Studies in Stagecraft - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Clayton Hamilton

Language: English

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works Non-fiction Performing Arts

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25 Chapter(s)

1. Preface
2. The New Art of Making Plays
3. The Pictorial Stage
4. The Decorative Drama
5. The Drama of Illusion
6. The Modern Art of Stage-Direction
7. A Plea for a New Type of Play
8. The Period of Pragmatism
9. The Undramatic Drama
10. The Value of Stage Conventions
11. The Supernatural Drama
12. The Irish National Theatre
13. The Personality of the Playwright
14. Themes and Stories on the Stage
15. Plausibility in Plays
16. Infirmity of Purpose
17. Where to Begin a Play
18. Continuity of Structure
19. Rhythm and Tempo
20. The Plays of Yesteryear
21. A New Defense of Melodrama
22. The Art of the Moving Picture Play
23. The One-Act Play in America
24. Organizing an Audience
25. The Function of Dramatic Criticism

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A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in general, this volume focuses more specifically on the contemporary drama of the era in which it was written. - Summary by Andrew Gaunce

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