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Preface | |
Introduction | |
The Theatre: Its Elements | |
What Is the Theatre? | |
The Theatre Building | |
The Company, or Troupe, of Players | |
The Occupation of Theatre | |
Work | |
Art | |
Impersonation | |
Performance | |
Live Performance | |
Scripted and Rehearsed Performance | |
What Is a Play? | |
Classifying Plays | |
Duration | |
Genre | |
Tragedy | |
Comedy and Other Genres | |
Dramaturgy: The Construction of Drama and Dramatic Performance | |
Drama’s Components: The Vertical Axis | |
Plot | |
Characters | |
Theme | |
Diction | |
Music | |
Spectacle | |
Conventions | |
Drama's Timeline: The Horizontal Axis | |
Preplay | |
Play | |
Postplay | |
Non-Aristotelian Theatre Events | |
The Past | |
The Ancients | |
Ritual | |
Storytelling | |
Shamanism, Trance, and Magic | |
The Beginnings of Traditional Drama | |
Traditional Drama in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
Nigerian Masquerade | |
Egyptian Drama | |
The Greek Theatre | |
Origins and Evolution | |
The Birth of the Dithyramb | |
The Classic Period | |
The Theatron | |
The Spectacle | |
The City Dionysia | |
The Greek Plays | |
Prometheus Bound | |
Oedipus Tyrannos | |
The Roman Theatre | |
The Middle Ages | |
The Quem Queritis: From Trope to Drama | |
Out of the Church | |
The Corpus Christi Plays at York | |
The York Cycle | |
Medieval Morality Plays | |
The Renaissance | |
The Shakespearean Era | |
The Theatres | |
The Players | |
The Plays | |
The Plays of Shakespeare | |
Romeo and Juliet | |
Renaissance Theatre in Italy and Spain | |
Italy: Machiaveli and the Commedia dell'Arte | |
Spain's Golden Age | |
The Theatre of Asia | |
Theatre in Asia | |
The Drama of IndiaSanskrit Dance-TheatreKathakali | |
Chinese Opera: XiquXiqu’s OriginsStaging of Xiqu | |
The Drama of Japan | |
No | |
Kabuki | |
Kabuki's Origins | |
Visualizing Kabuki | |
Kabuki Plays | |
Kabuki Theatres | |
Kabuki Scenery | |
Kabuki Music | |
Kabuki Actor Families | |
Kabuki Acting Style | |
Kabuki Costumes and Wigs | |
Kabuki Actor-Training and Rehearsals | |
Kabuki Actors' Assistants | |
Kabuki Acting Moments | |
The Kabuki Audience | |
Kabuki and Artistic Creativity | |
Kabuki Today | |
Bunraku: Japan's Puppet Theatre | |
Asian Theatre Today | |
The Royal Era | |
A Theatre for Courts and Kings | |
Dramaturgy | |
Staging Practices | |
The French Theatre | |
The Royal Court and the Tennis Court | |
The Public Theatre Audience | |
Molière | |
The Bourgeois Gentleman | |
England: The Restoration Theatre | |
The Rover | |
The Modern and the Now | |
The Modern Theatre: Realism | |
Romantic Beginnings | |
Realism: Likeness to Life | |
A Laboratory | |
Henrik Ibsen: The Pioneer of Realism | |
A Doll's House | |
The Spread of Realism | |
Naturalism | |
Anton Chekhov: The High Point of Realism | |
The Three Sisters | |
American Realism | |
Eugene O’Neill | |
Clifford Odets | |
Arthur Miller | |
Tennessee Williams | |
August Wilson | |
Realism and the American Cinema | |
The Modern Theatre: Antirealism | |
Symbolist Beginnings | |
The Era of "Isms" | |
Early Isms and Stylizations: A Sampling of Five Plays | |
The French Avant-Garde: Ubu Roi | |
Intellectual Comedy: Man and Superman | |
Expressionism: The Hairy Ape | |
Metatheatre: Six Characters in Search of an Author | |
Theatre of Cruelty: Jet of Blood | |
Postwar Alienation and Absurdity | |
Theatre of Alienation: Bertolt Brecht | |
Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett | |
Happy Days | |
Future Directions in Antirealistic Theatre | |
The Musical Theatre | |
The Role of Music in Theatre History | |
The Development of the Broadway Musical: America's Contribution | |
Musical Comedy: Gershwin, Kern, Darktown Follies, and Rodgers and Hart | |
A Golden Age | |
The Contemporary Musical | |
The Emergence of Choreographer-Directors | |
Stephen Sondheim | |
Black Musicals | |
Foreign Invasions: British, French, Swedish, and Disney | |
