Oscar Brockett

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Oscar Brockett

Oscar Brockett is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University

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Oscar Brockett

Engineering

#6387

World Rank

#7711

Historical Rank

#1264

USA Rank

Architecture

#961

World Rank

#1644

Historical Rank

#263

USA Rank

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Oscar Brockett's Degrees

PhD Theatre Stanford University
Masters Theatre Stanford University
Bachelors Theatre University of Texas at Austin

Why Is Oscar Brockett Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Oscar Gross Brockett was president of the American Theatre Association. An American Theater historian, he was Dean of the College of Fine Art at the University of Texas in Austin . Background and education He grew up in Hartsville, Tennessee; his parents were tobacco farmers. Brockett received his bachelor's degree from Peabody College and went on to do graduate studies at Stanford University, receiving both his masters and doctorate from the Drama Department. His masters thesis was about the production history of Of Mice and Men; his dissertation was about satire in English Restoration comedies. Brockett's Stanford Professor Hubert C. Heffner remained his mentor for decades. Oscar married Lenyth Spenker in 1951, herself a writer and a scholar who collaborated with him on many of his projects.

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Oscar Brockett's Published Works

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Published Works

History of the theatre (1968) (185)
The essential theatre (1976) (73)
The theatre, an introduction. (1964) (60)
Century of innovation : a history of European and American theatre and drama since 1870 (1973) (33)
Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since the Late Nineteenth Century (1990) (8)
The theater, an introduction (1974) (7)
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States (2010) (7)
Perspectives on contemporary theatre (1971) (7)
Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River (1989) (6)
Group IV: Theatre in the Education Process (1968) (3)
Studies in Theatre and Drama: Essays in Honor of Hubert C. Heffner (1973) (3)
J. T. Grein and the ghost of oscar wilde (1966) (2)
Research in Theatre History (1967) (2)
Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthology (1979) (2)
ANTOINE'S EXPERIMENTS IN STAGING SHAKESPEAREAN AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH DRAMA (1972) (1)
Euripides' "Medea": Mythic Context and the Sense of Futurity (1958) (1)
A bibliographical guide to research in speech and dramatic art (1963) (1)
II. The humanities: Theatre history (1976) (1)
J. M. Barrie and the journalist at his elbow (1958) (1)
Power, Censorship, and Validation (2010) (1)
Charles Nodier's Estimate of Shakespeare (1961) (1)
Dramatic Criticism and the Contemporary Theatre (1972) (1)
Civil War Theater: Contemporary Treatments (2013) (1)
Theatre in Nashville during the civil war (1957) (1)
Introduction to the Theatre; or, What You Will (1973) (1)
On Theatre History: Historical Study in the Theatre Curriculum (2004) (0)
Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon (review) (2018) (0)
Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière: The Comic Contract by Nicholas Grene (review) (2018) (0)
Pixerécourt and Unified Production (1959) (0)
Pierrot: A Critical Study of a Mask (1981) (0)
The Prompter's Box (1960) (0)
The Greek National Theatre's Staging of Ancient Drama (1957) (0)
Approaching Theatre . Under the direction of André Helbo J. Dines Johansen, Patrice Pavis, Anne Ubersfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991; pp. 223. $39.95. (1992) (0)
The European career of Alexandre Placide (1962) (0)
Plays for the theatre;: An anthology of world drama, (1974) (0)
Eugène Labiche and Georges Feydeau by Leonard C. Pronko (review) (2018) (0)
Shakespeare on the American Stage: From the Hallams to Edwin Booth by Charles H. Shattuck (review) (2018) (0)
British Museum. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: Plays Submitted to the Lord Chamberlain, 1824-1851 (1965) (0)
A History of American Acting by Garff B. Wilson (1967) (0)
Satire in Late Elizabethan Plays (1955) (0)
Some Reflections on Research in Theatre History (1965) (0)
Symposium: Speech and the Humanities: The Humanities: Theatre History. (1976) (0)
Century of Innovation: A History of of European and American Theatre and Drama since 1870 (1976) (0)
The Uses of the Theatrical Past: Recent Theatre History Texts (1974) (0)
The Function of Dance in the Melodramas of Guilbert de Pixerécourt (1959) (0)

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