scene design and stage lighting: Bibliography

See B. Hewitt, ed., The Renaissance Stage (1958); A. S. Gillette, An Introduction to Scenic Design (1967); A. Nicoll, The Development of the Theatre (5th ed. 1967); H. Burris-Meyer et al., Scenery for the Theatre (rev. ed. 1971); J. Rosenthal and L. Wertenbaker, The Magic of Light (1972); S. Rosenfeld, A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain (1973); W. F. Bellman, Lighting the Stage: Art and Practices (2d ed. 1974); R. L. Arnold, Scene Technology (1985); J. Collins, The Art of Scene Painting (1987).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The Twentieth Century
• The Nineteenth Century
• The Eighteenth Century
• The Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century
• The Middle Ages
• Ancient Rome
• Ancient Greece
• Bibliography

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