Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
Note on Dates | x | ||||
Introduction | xi | ||||
What Is Drama? | xi | ||||
Dramatic Conventions Then and Now | xii | ||||
Cultural Context | xiii | ||||
Page versus Stage | xiv | ||||
The Parts of a Play | xvi | ||||
Plot | xvi | ||||
Character | xix | ||||
Spectacle | xxi | ||||
Symbolism | xxiii | ||||
Tragedy | xxv | ||||
Comedy | xxviii | ||||
Major Moments in the History of Theater | xxix | ||||
Greek Theater | xxix | ||||
Elizabethan Theater | xxxii | ||||
Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Theater | xxxv | ||||
The Provincetown Players | xxxvi | ||||
Contemporary American Theater | xxxviii | ||||
Regional Theaters | xl | ||||
Conclusion | xl | ||||
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Glossary | 541 | (6) | |||
Permissions Acknowledgments | 547 |
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