Living Theater: An Introduction to Theater HistoryCovers the history of Theater from early Greek through to modern Western, Asian and Black theater.; Shakespeare's theatre - Ch. 6. The theater of the English Renaissance. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Theater of the English Restoration | 8 |
The Theater of the Eighteenth Century | 9 |
Copyright | |
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1875-YEARS OF CHANGE acting actors Aeschylus American Aristotle artists Athens audience became Bertolt Brecht BLACK THEATERS Brecht Broadway century B.C. CHAPTER characters chorus church classical Greek comedy comic commedia commedia dell'arte contemporary costumes critics culture cycle plays dance developed Dionysus director dramatist EARLY THEATER eighteenth century elements Elizabethan employed England English Renaissance ENGLISH RESTORATION entertainments example festival FOUR THE MODERN France French Greece Greek theater Hellenistic Italian Renaissance kabuki London MEDIEVAL THEATER melodrama Menaechmi Middle Ages MODERN THEATER Molière morality play Moscow Art Theater musical neoclassical nineteenth century opera orchestra performers period Plautus playhouse playwright plot political popular presented production proscenium realistic religious drama Restoration Roman theater Rome satyr play scene scenery scenic Shakespeare skene social society Sophocles Spanish Golden Age story techniques theater buildings THEATER FROM 1660 theatrical THREE THE THEATER tion traditional tragedy tragic troupe western theater writing wrote