Living theatre : history of the theatre
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Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, ©2008.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Clues to theatre's origins : theatre in everyday life
Imitation, role playing, and storytelling
Popular entertainment
Ceremonies and rituals
The Abydos Ritual in ancient Egypt
Indigenous Latin American ritual
Nontheatrical elements of ceremonies and rituals
"Participatory" theatre
Prohibition of theatre
How historians reconstruct the elements of theatre
A playing space
The audience
The performers
visual elements
Texts
Coordination of the elements
Social requirements
The study of theatre history
Traditional chronological narratives
Recent historical approaches
Revisionist historians
Feminist historians
Deconstructionists
Multicultural historians
Gay and lesbian theatre historians
Marxist and class-oriented historians
Why study theatre history?
How do scholars study theatre history?
Where do theatre historians present their work?
Theatre in history : points to remember
pt. I. Early theatres
1. Greek theatre
Background : the Golden Age of Greece
Origins : Greek theater emerges
Theatre in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
Greek theatre and Greek religion
Festivals and the City Dionysia
Debates in theatre history : did women attend dramatic festivals?
Greek theater and Greek myths
Greek tragedy
Tragic playwrights
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
The Chorus
Aristotle and the tragic form Aristotle
Climactic drama
King Oedipus
Antigone
Satyr plays
Old comedy
Aristophanes
Greek theatre production
The theatre building
Debates in theatre history : the Greek stage
Scenery and special effects
Acting in Greek theatre
Costumes and masks
Theatre in the Hellenistic Age
Hellenistic theatres
Hellenistic acting
The rise of the actor
Social position of actors
Mimes
New comedy
Menander
2. Roman theatre
Background : the Republic and the Empire
The development of Roman theatre : popular influences
Roman comedy
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
The Menaechmi
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Roman tragedy
Debates in theatre history : was Terence the first Black playwright?
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Dramatic criticism in Rome
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Theatre production in Rome
Actors and acting companies
theatre buildings and scenic elements
Popular entertainment in Rome
The decline of Roman theatre
3. Early Asian theatres
Background : the theatres of Asia
Indian theatre
Sanskrit drama
Kalidasa
Later Indian drama
Chinese theatre
Early theatre in China
Theatre in the Yuan Dynasty
Important plays from the Yuan Period
theatre production in the Yuan Period
Debates in theatre history : did playwrights in the Yuan Period create tragedies?
theatre in the Ming Dynasty
Li Yu
Later Chinese theatre
Japanese theatre
Early theatre in Japan
Nō Zeami Motokiyo
Characteristics of Nō theatre
Producing Nō theatre
Bunraku
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Kabuki
Origins of Kabuki : Okuni of Izumo
Development of Kabuki
Producing Kabuki
Southeast Asia : shadow plays
4. Medieval Theatres in Europe
Background : the Middle Ages
Byzantium : popular arts and theatrical preservation
the Middle Ages in Western Europe
Hrosvitha
Liturgical drama
Development of medieval liturgical drama
Debates in theatre history : why was Hrosvitha ignored for so long?
Producing liturgical drama
Debates in theatre history : the origins of Medieval theatre and the role of Quem Quaeritis
Early Medieval theatre in France
The development of religious vernacular drama
Mystery or cycle plays
The Second Shepherds' Play
The emergency of episodic form
Producting the cycle plays
Performers
Costumes
Pageant masters
Stages
Secrets : early experiments with technology
Morality plays
Everyman
Producing morality plays
Secular theatre in the Middle Ages : popular forms
The decline of religious theatre.
pt. II. Theatres of the renaissance
5. The theatre of the Italian Renaissance
Background : the Renaissance in Italy
Italian theatre
Drama
Tragedies and comedies
Debates in theatre history : adaptations as sources of drama
Intermezzi and pastorals
Opera
Commedia dell' Arte : a popular theatrical form
Conventions of Commedia dell' Arte
Commedia companies
I Gelosi
Influence of Commedia dell' Arte
Debates in theatre history : women performers in Commedia dell' Arte
Italian theatre architecture
Theatre buildings
Teatro Olimpico
the theatre at Sabbioneta
Teatro Farnese and the proscenium stage
Audience seating
Scene design and early theatre technology
Perspective in scene design
Debates in theatre history : what is the exact origin of the proscenium arch?
Sebastiano Serlio
Advances in scenic techniques : from Serlio to Torelli
Giacomo Torelli
Special effects and lighting
Italian dramatic criticism
The Neoclassical ideals
Decorum and verisimilitude
The unities : time, place, and action
Genre and other rules
the Neoclassicists' influence
Issues of dramatic criticism
The nature of criticism : descriptive and prescriptive criticism
The nature of drama : should theatre be didactic?
The form of drama : Neoclassical structure
The legacy of the Italian Renaissance
6. The theatre of the English Renaissance
Background : the Renaissance in England
The early drama of the English Renaissance
Elizabethan drama
Elizabethan playwrights
Marlowe and the Might Line
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's skill and diversity
Debates in theatre history : who wrote Shakespeare's plays?