Musicals of the Twenty-first Century | |
Theatre Today | |
What's Happening? | |
A Theatre of Postmodern Experiment | |
A Nonlinear Theatre | |
An Open Theatre | |
A Diverse Theatre | |
Photo Essay: Theatre in the Borderlands | |
A Global Theatre | |
A Macaronic Theatre | |
A Theatre of Difference | |
A Theatre of Nontraditional Casting | |
Spectacular Theatre | |
Verbatim Theatre | |
A Dangerous Theatre | |
A Theatre of Community | |
Movement Art and Dance-Theatre | |
Solo Performance | |
Three Theatre-Makers in the Theatre Today | |
Peter Brook | |
Robert Wilson | |
Julie Taymor | |
Theatre Today: Where Can You Find It? | |
New York City | |
Broadway | |
Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway | |
Regional American Theatre: Not for Profit | |
Boston | |
Chicago | |
Los Angeles | |
Minneapolis | |
Seattle | |
Washington, D.C. | |
Shakespeare Festivals | |
Summer and Dinner Theatres | |
Amateur Theatre: Academic and Community | |
International Theatre | |
Beyond North America | |
Conclusions about Theatre Today? | |
The Practioners | |
The Actor | |
What Is Acting? | |
The Paradox of Acting - from Socrates to Stanislavsky | |
Acting Today | |
Acting from the Inside: The Stanislavsky Legacy | |
Emotion Memory | |
Acting from the Outside | |
The Actor as Virtuoso | |
Putting It Together | |
Magic | |
Becoming an Actor | |
The Approach | |
The Actor's Instrument | |
Voice and Speech | |
The Psychological Instrument | |
Photo Essay: Actor Patrick Stewart | |
Movement | |
Discipline | |
The Actor's Routine | |
Audition | |
Rehearsal | |
Performance | |
The Actor in Life | |
The Playwright | |
We Are All Playwrights | |
Literary and Nonliterary Aspects of Playwrighting | |
Playwrighting as Event Writing | |
The Qualities of a Fine Play | |
Credibility and Intrigue | |
Speakability, Stageability, and Flow | |
Richness | |
Depth of Characterization | |
Gravity and Pertinence | |
Compression, Economy, and Intensity | |
Celebration | |
The Playwright's Process | |
Dialogue | |
Conflict | |
Structure | |
The Playwright's Rewards | |
A Sampling of Current American Playwrights | |
David Mamet | |
Tony Kushner | |
David Henry Hwang | |
Neil LaBute | |
Lynn Nottage | |
Photo Essay: Playwright Neil LaBute | |
Designers and Technicians | |
The Design Process | |
What Design Does | |
Scenery | |
Scenic Materials | |
The Scene Designer at Work | |
Photo Essay: Scene Designer Tony Walton | |
The Scene Designer at Work | |
Lighting | |
Modern Lighting Design | |
The Lighting Designer at Work | |
Photo Essay: Lighting Designer Don Holder | |
Costumes | |
The Functions of Costume | |
The Costume Designer at Work | |
Photo Essay: Costume Designer Catherine Zuber | |
Makeup | |
Sound Design | |
Photo Essay: Sound Designer Scott Lehrer | |
Projection Design | |
Special Effects | |
Digital Technologies in Theatre Design | |
The Technical Production Team | |
Photo Essay: Stage Manager Michael McGoff | |
The Director | |
The Arrival of the Director: A Historical Overview | |
Teacher-Directors | |
Realistic Directors | |
Stylizing Directors | |
The Contemporary Director | |
Photo Essay: Director Susan Stroman | |
Director and Producer | |
Vision and Leadership | |
Play Selection | |
Conceptualizing | |
Designer Selection | |
Director-Designer Collaboration | |
Photo Essay: The School for Wives | |
Casting | |
Implementation | |
Staging | |
Actor-Coaching | |
Pacing | |
Coordinating | |
Presenting | |
The Training of a Director | |
The Critic and the Dramaturg | |
Critical and Dramaturgical Perspectives | |
Social Significance | |
Human Significance | |
Artistic Quality | |
Relationship to the Theatre Itself | |
Entertainment Value | |
Critical and Dramaturgical Focus | |
Professional Criticism | |
Professional Dramaturgy | |
Student Criticism and Dramaturgy | |
We Are the Critics | |
Glossary | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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