On the Art of the Theatre

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On the Art of the Theatre

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SECOND DIALOGUE A PLAYGOER AND A STAGE DIRECTOR SPEAK. Playgoer I Am glad to see you again after so long an absence. Where have you been? Stage-director Abroad. Playgoer What have you been doing all this time? Stage-director Hunting. Playgoer Have you turned sportsman, then? Stage-director I have; it keeps one in good health. It exercises all the muscles. I shall do better work when I recommence. Playgoer Tell me about it all, where you have been hunting and what you have bagged. Stage-director I have bagged nothing, for the beast that has occupied me is not caught like a rabbit or a hare, and is far more wary than a fox. Besides, the sport is not in the kill; the sport lies in the difficulties which must be surmounted to get at the beast, and there is no danger at all after you have found him; I have been hunting the monster of a Fable. Playgoer Which one? The Chimaera, the Hydra or the Hippogriff? Stage-director All of them in one. They are the composite parts of an absurd monster called The Theatrical,1 and I have tracked this terrible creature into its thousand-and-one caverns and conquered him. Playgoer You have destroyed him? Stage-director Yes--I have made friends with him. Playgoer Was there any need for you to have gone abroad to do this simple piece of by-play? Stage-director Certainly, for it was only abroad that I found out the poor thing's weak spots. I was really a little frightened at his roar in England, and the reports of his cave and its collection of dry skulls were certainly most terrifying. But when I got abroad 1 See note, p. 291. I 1 began to hunt cautiously, and found him one day dancing, another day making imitations of me, and the third day he invited me into his cave. Naturally I accepted the invitation and...

Country	USA
Author	Edward Gordon Craig
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781230370835
ISBN	1230370838
Label	TheClassics.us
Manufacturer	TheClassics.us
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	66
PublicationDate	2013-09-12
Publisher	TheClassics.us
Studio	TheClassics.us
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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