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The Enjoyment of Theatre

ISBN: 9780205174348 | 0205174345
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Pub. Date: 1/1/1996

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Table of Contents
PART I THEATRE AND ITS AUDIENCE3(76)
CHAPTER 1 THEATRE: PERFORMING ART
5(19)
Life and Theatre
6(1)
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Performance and Theatre
7(3)
Art and Theatre
10(2)
Theatre as Performing Art
12(10)
Current Issues
22(1)
Key Terms
23(1)
CHAPTER 2 THEATRE: ART, AUDIENCE, AND SOCIETY
24(16)
Social Art
25(2)
Social Audience
27(5)
Traits, Desires, and Responses of Theatre Audiences
32(5)
Current Issues
37(2)
Key Terms
39(1)
CHAPTER 3 HOW TO READ A PLAY
40(19)
Preliminary Work
41(3)
Play Analysis Using Parts of Play
44(11)
Organizing a Response
55(2)
Current Issues
57(1)
Key Terms
58(1)
CHAPTER 4 HOW TO SEE A PLAY
59(20)
Preliminary Work
61(2)
Performance Analysis
63(11)
Organizing a Response
74(2)
Current Issues
76(1)
Key Terms
77(2)
PART II TODAY'S THEATRE AND ITS MAKERS79(138)
CHAPTER 5 MAKING THEATRE TODAY: THE CONTEXT
81(19)
Theatre Spaces
82(3)
Producing Situations in the United States
85(11)
Theatre Funding
96(1)
Current Issues
97(2)
Key Terms
99(1)
CHAPTER 6 THE PLAYWRIGHT
100(14)
The Nature of Playwrights and Playwriting
101(1)
Creating Playwrights
102(3)
Training Playwrights
105(2)
From Page to Stage: Professional Issues
107(5)
What is Good Playwriting?
112(1)
Current Issues
113(1)
CHAPTER 7 THE ACTOR
114(30)
The Nature of Acting
115(6)
Training Actors
121(15)
Audition, Rehearsal, Performance
136(3)
The Personality of the Actor
139(1)
What is Good Acting?
140(2)
Current Issues
142(1)
Key Terms
143(1)
CHAPTER 8 THE DIRECTOR
144(38)
The Nature of Directing
145(6)
The Director at Work
151(26)
Training Directors
177(1)
What is Good Directing?
178(2)
Current Issues
180(1)
Key Terms
181(1)
CHAPTER 9 THE DESIGN TEAM: SCENERY, LIGHTING, AND COSTUMES
182(22)
The Design Team
183(1)
The Nature of Design
184(5)
Designers at Work
189(9)
Training Designers
198(2)
What is Good Design?
200(2)
Current Issues
202(1)
Key Terms
203(1)
CHAPTER 10 THE MEDIATORS
204(13)
The Theorist
205(3)
The Critic
208(1)
The Dramaturg
209(1)
The Public Relations Specialist
210(1)
The Reviewer
211(1)
Current Issues
212(3)
Key Terms
215(2)
PART III THE THEATRE OF OTHER TIMES AND PLACES217(204)
The Present and the Past217(4)
CHAPTER 11 FACADE STAGES: GREECE AND ROME
221(32)
The Uncertain Origins of Theatre
222(2)
Shared Features of Greek and Roman Theatre
224(1)
The Greek Theatre
225(14)
The Roman Theatre
239(11)
The Period in the Modern Repertory
250(1)
Current Issues
251(1)
Key Terms
252(1)
CHAPTER 12 EMBLEM AND SIMULTANEITY: MIDDLE AGES AND GOLDEN AGES
253(36)
Theatre in the Middle Ages
255(15)
Theatre in the Golden Ages of England and Spain
270(16)
The Period in the Modern Repertory
286(1)
Current Issues
286(2)
Key Terms
288(1)
CHAPTER 13 ILLUSIONISTIC THEATRES I: NEOCLASSICISM AND ITALIANATE STAGING
289(27)
Theatre in Italy (1550-1750)
290(1)
Theatre in France (1550-1750)
300(7)
Theatre in England (1660-1750)
307(5)
Theatre in America, c. 1750
312(1)
The Period in the Modern Repertory
312(2)
Current Issues
314(1)
Key Terms
315(1)
CHAPTER 14 ILLUSIONISTIC THEATRES II: ROMANTICISM, COMMERCIALISM, AND REALISM
316(39)
Romanticism
317(11)
Post-Romanticism: Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Theatre
328(2)
Commercial Theatres (c. 1850-1900)
330(4)
Realism
334(11)
Commercial Theatre and Some Alternatives in the United States (1900-1960)
345(7)
The Period in the Modern Repertory
352(1)
Current Issues
353(1)
Key Terms
354(1)
CHAPTER 15 REACTIONS AGAINST REALISM: THE AVANT GARDE, 1890s-1960s
355(17)
Background
356(2)
Impressionism
358(1)
Symbolism
359(1)
Expressionism
360(1)
Constructivism
361(1)
Absurdism
362(2)
Brecht and Artaud
364(4)
The Avant Garde in the Modern Repertory
368(1)
Current Issues
369(2)
Key Terms
371(1)
CHAPTER 16 CHANGING WORLD, ECLECTIC THEATRE: 1960s-1990s
372(20)
Theatre, 1960s-1990s
374(14)
The Period in the Modern Repertory
388(1)
Current Issues
389(2)
Key Terms
391(1)
CHAPTER 17 WORLD THEATRE
392(29)
Background
393(5)
Africa
398(6)
The Islamic World
404(2)
The East
406(11)
Current Issues
417(2)
Key Terms
419(2)
Glossary421(24)
Index445

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