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Caliban By The Yellow Sands

Caliban By The Yellow Sands

Percy MacKaye

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Historia
ISBN:
9789354544088
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A radiant doorway into a vanished theatre world. Caliban By The Yellow Sands invites us to watch a fully formed drama of ideas, where performance and pedagogy meet in a historic vision of community theatre.This compact, ambitious collection presents a dramatic anthology that argues for theatre as a public art and a shared schoolroom. The text blends performance directions, manifestos, and scenes that illuminate the Shakespearean performance tradition, the theatre masque, and early twentieth-century American theatre history. It reads as both a theatre-maker’s workshop and a teacher resource, offering concepts that still shape arts pedagogy history and student study guidance today. The work speaks to casual readers curious about performance cultures, while also offering rich material for classic-literature collectors seeking a precise, artistically serious window into the era.Literary and historical significance are braided together: a touchstone for the New England theatre milieu, resonant with Bernard Shaw influence, and a lighthouse for public performance practice. This edition is more than a reprint; it is a restored cultural treasure, prepared for today’s audiences and tomorrow’s theatres. Out of print for decades, Caliban By The Yellow Sands returns to readers as a thoughtfully curated, collectible cornerstone that honours theatre’s communal ideals and keeps alive a lineage of dramatic invention-for classrooms, study, and intimate evenings of performance.

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