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acting area actor-managers actors ADOLPH APPIA appear Appia art of theatre artist Athenian audience auditorium bear-baiting became become began beginning booth stage built Burbage called ceremonies Chapter characters Chinese church classical Cockpit-in-Court Comédie Française comedy Commedia Commedia dell'Arte companies convention costumed player Covent Garden Craig curtain dance designed dialogue Dionysus director doors drama Drury Lane early effects Elizabethan playhouse Elizabethan theatre England English entertainment Europe example festivals forestage front gallery Garrick Globe Greek illusion impresario Inigo Jones James Burbage kind later lighting London managers mask masque medieval Molière Moscow Art Theatre mystery play National Theatre nineteenth century orchestra original painted performance period playwrights practical produced proscenium Rangda realistic religion religious ritual Roman theatre roof rostra scene scenery scenic area seating Shakespeare side simply skena skill sometimes space story style symbolic theatre arts theatre buildings Theatre Royal theatre-in-the-round tradition tragedy Vitruvius writers