Plays Acting and Music

About this eBook

Author

Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945

Title

Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Leah Moser and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Actors

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13928

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13928

Release Date

November 2, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.[i] PLAYS — ACTING AND MUSIC
2. 2.A BOOK OF THEORY — BY — ARTHUR SYMONS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION — PLAYS AND ACTING — DRAMA — MUSIC
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.AN APOLOGY FOR PUPPETS
7. 7.PLAYS AND ACTING
8. 8.NIETZSCHE ON TRAGEDY
9. 9.SARAH BERNHARDT
10. 10.COQUELIN AND MOLIÈRE: SOME ASPECTS
11. 11.RÉJANE
12. 12.YVETTE GUILBERT — I — II
13. 13.SIR HENRY IRVING
14. 14.DUSE IN SOME OF HER PARTS — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
15. 15.ANNOTATIONS BY THE WAY — I. "PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE" — II. "EVERYMAN" — III. "FAUST" AT THE LYCEUM — IV. THE JAPANESE PLAYERS — V. THE PARIS MUSIC-HALL
16. 16.M. CAPUS IN ENGLAND
17. 17.A DOUBLE ENIGMA
18. 18.DRAMA
19. 19.PROFESSIONAL AND UNPROFESSIONAL
20. 20.TOLSTOI AND OTHERS
21. 21.SOME PROBLEM PLAYS — I. "THE MARRYING OF ANN LEETE" — II. "THE LADY FROM THE SEA" — III. "THE NEW IDOL" — IV. "MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION"
22. 22."MONNA, VANNA"
23. 23.THE QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP.
24. 24.A PLAY AND THE PUBLIC
25. 25.THE TEST OF THE ACTOR
26. 26.THE PRICE OF REALISM
27. 27.ON CROSSING STAGE TO RIGHT
28. 28.THE SPEAKING OF VERSE
29. 29.GREAT ACTING IN ENGLISH
30. 30.A THEORY OF THE STAGE
31. 31.THE SICILIAN ACTORS — I — II
32. 32.MUSIC
33. 33.ON WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
34. 34.TECHNIQUE AND THE ARTIST
35. 35.PACHMANN AND THE PIANO — I — II — III
36. 36.PADEREWSKI
37. 37.A REFLECTION AT A DOLMETSCH CONCERT
38. 38.THE DRAMATISATION OF SONG
39. 39.THE MEININGEN ORCHESTRA
40. 40.MOZART IN THE MIRABELL-GARTEN
41. 41.NOTES ON WAGNER AT BAYREUTH — I. BAYREUTH AND MUNICH — II. THE LESSON OF PARSIFAL — III. THE ART OF WAGNER
42. 42.CONCLUSION
43. 43.A PARADOX ON ART — BY THE SAME WRITER

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