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