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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"history of theatre"”.
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A History of Theatre Sound Effects Devices to 1927
… in number and sophistication throughout all theatre periods; devices to produce them became more complicated which posed a need for greater control through central operation. This study traces the practices and developments in mechanical sound effects devices used in American and European …
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Theatre for Young America: A History
In the spring of 1974, a family of actors has recently landed in Kansas City, Missouri. Father, Gene Mackey, is working for one of the areas four professional dinner theatres and has been authorized by his employer to mount a children’s play in response to Mackey’s research which reveals widespread …
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Le thème de la satire dans le théâtre Malawien
Malawian theatre, like most theatre in the southern region of Africa, is composed of two distinct forms; oral traditional theatre mostly comprising of masks, music and dance, as well as popular theatre which seeks to follow the definition of modern Western theatre. This thesis seeks to show how, of …
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Baccio del Bianco at the Court of Spain: Early Modern Scenic Design in Context
<p>This dissertation examines the life and work of seventeenth-century artist and architect, Baccio del Bianco, to imagine alternative research strategies for histories of theatre. Traditional scholarship of theatre design is rooted in art historical practices, which has limited the consideration …
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The battle of the stages : the conflict between the theatre and the institutions of government and religion in England 1660-1890
Between 1660 and 1880 a number of Royal Patents were granted and Acts of ParI iament passed whose purpose and effect, it has generally been acknowledged, was to restrict the spread and availability of English theatre, in particular that within the two cities of the metropolis, and to limit its …