...Thornton S. Graves The Devil in the Playhouse Thornton S. Graves Trinity College. The playhouse, declared Tertullian, is the Devil s Tem­ ple ; Satan, according to Saint Chrysostom, was the first builder of theatres. The Chappel of Satan, The Schoolhouse of Satan, Sathanes Synagogue...

... s second lease of the playhouse, it is brought out that some of his opponents, apparently using the word tenement in the restricted sense of tenement building, urged that Burbage had agreed to use the Theatre as a playhouse for only five of the twenty-one years specified in the lease...

...Thornton S. Graves Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Literal Acceptance of Stage Illusion Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina It is an interesting comment on playhouse realism that, whereas theatrical people are repeatedly urging the desirability of complete stage...

... of the actors in relation to the playmakers and the playhouses. The book contains thirty-two plates and many line drawings of plans and architectural designs. One of its virtues is the analysis of the various animal arenas (for bull and bear baiting, cockfights, eques­ trian display); their use as dramatic...

... the greatest plays in English were originally produced. It concludes the section of the study devoted to the historical and physical characteristics of the buildings; Volume III, which is promised, will examine the pro­ duction techniques of the actors in relation to the playmakers and the playhouses. The book...

... at Williams s Coffee-House, This Day, at one o clock, on business of importance. For nearly sixty years Charleston had been foremost among Southern cities in theat­ ricals; now the drama, which had lain dormant for some time because of the lack of a playhouse, was once again to be revived. A second meeting...

... in relation to the playmakers and the playhouses. The book contains thirty-two plates and many line drawings of plans and architectural designs. One of its virtues is the analysis of the various animal arenas (for bull and bear baiting, cockfights, eques­ trian display); their use as dramatic arenas has...

... to this old comedian a speaking part; not a single bray, with the possible exception of a song by Bottom, is recorded in those stage directions and other materials out" of which moderns have reconstructed all the Elizabethan playhouses. Specialists in source-hunting may well wonder why the gentle bard of Avon...

... by M. Auguste, especially, and described and defended by Dr. Veron, a former manager of the Paris Opera House. And when we consider the elaborateness and efficiency of this system prac­ ticed in the playhouse of Dr. Veron the selection and coach­ ing of claquers, the disposition of them in the theater...

... (July, 1914); Tricks of Elizabethan Showmen (April, 1915); The Ass as Actor (April, 1916); The Devil in the Playhouse (April, 1920); Organized Applause (July, 1920); The Stage Sword and Dagger (July, 1921); The Comedy of Stage Death (April, 1922); The Literal Acceptance of Stage Illusion...

... parently contrary, Professor Alan S. Downer argues for stage history as a legitimate field for literary research. It might be taken for a truism that the investigation of the practical conditions in the playhouse would contribute to our understanding of a drama, but the problem still remains, as above...

..., Wesley does not seem to have been the narrow bigot that he has been made out. His objections are directed rather against the contem­ porary degeneracy of the playhouse than against stage plays per se. Not even does theatrical lampooning and scurrility directed against his followers stir him...

.... In a contrary direction, or perhaps only ap­ parently contrary, Professor Alan S. Downer argues for stage history as a legitimate field for literary research. It might be taken for a truism that the investigation of the practical conditions in the playhouse would contribute to our understanding of a drama...

... theatrical career, the author makes use of his studies for his well-known Shakespearean Playhouses. The reader gains an excellent idea of the life of the times, with respect to such things as the opposition of Puri­ tanical city authorities to the theatre. The account is specific enough to be interesting...

... to the theater, mentioning such houses as the Cockpit, the Whitefriars, the Blackfriars, Davenant s, the Red Bull, Salisbury Court, the Opera, The King s Theater, the Duke s Playhouse, the Royal Theater, and the Globe. He saw both pre-Restoration and contemporary plays. Most of the latter appear to have been...

... the victim of a playhouse riot, Johnson invented a scene in which he could play a provoking condoler, reviling the playhouse mob for its lack of taste and manners (Burney, p. 30). But Johnson could also play a role without giving it away, purely for mischief: Sheri­ dan is a wonderful admirer...

..., the theater has just begun to re­ veal to us its unbounded strength. The playhouse, so long restricted by narrowness and crudity of popular taste, has be­ come one of the three or four greatest influences in modern life. America alone employs fifty-five thousand people an­ nually, in seven hundred companies...

... revivals and adapations. As he says in his introduction: But since these works were performed in theatres, it has been necessary to deal also with the playhouses and with methods of staging, from Betterton to Irving. Changes both before and behind the curtain are noted, anything, in fact, that had to do...

... popular of all amusements then, as now, was a game of chance, which, among the Romans, consisted of throwing dice (a/ea), at which large sums were lost and won. : But what has been left of the magnificence of these playhouses The South Atlantic Quarterly. of the wealthy? In nearly every case only...

... Television Playhouse, Studio One, and Playhouse 90,which Clocks, Containment, and Music in High Noon 159 Figure 2. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s Bulletin Clock, set here at three minutes before doomsday (1984). were building in popularity in 1952 but which...