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| The Theoretical And Practical Foundations Of The Theater | |
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| Stories, Rituals, and Theater: A Foundation for the Theatrical Arts | |
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| The Theatrical Impulse | |
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| The Storyteller | |
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| Forum: "The Theater as It Was and Is" | |
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| The Balinese Barong | |
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| A Broadway Musical | |
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| Rituals vs. Theatre | |
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| An American Football Game | |
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| Center Stage: "The Abydos Passion Play." | |
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| The Origins of Theatre | |
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| Common Ground for Uncommon Cultures | |
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| Reading a Play | |
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| Susan Glaspell: TRIFLES | |
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| From Theatre to Drama | |
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| The Dramatic Impulse | |
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| The Poetics of Aristotle | |
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| Forum: "from The Poetics" by Aristotle | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| The Principal Genres of Drama | |
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| Spotlight: "Melodrama and Farce." | |
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| Styles and Conventions | |
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| An Anthology Of Western Drama: From The Ancient To The Contemporary Theater | |
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| The Theatre of Greece and Rome | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Origins of Theater in Greece | |
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| Spotlight: "The Hellenistic Theatre." | |
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| The Greek Mind | |
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| Playwrights and Acting | |
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| Spotlight: "The Conventions of Greek Theatre." | |
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| Sophocles, Oedipus The King | |
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| Spotlight: The Curse on the House of Thebes | |
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| Center Stage: The First Performance of Oedipus the King | |
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| Center Stage: Oedipus the King at the Teatro Olympico, 1585 | |
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| Forums: "Ode to Oedipus" | |
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| "Guthrie Directs 'Ritual' Performance of Oedipus Rex at Edinburgh Fete" | |
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| Spotlight: "Greek Old Comedy and Aristophanes's Lysistrata. " | |
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| Rome | |
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| The Development of Roman Theater | |
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| Playwrights and Popular Entertainments | |
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| Theaters and Acting | |
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| The Fall of Rome | |
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| The Early Modern Theater | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| Rites and Folk Drama | |
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| Religious Drama | |
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| Performance Conventions | |
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| Anonymous, The Brome Play Of Abraham And Isaac | |
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| Anonymous, Everyman | |
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| The European Renaissance | |
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| The Renaissance Mind | |
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| Center Stage: "The Commedia dell'arte." | |
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| The Need for Order | |
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| Center Stage: The Masque | |
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| Hierarchies on Stage and Off | |
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| The Role of Tragedy | |
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| Playhouses and Scenery | |
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| Acting | |
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| Playwriting: The Neoclassicists vs. the Romantics | |
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| England | |
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| Hamlet | |
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| Spotlight: "Making Shakespeare's Language User-Friendly." | |
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| Center Stage: "Shakespeare's Two Theatres." | |
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| Center Stage: Hamlet at the Globe Theatre, 1601 | |
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| Forums: (Three Reviews) "Hamlet: Picturesque and Refined" | |
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| Calhoun | |
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| "Theater: Richard Burton as Hamlet" | |
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| "Shakespeare a la Russe: Kozintsev's Hamlet" | |
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| Spain | |
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| Spotlight: The Spanish Theater: The Corrales | |
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| France | |
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| Moliere, Tartuffe | |
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| Spotlight: The French Theater Tartuffe in Performance | |
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| Center Stage: The (Third) Opening Night of Tartuffe | |
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| Center Stage: Tartuffe at the Teatre du Soliel, 1995 | |
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| Spotlight: The Secret Life of a Con Man: Antony Sher on Playing | |
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| Tartuffe (An Interview by Francesca Simon) | |
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| The Late-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Spotlight: The Comedy of Manners | |
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| Spotlight: The Conventions of Restoration Theater | |
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| Sentimental Comedy | |
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| Laughing Comedy | |
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| Bouregois Tragedy | |
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| The Modern Theatre | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| The Melodrama | |
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| The Romantic Revolution and Hernani | |
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| Spotlight: America's Greatest Hit: Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Spotlight: The Minstrel Show | |
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| Realism and Naturalism | |
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| The Well-Made Play | |
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| Influences on Realism | |
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| The Problem Play | |
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| The Rise of the Director | |
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| Naturalism | |
