A Book About the Theater

A Book About the Theater
Brander Matthews, american writer and educator (1852-1929)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- THE SHOW BUSINESS
-04- THE LIMITATIONS OF THE STAGE
-05- A MORAL FROM A TOY THEATER
-06- WHY FIVE ACTS
-07- DRAMATIC COLLABORATION
-08- THE DRAMATIZATION OF NOVELS AND THE NOVELIZATION OF PLAYS
-09- WOMEN DRAMATISTS
-10- THE EVOLUTION OF SCENE-PAINTING
-11- THE BOOK OF THE OPERA
-12- THE POETRY OF THE DANCE
-13- THE PRINCIPLES OF PANTOMIME
-14- THE IDEAL OF THE ACROBAT
-15- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF NEGRO-MINSTRELSY
-16- THE UTILITY OF THE VARIETY SHOW
-17- THE METHOD OF MODERN MAGIC
-18- THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF PUNCH AND JUDY
-19- THE PUPPET PLAY, PAST AND PRESENT
-20- SHADOW PANTOMIME WITH ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
-21- THE PROBLEM OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM