The whole art of the stage /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Source materials in the field of theatre ;
no. 50, Reel 12. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle: Containing not only the rules of the drammatick art, but many curious observations about it, which may be of great use to the authors, actors, and spectators of plays; together with much critical learning about the stage and plays of the ancients. "The translator has made some alterations in the author's method & order of his chapters, for the author having promiscuosly placed much of the crabbed antiquity learning among the other observations upon the drammatick art; and that being likely to disqust some readers the translator has put it all in one Book at the latter end...."--Translator's preface. Of the catastrophe or issue of the drammatick poem--Book III: Of the actors or persons to be brought upon the stage, and what the poet is to observe about them--Of discourses in general--Of narrations--Of deliberations--Of didactick discourses or instructions--Of pathetick discourses, or of the passions and motions of the mind--Of the figures--Of monologues, or discourses made by a single person--Of a partes, or discourses made to onesself in the presence of others--Of the acts--Of the intervals of the acts--Of the scenes--Of spectacles, machines, and decorations of the stage--Book IV: Of the quantitative parts of the drammatick poem, and particularly of the Prologue--Of episodes according to the doctrine of Aristotle--Of the choruses of the Ancients--Of the ancient actors, or first reciters of episodes against the opinon of some modern writers--Of tragicomedy--An analysis, or examen of the first tragedy of Sophocles, entituled Ajax, upon the rules deliver'd for the practice of the stage--A project for re-establishing the French theatre. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 6 unnumbered pages, 135, 176 pages ; 23 cm. |