A Book About the Theater

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About This Book

A series of essays by a seasoned student of dramatic literature surveys the theater’s many dimensions, from the commercial and technical limits of the stage to the historical development of scene‑painting, sets, and opera. It examines performance arts—dance, pantomime, acrobatics, magic, puppetry, shadow‑plays—and popular entertainments such as variety shows and minstrel performance, while discussing play structure, adaptation, collaboration, women dramatists, and the practice of criticism. Historical examples, practical observations, and aesthetic argument are woven together to illuminate the crafts and institutions that shape theatrical production.

Transcriber's Notes:

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.

Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted below:

Throughout the book, "avalanch" was replaced with "avalanche".

On page 56, the single quotation mark was removed from the block-quoted paragraph.

On page 116, "denial of of" was replaced with "denial of".

On page 230, "Amercan" was replaced with "American".

On page 296, "air-cirlces" was replaced with "air-circles".