Preface | p. xi |
Locating Theatre, Experiencing Plays: Theory and Criticism | p. 1 |
Theatre: Performance and Art | p. 2 |
Theatre as Performance | p. 3 |
Theatre as Art | p. 7 |
Theatre as Performing Art | p. 11 |
Taking Stock | p. 16 |
Key Terms | p. 17 |
Theatre: Cultural Expression, Business, and the Role of Audience | p. 18 |
The Nature of Theatre Audiences | p. 20 |
Theatre as Cultural Expression: The Role of the Audience | p. 24 |
Theatre as Business: The Role of the Audience | p. 28 |
Key Terms | p. 33 |
How to Read a Play | p. 34 |
Preliminary Work | p. 36 |
Play Analysis Using the Parts of the Play | p. 39 |
Organizing a Response | p. 49 |
Key Terms | p. 51 |
How to See a Play | p. 52 |
Preliminary Work | p. 56 |
Performance Analysis | p. 58 |
Organizing a Response | p. 69 |
Key Terms | p. 71 |
Mediators and Gatekeepers | p. 72 |
Theorists | p. 73 |
Critics | p. 76 |
Reviewers | p. 77 |
Dramaturgs | p. 78 |
Specialists in Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing | p. 79 |
Agents | p. 80 |
Key Terms | p. 83 |
Today's Theatre and Its Makers: Theatre Practice | p. 85 |
Making Theatre Today: The Context | p. 86 |
Theatre Spaces | p. 87 |
Producing Situations in the United States | p. 90 |
Theatre Funding | p. 101 |
Key Terms | p. 103 |
Playwrights | p. 104 |
The Nature of Playwrights and Playwriting | p. 105 |
Being a Playwright | p. 106 |
Training Playwrights | p. 112 |
From Page to Stage: Professional Issues | p. 113 |
What Is Good Playwriting? | p. 124 |
Key Terms | p. 124 |
Actors | p. 125 |
The Nature of Acting | p. 126 |
Training Actors | p. 131 |
Audition, Rehearsal, and Performance | p. 144 |
The Personality of the Actor | p. 147 |
What Is Good Acting? | p. 149 |
Key Terms | p. 149 |
Directors | p. 150 |
The Nature of Directing | p. 151 |
The Director at Work | p. 157 |
Training Directors | p. 181 |
What Is Good Directing? | p. 182 |
Key Terms | p. 183 |
Designers and Technicians | p. 184 |
The Nature of Design | p. 186 |
Designers at Work | p. 189 |
Training Designers | p. 200 |
What Is Good Design? | p. 202 |
Key Terms | p. 203 |
Theatre of Other Times and Places: Theatre History | p. 205 |
Theatre: Present and Past | p. 205 |
The Sweep of Theatre History | p. 206 |
Facade Stages (534 B.C.E.-C. 550 C.E.) | |
The Theatre of Greece | p. 211 |
Theories of the Origins of Theatre | p. 212 |
Traits of Greek Theatre | p. 216 |
Plays and Playwrights | p. 219 |
Theatre Buildings and Practices | p. 225 |
The End of Athens' Golden Age | p. 229 |
Indian Theatre | p. 234 |
Key Terms | p. 236 |
The Theatre of Rome | p. 237 |
Roman Festivals and Theatre | p. 239 |
Roman Drama | p. 239 |
Theatre Buildings, Scenery, Costumes, and Masks | p. 241 |
Audiences | p. 242 |
The Empire and the End of Roman Drama | p. 243 |
The Breakup of the Empire | p. 248 |
The Byzantine Empire: Its Rise and Fall | p. 248 |
Key Terms | p. 251 |
Emblem, Environment, and Simultaneity (c. 950-c. 1550) | |
Theatre in the Middle Ages | p. 253 |
Early Medieval Drama and Theatre | p. 255 |
Medieval Culture and Theatre, c. 1200-c. 1550 | p. 258 |
The End of Medieval Religious Theatre: The Transformation of Medieval Secular Theatre | p. 268 |
Theatres in the East | p. 269 |
Key Terms | p. 272 |
The Golden Ages of England and Spain | p. 273 |
The Renaissance in the North: The Age of Shakespeare | p. 276 |
The Closing of English Theatres | p. 285 |
The Spanish Golden Age | p. 286 |
Theatres in the East | p. 287 |
Key Terms | p. 289 |
Illusionism (c. 1550-1960) | |
The Italian Renaissance | p. 291 |
Theatre in Italy | p. 292 |
Theatres in the East | p. 302 |
Key Terms | p. 304 |
The Triumph and Decline of Neoclassicism | p. 305 |
French Theatre from Its Beginnings through Its Golden Age | p. 306 |
English Restoration Theatre and Beyond (1660-c. 1750) | p. 315 |
Theatres in the East | p. 321 |
Key Terms | p. 326 |
Successful Failure: Theatre and Reform, 1750-1960s | p. 327 |
Romanticism, 1750-1850 | p. 330 |
Realism, 1850-1950 | p. 337 |
Realism and Naturalism | p. 339 |
Avant-Gardism, 1890-1960 | p. 347 |
Avant-Garde Theatres and Movements | p. 355 |
Key Terms | p. 360 |
Commercialism | p. 362 |
What Is Commercialism? | p. 363 |
Drama in the Commercial Theatre | p. 365 |
Theatres and Production Practices | p. 381 |
The Decline of Commercial Theatre | p. 386 |
Responses to Commercial Theatre | p. 388 |
The Theatres of Colonialism | p. 391 |
Theatre in the East | p. 393 |
Key Terms | p. 396 |
Theatre for a New Millennium | p. 397 |
Postmodernism | p. 399 |
The Theatre, 1960-2000s | p. 400 |
Global Theatre | p. 413 |
Key Terms | p. 419 |
Glossary | p. 420 |
Index | p. 439 |
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