Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture

by Marvin A. Carlson

Book Overview

"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban planning, architecture, and interior and exterior theatre embellishment to the social, political, economic and occasionally even aesthetic purposes of those responsible for these 'signifiers.'"--Theatre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480949
• ISBN13: 9780801480942
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher