Bøger af John D. Mitchell

Published in Association with the New York Botanical GardenThe Manual of Leaf Architecture is an essential reference for describing, comparing, and classifying the leaves of flowering plants. This manual, illustrated with dozens of line drawings and more than 300 photographs of prepared stained leaves, provides a framework with comparative examples allowing consistent and detailed description of both modern and fossil leaves. This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to a broad range of people who work with plants, from paleobotanists to systematists to tropical ecologists.The Manual allows for the description and identification of plants independently of their flowers, offering especially useful assistance in the case of fossil leaves (usually found in isolation) and tropical plants, whose flowering cycles can be brief and irregular, and whose fruits and flowers may be difficult to access. It provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the organization, shape, venation, and margins of the leaves of flowering plants.Beginning with a set of illustrated definitions of leaf characters, this manual proceeds to define and illustrate the variations on each of these characters. The system presented here is based on a widely tested scheme but has been significantly expanded and refined through the detailed examination of thousands of living and fossil leaves.

The appeal of Asian Theater in America today confirms that the theatre of the Far East is a remarkable and catalytic experience for a Western audience. This book presents two complete plays in the theatrical forms of Noh and Kabuki.

Celebrating the debt artists owe to their predecessors, these two plays - an original by Mitchell, and a translation from Eugene Labiche's "Money's a Meddler", seek to illustrate the obvious and not so apparent chain of influence from writer to writer, that stretches across the ages.

Vivid tales and anecdotes about the theatre told by John D. Mitchell, founder of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts.

Vivid tales and anecdotes about the theatre told by John D. Mitchell, founder of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts.

A free-verse translation of Bhasa's Sanskrit play dating back to 400 B. C. Accompanied by directorial notes of Mrinalini Sarabhai, along with line drawings of the mudras or hand gestures essential to the authenticity of expression in Sanskrit plays, with the original and the translation on facing pages.

This new translation is annotated with the comments of Yuri Zavadski, one of Russia's most acclaimed and decorated stage directors. Drawing fro his extensive experience directing under the aegis of both Stanislovski and Vakhtagnov, Zavadski illumi-nates the text of Chekhov's dramatic masterpiece.

This timeless Spanish Morality play is an exciting and humorous 17th Century look at the follies and vices of human beings. Written by José de Valdivieso in 1602, the play is included with director's notes from the 1972 IASTA production and exceptional illustrations of the expressionistic costumes used in the production.

A collection of twenty-five years of research on theatre styles from around the world, Theatre, The Search for Style contains interviews with over twenty acclaimed directors on the Commedia Dell'Arte, Peking Opera, Kabuki and Noh theatre, Sanskrit, The Spanish Golden Age, Greek theatre, American Musical Comedy, Phedre, Chekhov, Brecht, and Racine.