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| The Fathers of Realism: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov | |
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| Intimate Theatres | |
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| The Second Generation of Realists | |
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| A Doll's House | |
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| Center Stage: The Tarantella and Other Healing Dances | |
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| The Cherry Orchard | |
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| Expressionism and the Epic Theatre | |
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| Expressionism | |
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| The Epic Theater | |
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| Spotlight: Theater in the Industrial Age | |
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| The Good Woman Of Setzuan | |
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| Death Of A Salesman | |
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| Forum: "Tragedy and the Common Man" | |
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| Forums (Three Reviews) | |
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| Death of a Salesman: Powerful Tragedy" | |
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| "Even as You and I" | |
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| "Willy Loman Gets China Territory" | |
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| Absurdism | |
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| Waiting for Godot: The Modern Masterpiece." | |
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| The American Dream | |
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| The Contemporary Theatre | |
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| Influences on Contemporary Theater | |
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| Postmodernism and the Theater | |
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| Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty | |
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| Theater Collectives and Aletrnative Theater | |
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| Acting in Contemporary Plays | |
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| Contemporary Dramatic Criticism: Deconstructionism and Others | |
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| Top Girls | |
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| Angels In America, Part One: Millenium Approaches | |
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| Forum: "Embracing All Possibilities in Art and Life" | |
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| Forum: from "Tony Kushner Considers the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness" | |
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| An Introduction To Non-Western Theater: Asia, Africa And The African Diaspora, And Latin America | |
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| The Theatre of Asia | |
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| India | |
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| The Origins of Indian Drama | |
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| The Types of Indian Drama | |
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| The Conventions of the Classical Indian Theater | |
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| Dance and Folk Drama in India | |
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| The Modern Theater of India | |
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| The Recognition of Sakuntala: India's Masterpiece." | |
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| China | |
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| The History of Chinese Theatre The Peking Opera | |
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| Center Stage: "Spring Festival in China." | |
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| The Conventions of Chinese Theatre | |
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| Center Stage: "A Night at the Hua-gu Opera." | |
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| Anonymous, The Qing Ding Pearl | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Noh Theater | |
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| Center Stage: "The Tanabata Festival of Japan." | |
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| The Kabuki Theatre | |
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| The Contempiorary Japanese Theater: Shingeki | |
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| Namiki Gohei III, Kanjincho | |
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| African and the African Diaspora | |
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| Africa | |
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| The Roots of African Theatre | |
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| Postcolonial Drama in Africa | |
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| The Conventions of African Theatre | |
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| Center Stage: South African Township Theater | |
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| Master Harold...and the boys | |
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| Spotlight: "South Africa's Market Market Theater and the Independent Theater Phenomenon." | |
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| Death And The King's Horseman | |
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| Center Stage: "Yoruban Obatala Festival in Ede, Nigeria, West Africa." | |
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| African-American Theatre | |
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| The Development of African American Theater | |
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| A Raisin in the Sun: America in Transition." | |
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| August Wilson, FENCES | |
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| The Caribbean | |
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| Cuba | |
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| Puerto Rico | |
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| Haiti and Jamaica | |
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| Trinidad-Tobago | |
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| TI-Jean And His Brothers | |
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| Center Stage: "The Trinidad Carnival." | |
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| Latin American Theater | |
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| The Development Latin American Theater | |
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| Spotlight: "Popular Theater in Latin America." | |
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| Center Stage: "The Theatre of Mesoamerica." | |
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| The Divine Narcissus | |
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| Center Stage: "The Yaqui Easter." | |
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| No Saco Nada De La Escuela | |
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| A Solid Home | |
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| Center Stage: "El Dia de los Muertos in Mexico." | |
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| Paper Flowers | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The Student as Critic | |
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| The Production Review | |
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| Critical Essays | |
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| A Few Technical Notes | |
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| General Questions About a Play in Performance | |
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| Sample Outline for a Critical Essay on Ti-Jean and His Brothers | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Text Credits | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |