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| Preface | |
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| Locating Theatre, Experiencing Plays: Theory and Criticism | |
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| Theatre: Performance and Art | |
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| Theatre as Performance | |
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| Theatre as Art | |
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| Theatre as Performing Art | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Theatre: Cultural Expression, Business, and the Role of Audience | |
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| The Nature of Theatre Audiences | |
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| Theatre as Cultural Expression: The Role of the Audience | |
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| Theatre as Business: The Role of the Audience | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| How to Read a Play | |
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| Preliminary Work | |
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| Play Analysis Using the Parts of the Play | |
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| Organizing a Response | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| How to See a Play | |
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| Preliminary Work | |
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| Performance Analysis | |
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| Organizing a Response | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Mediators and Gatekeepers | |
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| Theorists | |
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| Critics | |
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| Reviewers | |
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| Dramaturgs | |
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| Specialists in Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing | |
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| Agents | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Today's Theatre and Its Makers: Theatre Practice | |
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| Making Theatre Today: The Context | |
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| Theatre Spaces | |
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| Producing Situations in the United States | |
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| Theatre Funding | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Playwrights | |
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| The Nature of Playwrights and Playwriting | |
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| Being a Playwright | |
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| Training Playwrights | |
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| From Page to Stage: Professional Issues | |
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| What Is Good Playwriting? | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Actors | |
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| The Nature of Acting | |
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| Training Actors | |
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| Audition, Rehearsal, and Performance | |
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| The Personality of the Actor | |
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| What Is Good Acting? | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Directors | |
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| The Nature of Directing | |
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| The Director at Work | |
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| Training Directors | |
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| What Is Good Directing? | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Designers and Technicians | |
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| The Nature of Design | |
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| Designers at Work | |
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| Training Designers | |
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| What Is Good Design? | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Theatre of Other Times and Places: Theatre History | |
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| Theatre: Present and Past | |
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| The Sweep of Theatre History | |
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| Facade Stages (534 B.C.E.-C. 550 C.E.) | |
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| The Theatre of Greece | |
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| Theories of the Origins of Theatre | |
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| Traits of Greek Theatre | |
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| Plays and Playwrights | |
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| Theatre Buildings and Practices | |
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| The End of Athens' Golden Age | |
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| Indian Theatre | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Theatre of Rome | |
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| Roman Festivals and Theatre | |
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| Roman Drama | |
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| Theatre Buildings, Scenery, Costumes, and Masks | |
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| Audiences | |
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| The Empire and the End of Roman Drama | |
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| The Breakup of the Empire | |
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| The Byzantine Empire: Its Rise and Fall | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Emblem, Environment, and Simultaneity (c. 950-c. 1550) | |
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| Theatre in the Middle Ages | |
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| Early Medieval Drama and Theatre | |
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| Medieval Culture and Theatre, c. 1200-c. 1550 | |
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| The End of Medieval Religious Theatre: The Transformation of Medieval Secular Theatre | |
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| Theatres in the East | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Golden Ages of England and Spain | |
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| The Renaissance in the North: The Age of Shakespeare | |
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| The Closing of English Theatres | |
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| The Spanish Golden Age | |
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| Theatres in the East | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Illusionism (c. 1550-1960) | |
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| The Italian Renaissance | |
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| Theatre in Italy | |
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| Theatres in the East | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Triumph and Decline of Neoclassicism | |
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| French Theatre from Its Beginnings through Its Golden Age | |
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| English Restoration Theatre and Beyond (1660-c. 1750) | |
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| Theatres in the East | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Successful Failure: Theatre and Reform, 1750-1960s | |
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| Romanticism, 1750-1850 | |
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| Realism, 1850-1950 | |
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| Realism and Naturalism | |
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| Avant-Gardism, 1890-1960 | |
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| Avant-Garde Theatres and Movements | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Commercialism | |
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| What Is Commercialism? | |
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| Drama in the Commercial Theatre | |
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| Theatres and Production Practices | |
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| The Decline of Commercial Theatre | |
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| Responses to Commercial Theatre | |
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| The Theatres of Colonialism | |
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| Theatre in the East | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Theatre for a New Millennium | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| The Theatre, 1960-2000s | |
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| Global Theatre | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |