History of the Theatre, Foundation Edition

by Brockett, Oscar G.; Hildy, Franklin J.

• ISBN13: 9780205473601
• ISBN10: 0205473601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-13
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This is a brief edition of the most successful theatre history book on the market today providing a trimmer, less expensive, and more accessible paperback version.History of Theatre - Brief Editionprovides the same full coverage of world theatre as the original. The histories of African and Asian theatre are given their own units, ensuring their unique developments will not be obscured within the coverage of Western theatre. Chapters have been trimmed to make them easier to cover but have also been revised to provide up-to-date and accurate information that isThe History of the Theatrers"shallmark. This paperback edition is extensively illustrated.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Origins of Theatre	1	(8)
The Theory of Ritual Origin	1	(1)
Performative Elements and Functions	2	(2)
Other Theories of Origin	4	(1)
North Africa and the Near East	5	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	7	(2)
Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece	9	(22)
The Origin of Tragedy	11	(1)
Tragedy in the Fifth Century	12	(1)
The Satyr Play	13	(1)
Greek Comedy in the Fifth Century	14	(1)
The Dramatic Festivals	15	(2)
Play Selection and Financing	17	(1)
Actors and Acting	18	(1)
The Chorus	18	(1)
Music and Dance	19	(1)
Costumes and Masks	20	(2)
Stages and Staging	22	(4)
Auditorium and Audience	26	(1)
Athenian Theatre after the Fifth Century	27	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	29	(2)
Hellenistic and Roman Theatre	31	(26)
The Hellenistic Theatre	31	(1)
Dramatic Theory	31	(1)
New Comedy	32	(1)
Actors and Acting	33	(1)
Costumes	34	(1)
Theatre Architecture	34	(3)
Greek Mimes	37	(1)
The Roman Theatre	38	(1)
Etruscan and Oscan Antecedents	38	(1)
The Roman Context	39	(2)
Roman Festivals	41	(1)
Drama under the Roman Republic	41	(2)
Drama under the Roman Empire	43	(2)
Production Arrangements	45	(1)
Roman Theatre Architecture	46	(3)
Scenery	49	(2)
Actors and Acting	51	(1)
Masks and Costumes	52	(1)
Music	53	(1)
The Decline of the Theatre in Rome	54	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	55	(2)
Cross-Currents of Theatre History: Asian, Byzantine, and Early Western European Theatre	57	(27)
Asian Theatre: India	58	(2)
Sanskrit Drama	60	(1)
Sanskrit Performance	61	(2)
China	63	(2)
The Development of Chinese Literary Drama	65	(3)
Japan	68	(1)
Early Professional Theatre in Japan	69	(1)
The Theatre of Byzantium	69	(1)
The Byzantine Theatre	70	(3)
The Rise of Islam	73	(1)
Western European Theatre	74	(1)
The Theatre, 500 to 900 C.E.	74	(2)
Monastery Theatre---Liturgical Drama and Comedy	76	(2)
Theatre in the High Middle Ages, 1050--1300 C.E.	78	(2)
The Staging of Liturgical Drama	80	(1)
The Feast of Fools	80	(1)
Nonliturgical Drama	81	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	81	(3)
European Theatre in the Late Middle Ages	84	(22)
Performances Outside the Church	85	(1)
The Vernacular Religious Drama	86	(1)
The Stages	86	(2)
Scenery	88	(3)
Special Effects and Machinery	91	(1)
Audiences and Auditoriums	92	(1)
Music	92	(1)
Production Arrangements	93	(1)
The Director	93	(1)
Actors and Acting	94	(2)
Costumes	96	(1)
Secular Dramatic Forms	96	(1)
Farce	96	(2)
The Morality Play	98	(1)
Chambers of Rhetoric	99	(1)
Interludes and the Advent of Professional Acting	100	(2)
Tournaments, Mummings, and Disguisings	102	(1)
Royal Entries and Street Pageants	102	(1)
The End of Medieval Drama	103	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	104	(2)
English Theatre to 1642	106	(28)
Early Tudor Drama	107	(1)
The University Wits	108	(1)
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	109	(2)
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists	111	(1)
Government Regulation of the Theatre	112	(1)
Acting Troupes	113	(2)
Theatrical Conditions	115	(1)
The Public Theatres	116	(5)
The Private Theatres	121	(3)
Scenery, Properties, Special Effects, and Music	124	(1)
Costumes	125	(1)
Audiences	126	(1)
Court Plays and Masques	127	(3)
The Italian Ideal in England	130	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	131	(3)
The Theatre of Spain and New Spain to 1700	134	(17)
The Religious Drama	134	(2)
Secular Drama	136	(1)
Early Professional Theatre	137	(1)
Lope de Vega and His Contemporaries	138	(1)
