The History of World Theater: From the English Restoration to the PresentFelicia Londre explores the world of theater as diverse as the Entertainments of the Stuart court and Arthur Miller directing Chinese actors at the Beijing People's Art Theater in "Death of a Salesman." Londre examines: Restoration comedies; the Comedie Francais; Italian "opera seria"; plays of the "Surm und Grand" movement; Russian, French, and Spanish Romantic dramas; American minstrel shows; Brecht and dialectical theater; Dighilev; Dada; Expressionism, Theater of the Absurd productions, and other forms of experimental theater of the late-20th century.> |
Contents
The Stuart Court and Restoration England | 1 |
THE COMMONWEALTH PERIOD | 10 |
THEATER COMPANIES | 16 |
RESTORATION AUDIENCES | 25 |
A CHANGING REPERTOIRE | 37 |
RESTORATION ACTORS AND ACTRESSES | 43 |
FRANCE AND ENGLAND ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT | 49 |
ITALIAN OPERA FAIR THEATERS AND THEIR MUSICAL OFFSHOOTS | 57 |
NATURALISM | 350 |
THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE | 359 |
TURNOFTHECENTURY FRIVOLITY | 374 |
Pluralism and Experimentation | 384 |
FUTURISM DADA AND SURREALISM | 392 |
EXPRESSIONISM | 403 |
THE SOVIET GOLDEN AGE | 411 |
BRECHT AND DIALECTICAL THEATER | 430 |
ENGLISH THEATER UNTIL THE LICENSING ACT OF 1737 | 70 |
TWO GIANTS AND A NEW GENRE | 78 |
THEATER ARCHITECTURE AND PRODUCTION VALUES | 98 |
THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF RUSSIAN THEATER | 130 |
THE GROWTH AND REBIRTH OF GERMAN THEATER | 138 |
THEATER AND DRAMA IN NORTH AMERICA | 160 |
BEAUMARCHAIS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | 173 |
The Romantic Impulse and Popular Offshoots | 190 |
PANORAMAS | 198 |
AMERICAN MELODRAMA | 206 |
ROMANTICISM IN THE THEATER | 214 |
THE VAUDEVILLE AND OTHER PLEASURES | 258 |
Realism and Naturalism | 285 |
AN INTERNATIONAL ART | 312 |
INNOVATORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE | 326 |
THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD | 438 |
THE POLISH AVANTGARDE | 445 |
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OTHER EXPERIMENTAL WORK SINCE the 1960s | 457 |
Currents in the Mainstream | 470 |
98 27 POSTWAR AND POSTFRANCO | 482 |
MAINSTREAM MAVERICKS | 489 |
DECENTRALIZATION OF THE THEATER | 513 |
FROM SOCIALIST REALISM TO PERESTROIKA IN THE USSR | 544 |
INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED DIRECTORS | 553 |
Converging Theaters around the Globe | 564 |
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