What Is Wrong With The Stage? : Some Notes on the English Theatre from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Published by George Allen, London, 1920

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8vo, pp. 38. Original stiff paper boards in blue dustwrapper, white title label to front panel. Contents browned, but a very good copy in a darkened dustwrapper with spine largely rubbed away and title label browned. First edition of this treatise by the founder (in 1895) and Director of the Elizabethan Stage Society. Born before his time William Poel [1852-1934] was a proponent of minimal staging, of 'empty space' productions which focused on the poetry of the text. This put him at odds with near contemporaries such as Henry Irving, whose spectacularly lavish productions, including many plays by Shakespeare, packed out the Lyceum Theatre in London from the 1870s until his death in 1905.

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Title
What Is Wrong With The Stage? : Some Notes on the English Theatre from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author
POEL, William
Publisher
George Allen, London
Publication year
1920
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