Mask and Scene: Introduction to a World View of Theatre - Hardcover

Diana Devlin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333399242 ISBN 13: 9780333399248

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Synopsis

"Mask and Scene" is an introduction to theatre history for students approaching the subject for the first time. Each theatrical convention is examined in an attempt to reveal how the illusion of theatre has been created by occasion, stage, space, mask and costume, speech, play movement and gesture, scenery and music. Examples range from lavish spectacles to the simplest presentations and text and illustrations combine to introduce the possibilites of theatre. Diana Devlin has also written "A Speaking Part, Lewis Casson and the Theatre of His Time" and has recently been administrator of the International Shakespear Globe Centre, a project to reconstruct Shakespeare's theatre near its original site.

About this title

About the Author

Diana Devlin has taught and directed theatre extensively in Britain and in the U.S. Her publications include a biography of her grandfather, Lewis Casson. She has been an administrator of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, a project to reconstruct Shakespeare's theate near its original site. William B. Stern (M.L.S., Columbia) has done extensive theatrical research, has a major personal collection of material dealing with theatre, and attends as many performances as possible in New York, London, and at regional U.S. theatres.

Review

...direct and informative, free of the scholarly minutiae too often crowding similar writings. A fresh overview of theater history around the world...will also comfortably inform the casually interested reader. (Choice)

...a useful introduction... (Classic Images)

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333399242
• ISBN 13: 9780333399248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227