A Book About the Theater

by Brander Matthews

• The Show Business [1]
• The Limitations of the Stage [17]
• A Moral from a Toy Theater [37]
• Why Five Acts? [55]
• Dramatic Collaboration [77]
• The Dramatization of Novels and the
  Novelization of Plays [93]
• Women Dramatists [111]
• The Evolution of Scene-Painting [127]
• The Book of the Opera [153]
• The Poetry of the Dance [169]
• The Principles of Pantomime [185]
• The Ideal of the Acrobat [201]
• The Decline and Fall of Negro-Minstrelsy [217]
• The Utility of the Variety-Show [235]
• The Method of Modern Magic [251]
• The Lamentable Tragedy of Punch and Judy [271]
• The Puppet-Play, Past and Present [287]
• Shadow-Pantomime, with All the Modern
  Improvements [303]
• The Problem of Dramatic Criticism [319]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Le ballet de la reine [Frontispiece]

FACING PAGE

Upper half of Plate No. 1, the 'Miller and His Men' [a]40]

A group of the principal characters from
Pollock's juvenile drama, the 'Miller and His Men' [42]

Explosion of the mill. A back drop in the 'Miller and His Men' [46]

Plate No. 7, the 'Miller and His Men' [48]

Lower half of Plate No. 5, the 'Miller and His Men' [52]