Elizabethan theatres
Theatres and production practices : problems of research
Public or outdoor theatres
Audience seating in public theatres
The stage in public theatres
The Tiring House
Influences on the public theatres
Private theatres
Debates in theatre history : the campaign to save The Rose
Scenery and costumes
Elizabethan acting companies
The Lord Chamberlains' Men
The Lord Admiral's Men
Organization of acting companies
Acting practices
Debates in theatre history : Elizabethan acting style
Representation of female characters in Elizabethan theatre
Jacobean and Caroline drama
Ben Jonson and "Comedy of Humours"
John Webster
Beaumont and Fletcher
Court entertainment : the masque
Inigo Jones
The theatre of the Spanish Golden Age
Background : the Spanish Golden Age
Religious theatre in Spain
Religious dramas : Autos Sacramentales
Producing Autos Sacramentales
Secular theatre in Spain
Lope de Rueda
Secular dramas : comedias
Spanish dramatists
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Female playwrights
Producing the comedias
The Corrales
scenery, the State, and costumes
Debates in theatre history : what was the appearance of the Corral del Principe?
Acting companies
The status of actresses
Debates in theatre history : a lost Spanish popular entertainment?
8. French Neoclassical theatre
Background : France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
French drama
Early drama, popular theatre, and pageantry
Neoclassical drama
Establishing the Neoclassical ideals
Pierre Corneille
Jean Racine : the triumph of the Neoclassical ideals
Molière : Neoclassical comedy
Ballet at Court
Theatre production in France
Architecture, scenery, and technology
Acting
Acting companies
The Comédie Franc̜aise
Debates in theatre history : should we envy Europe's National theatres
Performers
Michel Baron
Armande Béjart
Audiences.
pt. III. Theatres from 1660 to 1875
9. The theatre of the English Restoration
Background : The Restoration
Theatre during the Commonwealth
The Theatre of the Restoration begins
William Devenant and Thomas Killigrew
Restoration drama
Serious drama
Restoration comedy
Comedies of Intrigue
Aphra Behn
Comedies of Manners
William Wycherley
William Congreve
The female wits
Restoration audiences
Performers
Actresses and actors
Eleanor (Nell) Gwynn
Thomas Betterton
Anne Bracegirdle
Acting companies
Restoration theatres
Government and the theatres
Theatre architecture in the Restoration
Scenery, scene-shifting technology, costumes, and lighting
Debates in theatre history : The Dorset Garden Theatre
The decline of Restoration comedy : the transition to the Eighteenth Century
Susanna Centlivre
George Farquhar
Threads in theatre history
The Drury Lane Theatre
10. Theatres in the Eighteenth Century
Background : the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-Century drama
Middle-class tragedy
Denis Diderot
New popular forms : ballad opera and comic opera
Sentimental comedy and Comédie Larmoyante
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
Modifications of sentimentality
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Storm and Stress
Realism and antirealism in Commedia dell' Arte
Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi
Melodrama : a popular genre emerges
Theatre production in the Eighteenth Century
Government and theatre
Regulation of theatres in England
Covent Garden
Regulation of theatres in France
Government and theatre in Germany
Theatre buildings
Theatres in Europe
Theatres in America
The Hallam Family
Scenery
The Bibiena Family
Scenic and technical experiments
Debates in theatre history : when was the Box Set introduced?
Costumes
Acting
Charles Macklin
Acting styles
Dumesnil and Clairon
Acting companies
Status of performers
Caroline Neuber
The emergence of the director
David Garrick
Debates in theatre history : who was the first director?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Theatres from 1800 to 1875
Background : the Nineteenth Century
Theatre in Nineteenth-Century life
Popular entertainment
Debates in theatre history : is popular entertainment worthy of serious study?
Audiences
Theatre riots
Theatre and Nationalism
Anna Cora Mowatt
Nineteenth-Century drama
Romanticism
Melodrama
The Well-Made Play
Nineteenth-Century theatre production
Acting styles
Edmund Kean and Charles Kean
The Kembles
William Charles Macready
Acting theory : Delsarte
The acting profession
Touring
Ira Aldridge
The long run and the decline of repertory companies
The rise of the star
Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse
Steps toward directing
Actor-managers and playwright-managers
Laura Keene
Two early directors
Richard Wagner
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Theatre architecture
Booth's Theatre
Edwin Booth
Wagner's Festspielhaus
Scenery, costuming, and lighting
Historical accuracy
The Box Set
Madame Vestris : Lucia Elizabetta Bartolozzi
New technology
Theatre in Russia.
pt. IV. Modern theatres
12. Theatres from 1875 to 1915
Background : the turn of the century
The emergence of Realism
Realistic drama
What is Realism?
