John Houseman -- 11. Geraldine Page: The irony of a legend / Joseph Carroll -- 12. Jason Robards, Jr. / John Keating -- 13. George C. Scott / Jack Balch -- 14. Maureen Stapleton / Gilbert Millstein -- 15. "Dear Diary ..." / Hume Cronyn -- 16. Julie Harris / John Keating -- pt. II. British legacy -- 17. crux in English acting / Alistair Cooke -- 18. Acting in my time / St John Ervine -- 19. artist's apprenticeship: Chapters from an autobiography / John Gielgud -- 20. Gielgud Macbeth / Ashley Dukes -- 21. John Gielgud: Actor / Alan Dent -- 22. actor as biographer: Wilfrid Lawson / Rosamond Gilder -- 23. Gertrude Lawrence / Theodore Strauss -- 24. Oliviers / Sewell Stokes -- 25. Sir Laurence and Larry / Alan Pryce-Jones -- 26. Shaw and the actor: Interviews with Rex Harrison and Siobhan McKenna -- 27. actor stakes his claim / Cedric Hardwicke -- 28. Albert Finney / Audrey Williamson -- pt. III. Foreign modes of performance -- 29. How Reinhardt works with his actors / Gertrud Eysoldt -- 30. Month of Duse (excerpts) / Kenneth Macgowan -- 31. Eleonora Duse: The last phase / F. Bruno Averardi -- 32. Giovanni Grasso / Stark Young -- 33. Mei Lan-Fang / Stark Young -- 34. Between curtains: The acting of the Abbey Theatre / Andrew J. Stewart -- 35. actor and the revolution / Pavel Markov -- 36. Child of silence / Jean-Louis Barrault -- 37. Louis Jouvet: The triumph of deceit / Monroe Stearns -- 38. Lotte Lenya / David Beams -- pt. IV. Stanislavsky and his followers -- 39. Stanislavsky to his players / Konstantin Stanislavsky -- 40. Perspective in character building / Konstantin Stanislavsky -- 41. Fundamentals of acting / Richard Boleslavsky -- 42. actor prepares: A comment on Stanislavsky's method / John Gielgud -- 43. actor prepares: Comments on Stanislavsky's method / Robert Sherwood, Harold Clurman and Norris Houghton -- 44. Group Theatre: In its tenth year -- a critical estimate / John Gassner -- 45. Actor's Lab / Dwight Thomas and Mary Guion Griepenkerl -- 46. Past performances / Lee Strasberg -- 47. actor must have three selves / Michael Chekhov -- 48. study of the Actors Studio / Maurice Zolotow -- 49. point of view and a place to practice it / Robert Lewis -- 50. Wanted: More stars, less "method" / Sherman Ewing -- pt. V. actor and his role -- 51. actor attacks his part: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / Morton Eustis -- 52. play in the making: The Lunts rehearse Amphitryon 38 / Morton Eustis -- 53. actor attacks his part: Nazimova / Morton Eustis -- 54. actor attacks his part: Katharine Cornell / Morton Eustis -- 55. actor attacks his part: Burgess Meredith / Morton Eustis -- 56. actor-dancer attacks his part: Fred Astaire / Morton Eustis -- 57. singing actress attacks her part: Lotte Lehmann / Morton Eustis -- 58. Great roles reborn: Bette Davis tells Ramon Romero how Regina, the Old Maid and Miss Moffat came to the screen / Ramon Romero -- pt. VI. Technical matters -- 59. voice in the theatre / Stark Young -- 60. Illusion in acting / Stark Young -- 61. lazy actor / John Shand -- 62. Type-casting: The eighth deadly sin / Edith J.R. Isaacs -- 63. moribund craft of acting / Cedric Hardwicke -- 64. Speak the speech, 1 pray you / John Gielgud -- 65. Notes on film acting / Hume Cronyn -- 66. actor as thinker / Eric Bentley |
| Summary |
During its fifty year run, Theatre Arts Magazine was a bustling forum for the foremost names in the performing arts, including Stanislavski, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, John Gielgud and Shelley Winters. Renowned theatre historian Laurence Senelick has plundered its stunning archives to assemble a stellar collection of articles on every aspect of acting and theatrical life |
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Articles published in Theatre arts, 1916-1950 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Acting
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acting.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Acting
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Schauspieler
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Theater
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Theatertheorie.
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Schauspielkunst.
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Skådespelarkonst.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Quelle.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Senelick, Laurence
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| ISBN |
9781134723751 |
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113472375X |
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1299869319 |
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9781299869318 |
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9781315881188 |
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1315881187 |
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