Simple Stage Its Origins in the Modern American Theater

Name: Simple Stage Its Origins in the Modern American Theater
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ISBN: 9780313257155

ISBN-10: 0313257159

ISBN-13: 9780313257155

Edition: 1992

Authors: Arthur Feinsod

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This book is about leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simple stage. Their work initially raised controversy, being applauded as visionary and poetic by some, drab and monotonous by others. And yet today the simplified stage is a well-established part of American theater practice. Feinsod begins his examination of these leading theater artists with a look at the precedents and influences of the modern simple stage. Drawing from diverse historic and cultural traditions, the first American simplifiers defied customs of elaborate spectacle and detailed naturalism in favor of self-imposed aesthetic…

Book details

List price: $126.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Precedents and Influences



The Greek and Elizabethan Revivals



New Simple Stages from Europe



The Chinese and Japanese Precedent



Leaders of the New Simple Stage



Maurice Browne, Raymond Jonson, and the Chicago Little Theatre



Browne's Legacy: Contributions From Other Little Theaters



Robert Edmond Jones and Arthur Hopkins



Lee Simonson, Theodore Komisarjevsky, and The Tidings Brought to Mary



Thornton Wilder and the Playwright's Initiative


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index