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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 | |