The TheaterGeorge H. Doran Company, 1927 - 168 |
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Strona vii - of all human ambitions an open mind, eagerly expectant of new discoveries and ready to remould conviction in the light of added knowledge and dispelled ignorances and misapprehensions, is the noblest, the rarest and the most difficult to achieve.
Strona 42 - I believe if a Poet should steal a Dialogue of any Length from the Extempore Discourse of the two Wittiest Men upon Earth, he would find the Scene but coldly receiv'd by the Town.
Strona 68 - ... formula can anything be decided as to the piece's being a play, though meanwhile perhaps the public goes on crowding to see it. It fares well, it draws crowds, but it is not a play. Something is clearly wrong. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Which means that it is a pudding so far as it [67] goes down pleasantly and nourishes us.
Strona 68 - It is a play in so far as the idea, the content, of it is expressed in theatre terms — the space relationships, the time elements, the oral values, the personal medium of the actors, and so on — as distinguished from the terms of literature.
Strona 153 - O abbondante grazia , ond' io presunsi Ficcar lo viso per la luce eterna Tanto , che la veduta vi consunsi ! Nel suo profondo vidi, che s...
Strona 150 - Model calls for a circular stage, 135 feet in width and 165 feet on its longitudinal axis, and composed entirely of steps. From a central pit the slope rises on the far side to fifty feet; on the near side the slope ends in a ledge, one-fourth as high, which descends toward the audience in a series of terraces until it reaches the level of the pit bottom ; and there a valley runs half-way round the circle, separated from the audience by a wall seven feet high. People may pass inside this wall or...
Strona 26 - Jews of the first century are dressed as Venetians of the sixteenth? Or is the sculpture of the Egyptians inferior because it is not anatomical? The answer is that in each case, the painter, actor, and sculptor, according to his genius and his special art, made what use he chose, and at his own peril, of his material. The history of any art is a history of man's states of mind and spirit, not of the objective world around him. To be ignorant of that is to be ignorant of the theatre as an art, and...
Strona 153 - ... have vanished and we have a sweep of silver stairs with vast shadows of wings enclosing them on either side ; and in the center beyond and high up, a radiance, with two forms dimly seen in it — O abbondante grazia, ond'io...
Strona 15 - Art THE golden day in the theater would dawn when the dramatist himself directed his play, with actors capable of expressing entirely the meaning that he intends and a designer whose settings and costumes bring the whole event to its final perfection. This blest occasion would exhibit the creator in the art of the theater working straight, using one medium directly, as any other artist does, as the painter does, the architect, the musician. But such a day never dawns; and the process by which a piece...
Strona 141 - ... the play. More often than not this translation does not happen; for lack of all those familiar stage tricks of reproduction, duplication of objects, sounds and places that excite a childish delight by being so exactly contrived, are low forms of theatre; they are not part of the dramatic movement; they stick out of themselves and thus intrude on the right dramatic content or idea. To such unrelated reproduction, or photography, as this last we may object, since it is not art at all. To realistic...