Henrik Ibsen : the founder of Realism
Ibsen's realism : A Doll's House
Naturalistic drama
Producers of Realism and Naturalism
Théâtre Libre
Freie Bühne
The Independent Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
Moscow Art Theatre
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Realistic acting
Konstantin Sergeivich Stanislavski : the pioneer
The Stanislavskian Technique
Stanislavski and psychophysical action
Visual elements in Realistic Theatre
Early departures from Realism
Symbolism
Departures from Realism : Wedekind, Ibsen, and Strindberg
August Strindberg
Producing departures from Realism
Theatre companies
Designers
Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig
Antirealism directors : Meyerhold
Vsevelod Emilievich Meyerhold
Meyerhold's Theatricalist experiments
Eclectics
Commercial and popular theatre
Debates in theatre history : are women's contributions to theatre history overlooked?
Henry Irving
International theatres 1875-1915
Asian theatres
Peking (Beijing) Opera : a Nineteenth-century development
Theatre in India
Rabindranath Tagore
Theatre in China
Theatre in Japan
The emerging American theatre
American playwrights after 1875
African American theatre
African American stock companies : the Lafayette Players
African Americans in popular theatre
13. Theatres from 1915 to 1945
Background : a time of unrest, the World Wars
Theatres of unrest : dramatic movements
Expressionism
Expressionistic directors
Futurism and Dada
Surrealism
Theatre of Cruelty
Antonin Artaud
Epic theatre
Piscator and the The Good Soldier Schweik
Brecht's epic theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Mother courage and Her Children
European theatres during the war years
France
Copeau and text-oriented theatre
Jacques Copeau
Giraudoux and Anouilh
Spain
Federico García Lorca
Italy
Luigi Pirandello
Great Britain
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, and John Gielgud
Theatres under Totalitarianism
Debates in theatre history : evaluating Totalitarian art
International theatres, 1915-1945
Asian theatres
Mei Lanfang
Kathakali in India
Theatre in China
Theatre in Japan
American theatre
Noncommercial drama and theatre in the United States
Eva Le Gallienee
Playwrights in the United States
Eugene O'Neill
Women playwrights in the United States
The "Little Theatre" Movement
The Group Theatre
Stella Adler
The Federal Theatre Project
College and university theatres
African American theatre
Ethel Waters
African American theatre in the 1930s and 1940s
Paul Robeson
14. Theatres from 1945 to 1975
Background : the postwar world, a time of social upheaval
Postwar experimental theatres
Existentialism
Theatre of the Absurd
Absurdist drama
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Eugène Ionesco
Harold Pinter
Directors of Absurdist drama
Happenings and multimedia
Environmental theatre
Jerzy Grotowski
Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Paratheatrical experiments
Postwar realistic drama
Selective Realism
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Edward Albee
Angry young playwrights
Documentary drama
Postwar eclectics
Peter Brook
New technology
Josef Svoboda
Postwar developments in American theatre
Musical theatre
Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway
The Living Theatre
Ellen Stewart and Joseph Papp
Regional theatre
African American theatre
African American theatre in the 1950s
Lorraine Hansberry
Civil Rights and African American militancy : 1960-1970
Amiri Baraka
African American producing organizations
15. Contemporary theatre in the United States : 1975 to the present
Background : worldwide changes since 1975
Dramatists of diversity
Gender diversity
Maria Irene Fornes
Diversity of cultural and sexual orientation
Contemporary African American playwrights
August Wilson
Latino-Latina American theatre
Luis Valdéz
Asian American theatre
Native American theatre
Gay and Lesbian Theatre
Charles Ludlam
Other American dramatists
Sam Shepard
David Mamet
Musical theatre
Stephen Sondheim
Alternative theatre
Richard Schechner and t he Performance Group
The Wooster Group
Mabou Mines
Other alternative groups and playwrights
Alternative American directors
Richard Foreman and Robert Wilson
Des McAnuff, Peter Sellars, and Anne Bogart
Established theatre companies
American regional theatres : traditional and new
Transformations in established American theatre companies
Performance Art
Anna Deavere Smith
Debates in theatre history : can theatre survive in the new millennium?
16. Global theatres
Globalization and theatre
European theatres
British and Irish playwrights
Caryl Churchill
German and Italian dramatists
European directors
Tadeusz Kantor
Ariane Mnouchkine
Transformations in government-subsidized European theatres
Canada and Australia since World War II
African theatres and drama
Wole (Oluwole Akinwande) Soyinka
Latin American theatres
Augusto Boal
Cultural interchange in Asian theatres
Theatres in India, China, and Japan since World War II
Theatres in the Middle East
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Published
Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, ©2008.
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Edition
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Includes bibliographical references (pages b1-b11) and index.
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Wilson, E., & Goldfarb, A. (2008). Living theatre: history of the theatre (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Edwin, 1927- and Alvin. Goldfarb. 2008. Living Theatre: History of the Theatre. McGraw-Hill.
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