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| Interpreting the Drama | |
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| Improvisation | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| About Improvisation | |
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| Character-Centered and Situation-Centered Approaches | |
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| Improvising Scenes | |
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| Chapter 1 Review Focus on Scripts | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Pantomime and Mime | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Basic Pantomime Movements | |
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| Principles of Pantomime | |
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| Individual Pantomimes | |
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| Group Pantomimes | |
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| Mime | |
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| Chapter 2 Review Focus on Choreography | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Voice and Diction | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Developing an Effective Voice | |
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| Using Your Voice Effectively | |
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| Improving Your Diction | |
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| Voice and Diction in Acting | |
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| Chapter 3 Review Focus on Radio | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Acting | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Shakespeare's Advice to Actors | |
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| The Special Language of Acting | |
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| Approaches to Acting | |
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| Characterization | |
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| Building Up Your Part | |
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| Physical Acting | |
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| Vocal Acting | |
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| Getting Onstage | |
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| Acting Techniques | |
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| Communicating Onstage | |
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| Accents and Dialects | |
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| Rehearsing | |
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| Adapting to the Arena and Thrust Stages | |
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| Chapter 4 Review Focus on Evaluating Theater | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Theater Etiquette | |
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| A Treasury of Scenes and Monologues | |
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| Scenes for One Man and One Woman | |
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| Romeo and Juliet | |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest | |
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| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | |
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| The Rainmaker | |
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| The Diary of Anne Frank | |
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| Barefoot in the Park | |
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| Harvey | |
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| The Dining Room | |
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| The Breakfast Special | |
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| The Sound of a Voice | |
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| Green Grow the Lilacs | |
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| Scenes for Two Women | |
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| Antigone | |
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| The Glass Menagerie | |
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| Wine in the Wilderness | |
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| Butterflies Are Free | |
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| Romeo and Juliet | |
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| Brighton Beach Memoirs | |
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| I Love You, I Love You Not | |
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| Riders to the Sea | |
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| Haiku | |
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| On Golden Pond | |
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| Scenes for Two Men | |
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| You Can't Take It with You | |
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| No Time for Sergeants | |
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| Dial M for Murder | |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest | |
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| Brighton Beach Memoirs | |
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| Fences | |
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| How I Got That Story | |
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| Man with Bags | |
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| Othello | |
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| Scenes for Mixed Groups | |
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| The Diary of Anne Frank | |
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| A Raisin in the Sun | |
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| Letters to a Student Revolutionary | |
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| The Dramatic Circle | |
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| The Mask of Hiroshima | |
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| The Dining Room | |
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| Monologues for Women | |
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| The Belle of Amherst | |
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| A Raisin in the Sun | |
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| The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | |
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| I Remember Mama | |
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| The Taming of the Shrew | |
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| I Love You, I Love You Not | |
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| Fences | |
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| The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | |
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| Monologues for Men | |
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| Cyrano de Bergerac | |
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| Julius Caesar | |
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| Wine in the Wilderness | |
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| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | |
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| A Thousand Clowns | |
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| Man of La Mancha | |
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| The Piano Lesson | |
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| A Few Good Men | |
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| My Children! My Africa! | |
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| Readers Theater | |
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| Appreciating the Drama | |
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| The Structure of Drama | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Tradition and Innovation in Drama | |
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| Narrative Essentials | |
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| Chapter 5 Review: Focus on Community Theater | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Varieties of Drama | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Tragedy | |
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| Comedy | |
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| Types of Comedy | |
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| Other Types of Drama | |
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| Styles of Drama | |
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| Chapter 6 Review: Focus on Dramatic Texts | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| History of Drama | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Origins of Western Drama | |
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| The Renaissance and Drama | |
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| Later Drama in England | |
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| Later Drama Elsewhere in Europe | |
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| Drama in Asia | |
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| Drama in the United States | |
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| Chapter 7 Review: Focus on Theater and American Society | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Puppet Theater | |
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| Producing the Drama | |
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| Producing the Play | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| The Production Staff | |
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| Prerehearsal Activities | |
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| Rehearsals | |
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| Chapter 8 Review: Focus on Collaboration | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Producing the Musical Play | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Types of Musical Theater | |
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| Planning for the Musical Play | |
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| Directing the Musical Play | |
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| Staging the Musical Play | |
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| Chapter 9 Review: Focus on Music | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Stage Settings | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Purposes of Scenery | |
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| Scenic Design | |
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| Procedures in Scenic Design | |
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| Constructing the Set | |
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| Stage Safety | |
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| Scenery and the Performance | |
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| Chapter 10 Review: Focus on Safety | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Lighting and Sound | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Stage Lighting Effects | |
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| Lighting Equipment | |
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| Basic Lighting Principles | |
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| Special Lighting Effects | |
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| Planning the Lighting | |
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| Sound | |
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| Sound Equipment | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Planning Sound | |
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| Chapter 11 Review: Focus on Stage Technicians | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Costuming | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Effective Costuming | |
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| Obtaining the Costumes | |
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| Caring for Costumes | |
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| Chapter 12 Review: Focus on Period Clothing | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Makeup | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Straight Makeup: The Six Steps | |
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| Special Makeup Problems | |
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| Chapter 13 Review: Focus on Audience Behavior | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| How to Judge a Play | |
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| Adapting and Interpreting the Drama | |
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| Theater and Other Media | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| From the Stage to the Big Screen | |
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| From Movies to Television | |
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| Dramatic Structure and the Screen | |
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| Performing Before the Camera | |
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| Assessing the Success of a Production | |
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| Chapter 14 Review: Focus on Criticism | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Theater and Other Art Forms | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Music | |
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| Dance | |
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| Fine Art | |
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| Common Elements and Influences | |
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| Synthesis of Art Forms in Theater | |
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| Chapter 15 Review: Focus on the Arts | |
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| Review Workshop | |
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| Media and Culture | |
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| Reference Section | |
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| How to Produce a Play | |
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| How to Write a Dramatic Script | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Photo Credits | |