The lenght and depth of acting / Edwin Duerr ; with a foreword by A. M. Nagler

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I—THE RISE AND FALL OF ACTING : 1—The Beginnings : The Instinct ; First Greek Professionals ; “Men As They Ought to Be” ; Comedians , Actors’ Contests ; Euripides ; The Comics Mature ; Actors’ Guilds , Greek Acting. 2—The Rejection: Plays in Rome ; A Trivial Craft ; Theatricality : Literary Interlopers ; Actors Take Charge , Tidbits of Theory ; Acting in India --II—THE RENEWAL OF ACTING: 3—Roughly a Thousand Years, 476–1450: The Instinct Survives ; In the Churches ; In the Towns ; In the Far East Again. 4 – One Hundred and Fifty Years, 1450–1600: In Clubs, Castles, Courts ; France ; England ; “Italy” ; Spain ; Public Theaters, 1550–1580 ; Acting as a Business, 1580–1600. 5 – The Italian Professionals: No Playwrights Wanted ; The Actor Is All, Alas! ; Slow, Significant Failure. 6 – Play Acting Accepted, 1600–1700: Actors Everywhere ; Professionals in France ; Set-back in England ; Kabuki ; Molière; La Comédie-Française ; The Restoration ; Acting Is Declamation -- III—THE CHANGES IN ACTING: 7—The Successful Eighteenth Century: Examinations ; The Book Betterton ; Before 1725 in Paris and London ; The First Riccoboni ; Other Lands ; Aaron Hill, Macklin, and Garrick ; Le Comédien (1747) ; The Younger Riccoboni ; The Second Hill ; More Garrick, More Nature ; Germany; Russia ; Diderot ; Elocution Triumphant ; Elocution in English. 8—The Perplexed Nineteenth Century: Some Rebels ; Reflections by Talma ; Critics and Kean ; Macready and Others ; Romantic Flare ; Tinges of Realism ; Realism After 1850 ; English Directors ; American Actors ; The Meininger ; Realism Rampant by 1875 ; Nonrealism ; Actor’s Choice? ; Coquelin’s Method ; Reality Reproduced -- IV—THE VARIETY OF ACTING: 9—The Mass-Culture Century: Prologue ; From Sweden to Duse ; To Theatricalize or Not? ; English-Speaking Actors ; After 1910: Copeau ; Expressionism ; Stanislavski Prepares ; Mostly Box Office ; American Accent in the 1920’s ; Stark Young ; Various Russians ; Finding a “System” ; 1930–1950 ; The Years Ahead -- Sources -- Important Writings on Acting [Bibliografia]