TheatreTheatre has provided many words and meanings which we use - ignorant of their origins - in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millennia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross referenced in ways which will fascinate theatregoers, help serious theatre students and encourage those actively engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles. |
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None of these terms appears theatrically until IC16 , although when they do appear it is in a rush , which is not entirely surprising given the sudden growth of public performance at that time . It is significant that the terms seem to ...
None of these terms appears theatrically until IC16 , although when they do appear it is in a rush , which is not entirely surprising given the sudden growth of public performance at that time . It is significant that the terms seem to ...
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It first appears in its French form . Throughout the 16th century , its rare occurrences retain ambiguity : the precise definition is unsettled though it does at this stage appear to denote a literary form , the single play : ' Such ...
It first appears in its French form . Throughout the 16th century , its rare occurrences retain ambiguity : the precise definition is unsettled though it does at this stage appear to denote a literary form , the single play : ' Such ...
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The modern notion of ventriloquy as an entertainment in which a performer speaks without moving his lips and ' throws his voice so that it appears to be coming from a dummy , appears to date from the 1C18 .
The modern notion of ventriloquy as an entertainment in which a performer speaks without moving his lips and ' throws his voice so that it appears to be coming from a dummy , appears to date from the 1C18 .
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Bibliografické údaje
| Název | Theatre Book of words |
| Autor | Martin Harrison |
| Vydavatel | Carcanet, 1993 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Michiganská univerzita |
| Digitalizováno | 27. únor 2008 |
| ISBN | 1857540409, 9781857540406 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 316 |
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