George Pierce Baker and the American Theatre / / Wisner Payne Kinne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kinne, Wisner Payne,
• MitwirkendeR: Mason Brown, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1954
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.) :; Illustrated
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; INTRODUCTION --; PROLOGUE --; I. ANTECEDENTS — TOY THEATRE — THE SPIRIT OF 1876 --; II. PROVIDENCE AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE --; III. STANDARDS IN READING, ELOCUTION, AND JOURNALISM --; IV. DRAMA AND REALITY --; V. HARVARD FRESHMAN AND THE BOSTON STAGE --; VI. ENTER WENDELL AND IRVING --; VII. HARVARD AND THE THEATRE --; VIII. SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT— HARVARD MONTHLY --; IX. FARQUHAR, MEREDITH, AND A LITERARY PHILOSOPHY --; X. GRADUATION — FRUSTRATION AND WANDERJAHR — ENTER CLYDE FITCH --; XI. HARVARD INSTRUCTOR --; XII. ENGLISH 14 --; XIII. WENDELL POINTS THE WAY --; XIV. ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGH T — ENTER WINTHROP AMES --; XV. A DRAMATIC LIBRARY FOR AMERICA --; XVI. ELIZABETHAN EXPERIMENT --; XVII. PUBLIC LECTURES — “IS NOT THIS THE BEGINNING OF AN EPOCH?” --; XVIII. HARVARD THEATRE COLLECTION --; XIX. EDUCATING THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE --; XX. A DRAMATIC WORKSHOP A RADCLIFFE --; XXI. COMEDY AND THE COMING AMERICAN DRAMA --; XXII. “HE MIND OF THE UNDERGRADUATE” AND PLAYWRITING --; XXIII. ENGLISH 47 --; XXIV. IDEAS FOR A NEW THEATRE --; XXV. SHAKESPEARE’S SUPREMELY PLASTIC STAGE --; XXVI. “AMATEUR DE TOUT CE QUI TOUCHE AU THÉÂTRE” --; XXVII. THE NEW THEATRE AND HOPES FOR A HARVARD THEATRE --; XXVIII. IDEAS FOR A CIVIC THEATRE --; XXIX. PAGEANTS AND THEATRES FOR AMERICA --; XXX. PRIZE PLAYS --; XXXI. “THE THEATRE OF BEAUTY” --; XXXII. FEMININE INFLUENCE --; XXXIII. ENGLISH AND IRISH EXPERIMENT --; XXXIV. GORDON CRAIG — REINHARDT — PLANS FOR A HARVARD THEATRE --; XXXV. “THE NEW MOVEMENT” AND THE WORKSHOP --; XXXVI. “PROPOSED DRAMATIC EXHIBIT” --; XXXVII. BEAUTY VS. BROADWAY — ENTER EUGENE O’NEILL --; XXXVIII. WAR AND TRANSITION --; XXXIX. SEARCH FOR AMERICAN DRAMATIC MATERIALS — ENTER PHILIP BARRY --; XL. WORKSHOP CRISIS --; XLI. PLYMOUTH PAGEANT --; XLII. ENTER TOM WOLFE --; XLIII. “YALE : 47; HARVARD” --; XLIV. CONTINUITY IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY THEATER --; XLV. SEARCH FOR ANOTHER O’NEILL --; XLVI. THE UNIVERSITY AND A THEATRE FOR AMERICANS --; EPILOGUE --; APPENDICES AND NOTES --; APPENDIX I. A LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE PIERCE BAKER --; APPENDIX II. PUBLISHED PLAYS, WRITTEN BY G.P.B.’S STUDENTS AT HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE --; APPENDIX III. PUBLISHED PLAYS, WRITTEN BY G.P.B.’S STUDENTS AT YALE --; APPENDIX IV. YALE PRODUCTIONS PERSONALLY DIRECTED BY G.P.B. --; APPENDIX V. THE HARVARD PRIZE PLAYS --; APPENDIX VI. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS NOT CITED IN “NOTES” --; Notes --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674493902; 9783110353464; 9783110353488; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674493902
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wisner Payne Kinne.