A. M. Nagler (1907–1993)
Author of A Source Book in Theatrical History
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- Canonical name
- Nagler, A. M.
- Legal name
- Nagler, Alois Maria
- Birthdate
- 1907
- Date of death
- 1993
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Graz
- Occupations
- theater critic
theater historian - Organizations
- Yale University
- Short biography
- Alois Maria Nagler was born in Graz, Austria, in 1907, and educated at the University of Graz. In the 1930s he was a theater critic and literary editor for a Viennese newspaper. Nagler visited the United States as a guest lecturer in the late 1930s and did not return to Europe. In 1946 he joined the Yale faculty teaching theater history and was director of graduate studies in theater history until his retirement in 1976. Nagler was co-founder and past president of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and co-founder and former chairman of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). He is the author of A Source Book in Theatrical History. Nagler died in Wallingford, Connecticut, on August 5, 2008.
- Nationality
- Austria (birth)
- Birthplace
- Graz, Austria
- Place of death
- Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Austria
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A Source Book In Theatrical History: Twenty-Five Centuries Of Stage History In More Than 300 Basic Documents And Other Primary Material by A. M. Nagler
This book is amazing. What an overview. I perhaps own three copies.
from Amazon.com: The author divides the material in 14 parts: Antiquity, The Middle Ages, The golden age of Spain, Italian Renaissance, Tudor and Stewart periods, The age of Louis XIV, The restoration theater, Venetian comedy, Eighteenth century England, Weimar Classicism, Nineteenth Century England, The American Theater, European naturalism.- For each period, the author has collected more than 300 primary texts, through which we feel that the past is still next to us. The spectator's show more manners, the way of acting, the conditions of rehearsals, the reactions of the audience, all of them come to us through real documents. More than 80 pictures in black-and-white complete this very good edition. (The pictures are, unfortunately, not very well printed.) show less
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