Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Towse, John Ranken

9781330861820: Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330861825 ISBN 13: 9781330861820

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories

Macready, Forrest, the Keans, the Booths, Daven port and their contemporaries, will readily assent to the degeneracy of the modern theater in all matters of sheer artistry and histrioni'sm. It is only in scenic accessories, and in the lighter and less permanent varieties of drama that it has made any notable advance. Some attempt has been made herein to point out some of the main causes of this generally acknowledged decadence, and to indicate the most hopeful measures for its arrest.

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Excerpt from Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories

The writer of these reminiscences is fully conscious of their disorderly, discursive and imperfect form. When he began to jot them down for serial publication in The Evening Post, he did not foresee the possibility of their ultimate collection in a single volume, or he would have arranged them differently, with greater respect for convenient grouping and chronological sequence. This may help to explain, if not to excuse, many obvious shortcomings. These pages make no pretense of being a complete historical record even of the period with which they deal. If they have any value it is because they record the honest impressions and convictions of one who has been a lifelong lover and student of the theater - which ought to be one of the most beneficial, as it is certainly one of the most potent agencies at the disposal of civilization - and who has enjoyed exceptional facilities for seeing it at its best and worst, and noting its influences for good or evil. He can only hope that he has not altogether abused them. Many readers, doubtless, will disagree with some of his theories, conclusions, and critical estimates, and he is not silly enough to imagine that his judgments are infallible, but these, such as they are, are based upon experience and comparison, not upon personal prejudice or predilection.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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