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| Preface | |
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| The Origins of Theatre | |
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| The Theory of Ritual Origin | |
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| Performative Elements and Functions | |
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| Other Theories of Origin | |
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| Ancient Egypt and the Near East | |
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| Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece | |
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| The Origin of Tragedy | |
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| The City Dionysia in the Sixth Century | |
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| Tragedy in the Fifth Century | |
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| The Satyr Play | |
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| Greek Comedy in the Fifth Century | |
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| The Dramatic Festivals of the Fifth Century | |
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| Play Selection and Financing | |
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| Actors and Acting | |
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| The Chorus | |
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| Music and Dance | |
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| Costumes and Masks | |
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| Theatre Architecture | |
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| Auditorium and Audience | |
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| Athenian Theatre after the Fifth Century | |
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| Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine Theatre | |
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| The Hellenistic Theatre | |
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| Dramatic Theory | |
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| New Comedy | |
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| Actors and Acting | |
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| Costumes | |
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| Theatre Architecture | |
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| Greek Mimes | |
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| The Roman Theatre | |
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| Etruscan Antecedents | |
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| The Roman Context | |
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| Roman Festivals | |
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| Drama under the Romans | |
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| Other Entertainments | |
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| Production Arrangements | |
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| Roman Theatre Architecture | |
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| @AHEADS = Other Structures for Entertainments | |
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| Scenery | |
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| Actors and Acting | |
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| Masks and Costumes | |
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| Music | |
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| The Decline of the Theatre in Rome | |
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| Theatre in the Eastern Empire, Byzantium | |
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| The Byzantine Theatre | |
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| The Rise of Islam | |
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| European Theatre in the Middle Ages | |
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| The Theatre, 500 to 900 C.E | |
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| The Liturgical Drama | |
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| The Staging of Liturgical Drama | |
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| The Feast of Fools | |
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| The Late Middle Ages | |
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| Performances outside the Church | |
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| The Vernacular Religious Drama | |
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| Production Arrangements | |
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| The Director | |
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| Actors and Acting | |
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| Costumes | |
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| The Stages | |
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| Scenery | |
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| Special Effects and Machinery | |
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| Music | |
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| Audiences and Auditoriums | |
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| Secular Dramatic Forms | |
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| Farce | |
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| The Morality Play | |
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| Chambers of Rhetoric | |
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| Interludes | |
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| Tournaments, Mummings, and Disguisings | |
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| Royal Entries and Street Pageants | |
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| The End of Medieval Drama | |
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| English Theatre to 1642 | |
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| Early Tudor Drama | |
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| The University Wits | |
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| Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | |
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| Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists | |
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| Government Regulation of the Theatre | |
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| Acting Troupes | |
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| The Public Theatres | |
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| The Private Theatres | |
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| Scenery, Properties, Special Effects, and Music | |
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| Costumes | |
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| Audiences | |
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| The Stuart Court Masques | |
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| Spanish Theatre to 1700 | |
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| The Religious Drama. <p&g | |