Background
Freund, Philip Herbert was born on February 5, 1909 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Henry and Augusta (Robinson) Freund.
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The fourth volume in the Stage by Stage series, this scholarly but accessible book--written in clear compelling prose--brings to life the many worlds of the Baroque period. The fourth volume of the Stage by Stage series fills a gap in the history of theater--until now there has never been a wide ranging study of theatre in the Age of Baroque, the exciting period from the last decades of the 17th c...
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(Theater buffs will welcome historian Freund's comprehensi...)
Theater buffs will welcome historian Freund's comprehensive survey of classical drama, with its excellent coverage of modern productions of ancient plays.... The richness is in the detail and nothing is omitted.""-Publishers Weekly. Stage by Stage is a massive undertaking by the noted theatre historian and playwright, an expansive chronicle of world theatre from primitive rites and enactments of myths to contemporary drama, to be published in three volumes. The Birth of Theatre traces the evolution of classical drama from its beginnings in Egyptian and Middle Eastern religious ritual and the Greek mystical cult of Dionysus, through the golden age of the Periclean period, and ending with the major Roman playwrights. The book includes detailed discussions of the existing major plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes. This is followed by accounts of notable productions, operas, and revivals, especially in the U.S. and Britain over the past fifty years and earlier. Freund moves on to discuss the development of Middle and New Comedy in Greece and the works of Plautus, Terence, and Horace. The product of vast learning, enormous research and, above all, a passion for theatre, these volumes represent a unique and extraordinary achievement in the literature of the stage. The forthcoming volumes will be Oriental Theatre and Dramatis Personae: The Rise of Medieval and Renaissance Theatre. Philip Freund is Professor Emeritus of Fordham University.
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( The fourth volume in the Stage by Stage series, this sc...)
The fourth volume in the Stage by Stage series, this scholarly but accessible book—written in clear compelling prose—brings to life the many worlds of the Baroque period. The fourth volume of the Stage by Stage series fills a gap in the history of theater—until now there has never been a wide ranging study of theatre in the Age of Baroque, the exciting period from the last decades of the 17th century to the early years of the 19th. Here is a graphic, broad, yet closely studied account of what happened on stage above the sputtering, smoky footlights—a mere two rows of candles—and behind the scenes; who were the leading playwrights and performers, composers and singers, choreographers and dancers, some of whom were deemed immortal, and others once famed, then forgotten, but now restored to their rightful places. Wide in scope, it is packed with tales of a host of kings and players, crafty cardinals and opprobrious bishops, tormented dramatists and joyful dancers.
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Freund, Philip Herbert was born on February 5, 1909 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Henry and Augusta (Robinson) Freund.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1929. Master of Arts, Cornell University, 1932.
Lecturer Institute Film Techniques City College of New York, New York City, 1945—1965. Lecturer Hunter College, 1946—1978, Cornell University, New York City, 1948. Lecturer University British Columbia, 1949—1951.
Professor Fordham University, New York City, 1960—1979, professor emeritus, from 1979.
(The fourth volume in the Stage by Stage series, this scho...)
( The fourth volume in the Stage by Stage series, this sc...)
(Theater buffs will welcome historian Freund's comprehensi...)
(A history of theater from the disappearance of Greek and ...)
Head scenario board review Signal Corp Photographic Center, New York City, 1943—1945. President Herbert Robinson Philanthropic Fund, from 1960. Member of Sigma Delta Chi.