商品簡介
Beard (theatre history, Baylor U.) provides articles from Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine, which he founded in 1916 in Detroit to foster and support a renaissance in theater in America, particularly through modernism and the New Stagecraft. She offers a history of the magazine and biographical information about Cheney, describes his philosophy of modernist theater, and presents articles showing the progressive attitudes of the magazine from 1916 to 1921, with introductory essays and notes on the critical and historical context. Articles address complaints Cheney and other modernists had against American theater, their optimism about the little theater movement, international artists and non-European forms, the support for New Stagecraft aesthetics and American designers, and his interest in nurturing new American plays and playwrights. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
DeAnna M. Toten Beard is associate professor and head of graduate studies in the Department of Theatre Arts at Baylor University.
