| Edition |
Ninth edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Wadsworth series in theatre |
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Wadsworth series in theatre.
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| Contents |
The nature of theatre -- Performance, audience, and critic -- The play -- Festival theatre: Greek, Roman, and medieval theatre experiences -- Creating a professional theatre: Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia dell'Arte, and seventeenth-century France -- From romanticism to realism -- The modernist temperament: 1885-1940 -- Reevaluation, decentralization, and subsidization -- Contemporary theatre and its diversity -- Asian and African theatre -- Theatrical space and production design -- Playwriting and dramaturgy -- Directing and producing -- Acting -- Scene design -- Costume design and makeup -- Lighting and sound design. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-435) and index. |
| Subject |
Theater -- History.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ball, Robert J.
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| ISBN |
0495090379 |
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9780495090373 |
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