History of the theatre 8th edition

Music and Dance. Costumes and Masks. Stages and Staging. Auditorium and Audience. Athenian Theatre after the Fifth Century. Hellenistic and Roman Theatre. The Hellenistic Theatre. Dramatic Theory. New Comedy. Actors and Acting. Theatre Architecture. Greek Mimes. The Roman Theatre. Etruscan and Oscan Antecedents. The Roman Context. Roman Festivals. Drama under the Roman Republic. Drama under the Roman Empire. Production Arrangements.

Roman Theatre Architecture. Masks and Costumes. The Decline of the Theatre in Rome. Sanskrit Drama. Sanskrit Performance. The Development of Chinese Literary Drama. Early Professional Theatre in Japan. The Byzantine Theatre. The Rise of Islam. Western European Theatre. The Theatre, to C.

Monastery Theatre—Liturgical Drama and Comedy. Theatre in the High Middle Ages, to C. The Staging of Liturgical Drama. The Feast of Fools. Nonliturgical Drama. European Theatre in the Late Middle Ages.

Performances outside the Church. The Vernacular Religious Drama. The Stages. Special Effects and Machinery. Audiences and Auditoriums. The Director. Secular Dramatic Forms. The Morality Play. Chambers of Rhetoric. Interludes and the Advent of Professional Acting. Tournaments, Mummings, and Disguisings. Royal Entries and Street Pageants. The End of Medieval Drama. English Theatre to Early Tudor Drama. The University Wits. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists.

Government Regulation of the Theatre. Theatrical Conditions. The Public Theatres. The Private Theatres. Scenery, Properties, Special Effects, and Music. Court Plays and Masques. The Theatre of Spain and New Spain to The Religious Drama. Secular Drama. Contains extensively revised and rewritten material in Chapter 6 English Theatre from the Middle Ages to in light of new research, revised interpretations of evidence, and the completion of the new Globe Theatre.

Updates Chapter 17 Theatre and Drama after through Refines Chapter 19 The Theatre of Africa to expand coverage and to bring the material up-to-date. Integrates new revisionist scholarship as well as new research, methodologies, plays, and playwrights throughout.

Incorporates contributions from co-author Franklin J. Hildy of the University of Georgia to further broaden the scholarship and detail provided in the text. Previous editions. Sign In We're sorry! Username Password Forgot your username or password? Sign Up Already have an access code?

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