2006

Warriors

Introduction Bonaparte’s Blessed Fool [Marcellin Marbot] Harry and Juana [Sir Harry Smith, Juana Smith] Professor of Arms [Joshua Chamberlain, American Civil War] The Lazy Engineer [Lieutenant John Chard, Battle of Rorke’s Drift] Colonel Fred [Colonel Frederick Burnaby] Gentleman-of-War [Kapitän zur See Karl von Müller] Most Private Soldier [Frederic Manning, Australian soldier of WWI and author …

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Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi

How to use this book Introduction The Plays The False Turk – in Twelve Minutes: One-act curtain raisers, seventeenth-century style Cast and production requirements Introduction Scenario Text Home from the Wars: Early Commedia dell’Arte sketch, in the style of Angelo Beolco Cast and production requirements Introduction Scenario Text Pantalone Goes A-Wooing: One-act play based on …

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Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

Part I Wagner and the theatre of the early nineteenth century The art of the future – by royal command Staging the Ring at Bayreuth Parsifal and beyond Part II The inheritors: Cosima and Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller Adolphe Appia: the opened eye of the score Wagner in Russia, 1890-1940 Travail and …

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