{"product_id":"2940013157729","title":"A Book About The Theater","description":"I. THE SHOW BUSINESS                                         1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE STAGE                             17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. A MORAL FROM A TOY THEATER                               37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. WHY FIVE ACTS?                                           55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. DRAMATIC COLLABORATION                                   77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. THE DRAMATIZATION OF NOVELS AND THE NOVELIZATION\u003cbr\u003e            OF PLAYS                                              93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. WOMEN DRAMATISTS                                         111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. THE EVOLUTION OF SCENE-PAINTING                          127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. THE BOOK OF THE OPERA                                    153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. THE POETRY OF THE DANCE                                  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI. THE PRINCIPLES OF PANTOMIME                              185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XII. THE IDEAL OF THE ACROBAT                                 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF NEGRO-MINSTRELSY                 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIV. THE UTILITY OF THE VARIETY-SHOW                          235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XV. THE METHOD OF MODERN MAGIC                               251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XVI. THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF PUNCH AND JUDY                 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVII. THE PUPPET-PLAY, PAST AND PRESENT                        287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVIII. SHADOW-PANTOMIME, WITH ALL THE MODERN\u003cbr\u003e            IMPROVEMENTS                                         303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIX. THE PROBLEM OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM                        319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                             ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Le ballet de la reine                             _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                         FACING PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Upper half of Plate No. 1, the 'Miller and His Men'           40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A group of the principal characters from Pollock's juvenile\u003cbr\u003e        drama, the 'Miller and His Men'                           42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Explosion of the mill. A back drop in the\u003cbr\u003e        'Miller and His Men'                                      46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Plate No. 7, the 'Miller and His Men'                         48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Lower half of Plate No. 5, the 'Miller and His Men'           52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Roman Theater at Orange                                  134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The multiple set of the French medieval stage                134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The set of the Italian comedy of masks                       134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    An outdoor entertainment in the gardens of the Pitti Palace\u003cbr\u003e        in Florence in the early sixteenth century               136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The set for the opera of 'Persée' (as performed at the Opéra\u003cbr\u003e        in Paris in the seventeenth century)                     140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A prison (designed by Bibiena in Italy in the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003e        century)                                                 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The screen scene of the 'School for Scandal' at Drury Lane\u003cbr\u003e        in 1778                                                  144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A landscape set                                              146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A set for the opera of 'Robert le Diable'                    146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The set of the last act of the 'Garden of Allah'             148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A set for 'Medea'                                            148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The set of 'OEdipe-Roi' (at the Théâtre Français)            150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The set of the 'Return of Peter Grimm'                       150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Scenes from Punch and Judy                                   274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Scenes from Punch and Judy (continued)                       276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Roman puppets. Greek and Roman puppets. Puppet of Java       290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A Sicilian marionette show                                   292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A Belgian puppet. A Chinese puppet theater. Puppet figure\u003cbr\u003e        representing the younger Coquelin                        294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Puppets in Burma                                             296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The puppet play of Master Peter (Italian)                    296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A Neapolitan Punchinella                                     300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The broken bridge. Plan showing the construction of a\u003cbr\u003e        shadow-picture theater. A Hungarian dancer\u003cbr\u003e        (a shadow picture)                                       308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Shadow Pictures. The return from the Bois de Boulogne. The\u003cbr\u003e        ballet. A regiment of French soldiers                    310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Shadow Picture. The Sphinx I: Pharaoh passing in triumph     312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Shadow Picture. The Sphinx II: Moses leading his people out\u003cbr\u003e        of Egypt                                                 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Shadow Picture. The Sphinx III: Roman warriors in Egypt      316","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147503911152,"sku":"2940013157729","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013157729_p0.jpg?v=1763577802","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013157729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}