Calderon and His Contemporaries	139	(1)
Acting Companies	140	(1)
Actors and Acting	140	(1)
Costumes	141	(1)
The Corrales	142	(3)
The Stage and Scenery	145	(1)
Theatre in the Americas	146	(1)
Court Entertainments	147	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	149	(2)
Italian Theatre to 1700	151	(24)
Renaissance Drama	152	(2)
Mannerism and the Beginnings of the Baroque	154	(1)
The Neoclassical Ideal	155	(1)
Intermezzi and Opera	156	(1)
The Development of New Scenic Practices	157	(6)
Development of Theatre Architecture	163	(2)
Machinery and Special Effects	165	(2)
Music and Dance	167	(1)
The Festival Context	167	(1)
Stage Lighting	168	(1)
Commedia Dell'Arte	168	(5)
The Decline of Theatre in the Italian States	173	(2)
Looking at Theatre History	173	(2)
French Theatre to 1700	175	(22)
Theatre at Court and in Schools Prior to 1600	176	(1)
The Public Theatre in Paris before 1597	177	(1)
The Public Theatre, 1597-1629	178	(2)
The Triumph of the Neoclassical Ideal	180	(2)
Acting Companies, 1629--1660	182	(1)
The Public Theatres, 1629--1660	182	(1)
Scenic Practices in the Public Theatres, 1629--1660	183	(1)
Italian Scenic Conventions at the French Court: Italian Opera, Machine Plays, and Ballet	184	(2)
French Court Theatre: The Salle de Machines, Comedy Ballet, and French Opera, 1660--1700	186	(2)
French Drama, 1660--1700	188	(3)
Acting Companies, 1660--1700	191	(1)
The Organization of French Acting Companies	192	(1)
Theatre Architecture and Scenic Practices, 1660--1700	193	(2)
The Close of the Seventeenth Century	195	(2)
Looking at Theatre History	195	(2)
Asian Theatre to 1800	197	(22)
India	197	(2)
China	199	(1)
Beijing Opera	200	(5)
Japan	205	(1)
Noh (or No) Drama and Kyogen	205	(3)
Kabuki	208	(5)
Bunraku	213	(3)
Other Asian Countries	216	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	217	(2)
English Theatre to 1800	219	(25)
Theatrical Activity, 1642--1660	219	(1)
The Reestablishment of the Theatre	220	(1)
Acting Companies, 1600--1700	221	(1)
English Drama, 1660--1700	222	(2)
English Drama, 1700--1750	224	(2)
Governmental Regulation of the Theatre	226	(1)
English Drama, 1750--1800	227	(2)
The Playwright	229	(1)
Financial Policies	229	(1)
Theatre Architecture	230	(1)
Scenic Practices	231	(3)
Costume Practices	234	(1)
Actors and Acting, 1660--1800	235	(3)
Audiences and Performances	238	(1)
The Provincial Theatre	239	(1)
Theatre of Colonial North America	239	(5)
Looking at Theatre History	242	(2)
Continental European Theatre to 1800	244	(32)
The Evolution of Italian Scenic Design	245	(2)
Italian Drama of the Eighteenth Century	247	(1)
French Drama of the Eighteenth Century	248	(2)
Parisian Acting Troupes	250	(2)
Actors and Acting	252	(2)
Costume Practices	254	(1)
Theatre Architecture	255	(1)
Scenic Practices	256	(1)
The End of Eighteenth Century Theatre in France	257	(1)
The Court Theatres of the German States	257	(1)
The Jesuit Theatre	258	(1)
The Early Public Theatre in the German States	259	(1)
The Reforms of Gottsched and Neuber	260	(1)
Acting Companies and the State Theatres	261	(2)
Lessing and the Storm-and-Stress Movement	263	(1)
Evolution of Staging in the Eighteenth Century	264	(3)
F. L. Schroder and the Hamburg School	267	(1)
Iffland and the Mannheim School	267	(1)
Kotzebue and the Beginnings of Melodrama	268	(1)
Goethe, Schiller, and Weimar Classicism	269	(2)
Theatre in Russia to 1800	271	(5)
Looking at Theatre History	273	(3)
Continental European Theatre in the Early Nineteenth Century	276	(19)
The Theatre under Napoleon---Melodrama and Romanticism	277	(3)
German-Language Drama after Napoleon	280	(2)
Theatrical Conditions in German-Language Theatres	282	(2)
French Drama after Napoleon	284	(2)
Theatrical Conditions in France to the 1850s	286	(1)
Directing and Acting in France to the 1850s	287	(2)
Scenery, Costume, and Lighting in France to the 1850s	289	(3)
Russian Drama and Theatre to the 1850s	292	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	294	(1)
English-Language Theatre in the Early Nineteenth Century	295	(20)
Trends in English Theatre, 1800--1843	296	(1)
English Drama to the 1850s	297	(1)
English Theatrical Conditions, 1800--1843	298	(3)
Macready and Vestris	301	(2)
Theatre in North America, 1781-1815	303	(2)
The Expanding American Theatre, 1815--1850	305	(3)
Theatrical Conditions in the United States and Canada	308	(7)
Looking at Theatre History	313	(2)
English-Language Theatre in the Late Nineteenth Century	315	(22)
Theatre in the United States, 1850--1870	316	(2)
