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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From C19 habit of using the term lion for any celebrity or person of high social standing , as in ' a social lion ' . literary Ultimately from L. littera , ' a letter ' , literary is found as ' pertaining to the letters of the alphabet ...
From C19 habit of using the term lion for any celebrity or person of high social standing , as in ' a social lion ' . literary Ultimately from L. littera , ' a letter ' , literary is found as ' pertaining to the letters of the alphabet ...
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malcontent – manager , management 149 a > malcontent A stock character of Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy : a discontented person ; one inclined to rebellion . The malcontent was usually an educated man with no visible means of ...
malcontent – manager , management 149 a > malcontent A stock character of Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy : a discontented person ; one inclined to rebellion . The malcontent was usually an educated man with no visible means of ...
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194 persona – pick up > > in the classical period , it was further extended to mean ' an individual human being ' , hence person . It is thus one of the earliest examples and perhaps the most significant of a theatrical term being ...
194 persona – pick up > > in the classical period , it was further extended to mean ' an individual human being ' , hence person . It is thus one of the earliest examples and perhaps the most significant of a theatrical term being ...
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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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