Opis: Box Office (Classic Reprint) - Anderson John

Excerpt from Box Office

Although drama may outlast all theatres and survive imperishably apart from its physical limits, it happens now, as it has always happened, to be conditioned by the place in which it lives. It takes on the tone and color of its surroundings and reflects them as the theatre itself, in its aspects of social institution, ultimately adjusts itself to the temper of the people who use it.

Thus there are plainly evident national, not to say perhaps racial, clues to the state of the theatre in any place. It takes on slightly varying values in different countries, occupies a subtly different position in their lives as compared to its position in the lives of, let us say, people of equal intelligence and interest in another country. There is a risk of glibness in offering superficial evidence but there are real, though difficult, distinctions to be found by sitting in and feeling audiences in England and in America, or in Italy, France and Germany. Perhaps it is older tradition, more spacious ways of living, or the attitude of genial frankness toward simple playthings with which the Italians seem able to take their theatre, not their drama, as a social institution and part of their lives that accounts for their support of the theatre. Perhaps these are deceptive clues. I am not sure.

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Szczegóły: Box Office (Classic Reprint) - Anderson John

Nazwa: Box Office (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Anderson John
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330300909
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 126
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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