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Excerpt from Manners and Movements: In Costume Plays
Two main problems confront the producer who wishes to tackle this type of play: acquiring the necessary historical information, and using this in formation with dramatic effect. All too often a costume play fails to convince because the characters lack reality; they are so obviously modern men and women in fancy dress.
The more one studies the past, the more strongly one feels that human nature has changed very little in essentials and that history indeed repeats itself. For example, the modern American custom of cutting in caused trouble in sixteenth-century ball-rooms, and during the same period a special form of galliard was introduced to circumvent certain indiscreet young gentlemen who had formed the bad habit of keeping to one partner. Again, in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme the dancing-master gives a lesson on the minuet a hundred and twenty years later Bunbury published a cartoon called The Long Minuet in which he caricatured contemporary ball room dancers in both cases the faults of memory or movement are precisely those one meets with when teaching the dance today.
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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.
Two main problems confront the producer who wishes to tackle this type of play: acquiring the necessary historical information, and using this in formation with dramatic effect. All too often a costume play fails to convince because the characters lack reality; they are so obviously modern men and women in fancy dress.
The more one studies the past, the more strongly one feels that human nature has changed very little in essentials and that history indeed repeats itself. For example, the modern American custom of cutting in caused trouble in sixteenth-century ball-rooms, and during the same period a special form of galliard was introduced to circumvent certain indiscreet young gentlemen who had formed the bad habit of keeping to one partner. Again, in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme the dancing-master gives a lesson on the minuet a hundred and twenty years later Bunbury published a cartoon called The Long Minuet in which he caricatured contemporary ball room dancers in both cases the faults of memory or movement are precisely those one meets with when teaching the dance today.
About the Publisher
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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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Isabel Chisman
Hardback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331935752
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
Page Count - 131
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ISBN - 9781331906681
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm
Page Count - 133
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