Synopsis
This book examines the most important theatrical conventions and explains how they have been used. Through a history of world theatre and its conventions_occasion, stage space, mask and costume, speech, movement and gesture, the play, scenery, and music_Diana Devlin reveals how the illusion of theatre has been created in past ages and passed on to modern times. With a new section, 'Further Study,' by William B. Stern.
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Diana Devlin has taught and directed theatre extensively in Britain and in the U.S. Her publications include a biography of her grandfather, Lewis Casson. She has been an administrator of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, a project to reconstruct Shakespeare's theate near its original site. William B. Stern (M.L.S., Columbia) has done extensive theatrical research, has a major personal collection of material dealing with theatre, and attends as many performances as possible in New York, London, and at regional U.S. theatres.
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Mask and Scene: An Introduction to a World View of Theatre
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Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1989, 1991
ISBN 10: 0810822342
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