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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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| Why Theatre | |
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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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| Key Terms | |
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| Theatre: the Performing Audience: Three Roles | |
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| Window on the World | |
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| Theatre as Art: the Role of the Audience | |
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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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| Seeing versus Reading | |
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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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| Experiencing the Performance | |
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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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| Mediating the Art and Business of Theatre | |
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| Mediators of Theatre Art | |
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| Mediators of Theatre Business | |
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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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| Theatrical Venues in the United States | |
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| Amateur Theatre | |
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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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| Sources of Plays and Playwrights | |
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| Playwrights and their Culture | |
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| The Playwright's Career | |
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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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| 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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| Facade Stages (534 B.C.E. - c.550 C.E.) | |
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| The Theatre of Greece | |
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| Background | |
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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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| Key Terms | |
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| The Theatre of Rome | |
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| Background | |
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| Roman Festivals and Theatre | |
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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 Eastern (Byzantine) Empire and Theatre | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Emblem, Environment, and Simultaneity (c. 950 - c. 1650) | |
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| Theatre in the Middle Ages | |
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| Background | |
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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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| Key Terms | |
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| The Golden Ages of England and Spain | |
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| Background | |
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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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| Mainstream Theatre | |
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| An Alternative Theatre: Commedia dell'Arte | |
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| Ital: Eclipse | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Triumph and Decline of Neoclassicism | |
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| French Theatre | |
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| English Restoration Theatre and Beyond (1660���c. 1750) | |
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| English Theatre in America | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Successful Failure: Theatre and Reform, 1750 the 1950s | |
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| Context | |
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| Three Countries, Two Experiences | |
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| First Wave: Romanticism, 1750���1850 | |
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| Second Wave: Realism, 1850���1950 | |
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| Realism and Naturalism: Three Important Leaders | |
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| Third Wave: Avant-Gardism, 1890���1950 | |
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| Avant-Garde Theatres and Movements | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Rise and Triumph of Commercialism: 1750 - 1950s | |
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| Context | |
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| Commercial Theatre | |
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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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| Key Terms | |
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| Eclectic Theatre, c. 1950-c.2000 | |
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| Context | |
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| Avant-garde Theatre | |
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| The Influence of the Avant-garde | |
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| Professional Theatre | |
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| The decline and Cultural Displacement of Theatre | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| U.S. Theatre, 2000-2010 | |
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| Context | |
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| Theatrical Changes | |
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| A Faded Avant-garde | |
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| Commercial and Not-for-Profit Theatres | |
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| Theatre Trends in the New Millennium | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Global Theatre | |
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| Context | |
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| The East | |
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| The Islamic World | |
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| Africa | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |