Our Stage and Its Critics

About this eBook

Author

Spence, Edward Fordham, 1860-1932

Title

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Theater -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13408

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13408

Release Date

September 9, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OUR STAGE AND ITS CRITICS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CHAPTER I — THE DRAMATIC CRITIC — His Qualifications — His Knowledge of Fashionable Society — His Duty and Difficulties — His Stock Phrases — The Circumstances under which he Writes — His Fear of Libel Actions
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE DRAMATIC CRITIC — His Duty to be Tolerant — His Sympathies when Young — The Jaded Critic — His Unpaid Labours — His Letter Bag
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE DRAMATIC CRITIC — An Attack upon him — Why he is Disliked — His Honesty — His Abolition — The Threatened Theatrical Trust
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — PLAYS OF PARTICULAR TYPES — The Pseudo-Historical — The Horrible in Drama — The Immorality Play — Scripture Plays — Anecdotal Plays — The Supernatural
8. 8.CHAPTER V — PLAYS OF PARTICULAR TYPES — Unsentimental Drama — The Second-hand Drama — Plays with a Purpose — Drama and Social Reform
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — THE PHENOMENA OF THE STAGE — The Optics — Make-up — Gesture — Scenery at the French Plays — Stage Costumes — Colour — Stage Meals
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — THE MORALITY OF OUR DRAMA — Mr Harry Lauder on the Morals of our Drama — Double Entente — Moral Effect on Audience — An Advantage of French Dramatists
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — CASUAL NOTES ON ACTING — Mr H.B. Irving on his Art — Mr Bourchier and "Max" on English Acting — The Sicilian Players — Alleged Dearth of Great Actresses — Character Actresses — Stage Misfits — Stars
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — STAGE DANCING — The Skirts of the Drama — Isadora Duncan
13. 13.CHAPTER X — THINGS IN THE THEATRE — A Defence of the Matinée Hat — A Justification of certain Deadheads — Theatrical Advertisements — Music
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — IN THE PLAYHOUSE — Laughter — Smoking in the Auditorium — Conduct of the Audience — Concerning the Pit — Why do we go to the Theatre?
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — MISCELLANEOUS — Signor Borsa on the English Theatres — "G.B.S." and the Amateurs — Cant about Shakespeare — Yvette Guilbert on Dramatists
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — MISCELLANEOUS — Finance in Plays — Some Unsuccessful Dramatists — The Ending of the Play — Preposterous Stage Types — The Professions of the Dramatis Personae

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