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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 by Robert Edmund Jones | |
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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 by Victor Turner | |
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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 by Aristotle | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Forum: General Considerations of Theatrical Entertainment in China by Tao Ching Hsu | |
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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 by Northrup Frye | |
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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 by Constantin Stanislavsky | |
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| The Playwright | |
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| Forum: Some Thoughts on Playwriting by Thornton Wilder | |
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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 by Jo Mielziner | |
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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 | |
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| Ode to Oedipus by Tyrone Guthrie | |
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| Guthrie Directs 'Ritual' Performance of Oedipus Rex at Edinburgh Fecircte | |
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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. 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 by Tao-Ching Hsu | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Notilde;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 Notilde;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. The Middle Ag<$$$> | |