The Enjoyment of the Theatre

by Cameron, Kenneth M.; Gillespie, Patti P.

• ISBN13: 9780205295906
• ISBN10: 0205295908
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

The Enjoyment of Theatre continues to bring students the expertise of a proven author team one whose strong academic credentials combine with a wealth of theatre experience to create a text that effectively conveys the importance and excitement of theatre. Both majors and non-majors will find reading this text as enjoyable as the theatre itself. Cameron and Gillespie make theatre come alive for all students in a comprehensive and accessible way. The new edition of this highly successful, audience-oriented text builds on the strong foundation of previous editions. By recognizing both educational and cultural diversity in the 1990's, the authors use their vast knowledge and deep understanding of theatre to span its 2500 plus-year history and to show students how theatre is and will continue to be relevant to their everyday lives.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I Theatre and Its Audience: Theatre Theory and Criticism	1	(78)
Theatre: Performing Art	3	(20)
Life and Theatre	4	(1)
Performance and Theatre	5	(2)
Art and Theatre	7	(3)
Theatre as Performing Art	10	(10)
Current Issues	20	(1)
Key Terms	21	(2)
Theatre: Art, Audience, and Society	23	(16)
Social Audience	24	(10)
Social Art	34	(2)
Current Issues	36	(2)
Key Terms	38	(1)
How to Read a Play	39	(20)
Preliminary Work	41	(2)
Play Analysis Using Parts of the Play	43	(11)
Organizing a Response	54	(3)
Current Issues	57	(1)
Key Terms	58	(1)
How to See a Play	59	(20)
Preliminary Work	61	(2)
Performance Analysis	63	(12)
Organizing a Response	75	(1)
Current Issues	76	(1)
Key Terms	77	(2)
PART II Today's Theatre and Its Makers: Theatre Practice	79	(140)
Making Theatre Today: The Context	81	(20)
Theatre Spaces	82	(3)
Producing Situations in the United States	85	(11)
Theatre Funding	96	(1)
Current Issues	97	(2)
Key Terms	99	(2)
The Playwright	101	(14)
The Nature of Playwrights and Playwriting	102	(1)
Creating Playwrights	103	(3)
Training Playwrights	106	(1)
From Page to Stage: Professional Issues	107	(6)
What Is Good Playwriting?	113	(1)
Current Issues	114	(1)
Key Terms	114	(1)
The Actor	115	(30)
The Nature of Acting	116	(6)
Training Actors	122	(14)
Audition, Rehearsal, and Performance	136	(4)
The Personality of the Actor	140	(2)
What Is Good Acting?	142	(1)
Current Issues	142	(2)
Key Terms	144	(1)
The Director	145	(40)
The Nature of Directing	146	(6)
The Director at Work	152	(27)
Training Directors	179	(1)
What Is Good Directing?	180	(1)
Current Issues	181	(2)
Key Terms	183	(2)
The Design Team: Scenery, Lighting, and Costumes	185	(22)
The Design Team	186	(1)
The Nature of Design	187	(5)
Designers at Work	192	(9)
Training Designers	201	(2)
What Is Good Design?	203	(2)
Current Issues	205	(1)
Key Terms	206	(1)
The Mediators	207	(12)
The Theorist	208	(3)
The Critic	211	(2)
The Dramaturg	213	(1)
The Public Relations Specialist	213	(2)
The Reviewer	215	(1)
Current Issues	216	(2)
Key Terms	218	(1)
PART III The Theatre of Other Times and Places: Theatre History	219	(210)
The Present and the Past	219	(4)
Facade Stages: Greece and Rome	223	(34)
The Uncertain Origins of Theatre	224	(3)
Shared Features of Greek and Roman Theatre	227	(1)
The Greek Theatre	228	(15)
The Roman Theatre	243	(10)
The Period in the Modern Repertory	253	(1)
Current Issues	254	(1)
Key Terms	255	(2)
Emblem and Simultaneity: Middle Ages and Golden Ages	257	(36)
Theatre in the Middle Ages	259	(15)
Theatre in the Golden Ages of England and Spain	274	(16)
The Period in the Modern Repertory	290	(1)
Current Issues	291	(1)
Key Terms	292	(1)
Illusionistic Theatres I: Neoclassicism and Italianate Staging	293	(28)
Theatre in Italy (1550--1750)	294	(10)
Theatre in France (1550--1750)	304	(8)
Theatre in England (1660--1750)	312	(5)
Theatre in America, c. 1750	317	(1)
The Period in the Modern Repertory	317	(1)
Current Issues	318	(1)
Key Terms	319	(2)
Illusionistic Theatres II: Romanticism, Commercialism, and Realism	321	(44)
Romanticism	323	(12)
Post-Romanticism: Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Theatre	335	(2)
Commercial Theatres (c. 1850--1900)	337	(3)
Realism	340	(12)
Commercial Theatre and Some Alternatives in the United States (1900--1960)	352	(10)
The Period in the Modern Repertory	362	(1)
Current Issues	362	(2)
Key Terms	364	(1)
Reactions Against Realism: The Avant Garde, 1890s--1960s	365	(16)
Background	366	(2)
Impressionism	368	(1)
Symbolism	369	(1)
Expressionism	370	(1)
Constructivism	371	(1)
Absurdism	372	(2)
Brecht and Artaud	374	(4)
The Avant Garde in the Modern Repertory	378	(1)
Current Issues	379	(1)
Key Terms	380	(1)
Changing World, Eclectic Theatre: 1960s--Y2K	381	(20)
Background	382	(1)
Theatre, 1960s--2000s	383	(14)
The Period in the Modern Repertory	397	(2)
Current Issues	399	(1)
Key Terms	400	(1)
World Theatre	401	(28)
Background	402	(4)
Africa	406	(7)
The Islamic World	413	(1)
The East	414	(13)
Current Issues	427	(1)
Key Terms	428	(1)
Glossary	429	(16)
Index	445