In search of theater.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Knopf, 1953.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 411 p. illus. 25 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN2189 .B4
Contents:
pt. 1. The Broadway intelligentsia -- Boredom in New York -- Gentility in London -- God's plenty in Paris -- Germany: splendeurs et misères -- A first glimpse of Italy -- Better than Europe? -- South of Eboli -- Schloss Leopoldskron -- pt. 2. Doing Shakespeare wrong -- Strindberg, the one and the many -- The stagecraft of Brecht -- Monsieur Verdoux and theater -- Martha Graham's journey -- The purism of Etienne Decroux -- Two evenings chez Barrault -- The poet in Dublin -- Trying to like O'Neill -- pt. 3. Bernard Shaw dead -- Copeau and the chimera -- The china in the bull shop -- pt. 4. Son of Pulcinella -- Pirandello's joy and torment -- Yeats's plays -- Heroic wantonness -- Craftsmanship in Uncle Vanya -- Ibsen, pro and con -- pt. 5. More than a play? -- An actor as thinker -- 1900-1950.
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pt. 1. The Broadway intelligentsia -- Boredom in New York -- Gentility in London -- God's plenty in Paris -- Germany: splendeurs et misères -- A first glimpse of Italy -- Better than Europe? -- South of Eboli -- Schloss Leopoldskron -- pt. 2. Doing Shakespeare wrong -- Strindberg, the one and the many -- The stagecraft of Brecht -- Monsieur Verdoux and theater -- Martha Graham's journey -- The purism of Etienne Decroux -- Two evenings chez Barrault -- The poet in Dublin -- Trying to like O'Neill -- pt. 3. Bernard Shaw dead -- Copeau and the chimera -- The china in the bull shop -- pt. 4. Son of Pulcinella -- Pirandello's joy and torment -- Yeats's plays -- Heroic wantonness -- Craftsmanship in Uncle Vanya -- Ibsen, pro and con -- pt. 5. More than a play? -- An actor as thinker -- 1900-1950.