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

Table of Contents

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