The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama (Penguin Literary Criticism)

by Eric Bentley
The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama (Penguin Literary Criticism)  
published March 15th 1990 by Penguin (Non-Classics)
binding Paperback
isbn 0140171789   (isbn13: 9780140171785)
pages 512
description Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.
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09-30-07



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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
02/09/08

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Read in June, 1976
Hhmm.. Welp, my copy is a hardback from 1972 - but this edition is close enuf. This has writings by Antonin Artaud, Bertold Brecht, & E. Gordon Craig - amongst many others - but these 3 are probably enuf to get across the idea of why I'm giving it a high rating. Craig, if I remember correctly, proposed a theater of all sets, lighting & motion - W/O actors. Now, I skimming thru his section of this bk & I see no reference to that & I don't know if Craig actually ever realized th...more
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