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| Preface | |
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| The Theoretical and Practical Foundations of 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 Story Teller | |
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| The Barong or Trance Dance of Bali | |
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| Forum: The Theatre as It Was and as It Is | |
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| A Broadway Musical | |
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| Rituals Versus Theater | |
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| An Autumnal Ritual in America | |
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| Forum: Acting in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Acting | |
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| The Origins of Theater | |
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| Common Ground for Uncommon Cultures | |
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| Center Stage: The Abydos Passion Play | |
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| Reading a Play | |
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| Anonymous, Master Pierre Pathelin | |
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| From Theater 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 | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Forum: General Considerations of Theatrical Entertainment in China | |
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| The Principal Genres of Drama | |
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| Spotlight: Melodrama and Farce | |
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| Forum: The Mythos of Spring: Comedy | |
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| Styles and Conventions | |
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| From the Page to the Stage: Theater Artists at Work | |
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| Choices | |
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| The Actor | |
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| Forum: When Writing Is Art | |
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| The Playwright | |
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| Forum: Some Thoughts on Playwriting | |
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| The Director | |
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| Forum: Julie Taymor on Directing The Lion King | |
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| The Designers | |
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| Forum: Designing a Play: Death of A Salesman | |
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| The Critic | |
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| An Anthology of the World's Drama | |
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| The Theater of Greece and Rome Greece | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Origins of the Theater in Greece | |
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| Spotlight: The Hellenistic Theater | |
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| The Greek Mind | |
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| Playwrights and Acting | |
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| Spotlight: The Conventions of Greek Theater | |
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| Aeshylus, Prometheus Bound | |
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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 F�te | |
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| Euripides, Medea | |
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| Aristophanes, Lysistrata | |
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| Spotlight: Greek Old Comedy | |
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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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| Terence, Brothers | |
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| Forum: The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica) | |
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| The Theater of India, China, and Japan | |
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| India | |
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| The Origins of Indian Drama | |
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| Forum: from The Natyasastra | |
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| The Types of Indian Drama | |
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| The Conventions of 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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| Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office | |
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| Forum: The Formal Characteristics of Indian Folk Theatre | |
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| China | |
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| The History of Chinese Theatre | |
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| Center Stage: A Night at the Chinese Opera: The Hua-Gu Opera of Hunan | |
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| The Conventions of Chinese Theater | |
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| Ma Chih-yuan, Autumn in the Palace of Han | |
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| Anonymous, The Qing Ding Pearl | |
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| Forum: The World of Chinese Drama | |
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| Japan | |
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| The N�h Theater | |
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| Forum: Style and the Flower from The Kadensho | |
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| Forum: House and Family Suzuki on the N�h Theater | |
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| The Kabuki Theater | |
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| The Contemporary Japanese Theater: Shingeki | |
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| Zeami, Komachi at Sekidira | |
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| Center Stage: The Tanabata Festival of Japan | |
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| Namiki Gohei III, Kanjincho | |
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| Kobo Abe, The Man Who Turned into a Stick | |
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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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| Three Morality Plays | |
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| Anonymous, Everyman | |
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| Anonymous, Mankind | |
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| Anonymous, The Apple Tree | |
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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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| Center Stage: Native American Performance | |
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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 Versus The Romantics | |
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| England | |
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| William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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| Spotlight: Making Shakespeare's Language User-Friendly | |
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| Center Stage: The Midsummer Festivals of Europe | |
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| Center Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre | |
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| Forum Four Reviews: A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1853 | |
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| A Review of A Midsummer Nights's Dream | |
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| Moonbeams and Menaces | |
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| Shakespeare as Carnival in Amazonean 'Dream' | |
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| William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
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| Spotlight: Shakespeare's Two Theaters | |
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| Spain and the Americas | |
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| Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life's a Dream | |
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| Spotlight: The Spanish Theater: The Corrales | |
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| Center Stage: Theater in Mesoamerica | |
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| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, The Divine Narcissus | |
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| Center Stage: The Yaqui Easter of the Southwest United States | |
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| France | |
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| Moli�re Tartuffe | |
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| Center Stage: The French Theater | |
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| Center Stage: The (Third) Opening Night of Tartuffe | |
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| Tartuffe at the Th��ter du Soleil, 1995 | |
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| Spotlight: The Secret Life of a Con Man: Antony Sher on Playing 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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| The Conventions of the Restoration Theater | |
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| Sentimental Comedy | |
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| Forum: A Comparison Between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy | |
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| Laughing Comedy | |
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| Bourgeois Tragedy | |
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| Forum: Dedication to The London Merchant | |
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| Aphra Behn, The Rover | |
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| Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer | |
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| The Modern Theater | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| The Melodrama | |
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| The Romantic Revolution and Hernani | |
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| Victor Hugo, Hernani | |
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| George Aikin (adapted from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe) | |