Theatre in the United States, 1870--1895	318	(5)
Theatre in Canada	323	(1)
Theatre in Australia and New Zealand	324	(2)
English Drama, 1850--1890	326	(2)
English Theatrical Conditions, 1843--1860	328	(2)
English Theatrical Conditions, 1860--1880	330	(1)
English Theatrical Conditions, 1880--1900	331	(6)
Looking at Theatre History	335	(2)
Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Late Nineteenth Century	337	(19)
Russian Theatre to 1900	337	(2)
Theatrical Conditions in Russia to 1900	339	(1)
German and Austrian Theatre to 1900	340	(2)
French Drama to 1900	342	(2)
Theatrical Conditions in France to 1900	344	(6)
The Theatre in Italy and Spain to 1900	350	(1)
Theatre in Latin America to 1900	351	(5)
Looking at Theatre History	354	(2)
The Beginnings of Modern Realism	356	(21)
The Beginnings of Realism	356	(1)
Saxe-Meiningen	357	(2)
Ibsen	359	(1)
Zola and the French Naturalists	360	(2)
Antoine and the Theatre Libre	362	(1)
The Freie Buhne and German Realism	363	(2)
The Independent Theatre and Realism in England	365	(3)
The Continuing Tradition in England to 1914	368	(1)
The Moscow Art Theatre and Realism in Russia	369	(1)
The Theatre in Italy and Spain to 1914	370	(1)
Theatre in the United States to 1917	371	(3)
Major Technical Innovations, 1875--1914	374	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	375	(2)
Modern Alternatives to Realism	377	(19)
Wagner and the Nonrealistic Theatre	377	(2)
Nonrealistic Theatre in France	379	(2)
The Revival of Idealism in France	381	(1)
Appia and Craig	382	(2)
Strindberg and Freud	384	(1)
Nonrealistic Theatre and Drama in Germany	385	(2)
Nonrealistic Theatre in England	387	(2)
The Irish Renaissance	389	(2)
Italy and the Futurists	391	(1)
Russian Modernism	392	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	394	(2)
Twentieth Century Theatre between the Wars	396	(33)
English Theatre and Drama, 1914--1939	396	(4)
Theatre and Drama in the United States, 1917--1941	400	(7)
Theatre in Canada to 1940	407	(1)
Theatre and Drama in Australia and New Zealand, 1915--1940	408	(1)
Theatrical Conditions in the Soviet Union, 1917--1940	409	(3)
Drama in the Soviet Union, 1917--1940	412	(1)
German Theatre and Drama, 1918-1939	413	(5)
Theatre and Drama in France, 1914--1939	418	(5)
Italian Theatre and Drama, 1914--1939	423	(1)
Theatre and Drama in Spain, 1914--1939	423	(1)
Theatre and Drama in Latin America	424	(5)
Looking at Theatre History	426	(3)
Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Mid Twentieth Century	429	(20)
International Developments	429	(1)
French Theatre and Drama, 1940--1968	430	(6)
Soviet Theatre and Drama, 1940--1968	436	(2)
Theatre and Drama in Czechoslovakia, 1940--1968	438	(1)
German Theatre and Drama, 1940--1968	439	(4)
Theatre and Drama in Italy, 1940--1968	443	(1)
Theatre and Drama in Latin America, 1940--1968	444	(5)
Looking at Theatre History	447	(2)
English-Language Theatre in the Mid Twentieth Century	449	(19)
English Theatre and Drama, 1940--1968	449	(6)
Theatre and Drama in the United States, 1940--1968	455	(7)
Canadian Theatre to 1968	462	(3)
Australia and New Zealand Theatre to 1968	465	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	466	(2)
Theatre of Africa	468	(23)
Some Basic Issues and Problems	468	(2)
Nigeria	470	(4)
Ghana	474	(2)
Sierra Leone	476	(1)
Kenya	477	(1)
Uganda	478	(2)
Tanzania	480	(1)
Senegal	481	(1)
South Africa	482	(6)
North Africa	488	(3)
Looking at Theatre History	489	(2)
Continental European and Latin American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century	491	(18)
Soviet and Russian Theatre to 1990	491	(3)
Theatre in Poland and Czechoslovakia to 1990	494	(2)
German Theatre to 1990	496	(5)
Theatre and Drama in Italy to 1990	501	(2)
Theatre in France to 1990	503	(4)
Latin American Theatre to 1990	507	(2)
Looking at Theatre History	508	(1)
English-Language Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century	509	(24)
British Theatre to 1990	509	(6)
Theatre in the United States after 1968	515	(13)
Canadian Theatre to 1990	528	(1)
Theatre in Australia and New Zealand to 1990	529	(4)
Looking at Theatre History	531	(2)
Contemporary Theatre	533	(25)
Theatre in Asia	533	(2)
Theatre in Russia	535	(2)
Theatre in Poland and the Czech Republic	537	(1)
Theatre in Germany	538	(2)
Theatre in Italy	540	(1)
Theatre in France	541	(1)
Theatre in Britain	542	(4)
Theatre in Ireland	546	(1)
Theatre in Canada	547	(1)
Theatre in the United States	548	(10)
Looking at Theatre History	557	(1)
Index	558