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Author Lewis, Megan, 1968-

Title All the world a stage : the theater in history / by Megan Lewis.

Imprint Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, ℗2013.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LECTURE SERIES 792 LEW 4 CDS    Check Shelf
Description 4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Series The modern scholar : great professors teaching you!
Modern scholar.
Note "8 lectures"--Container.
Performer Lecturer: Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Note Compact disc.
Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2013.
In container (17 cm.).
Summary Human beings have been performing since the dawn of history. While the ancient Greeks formalized the endeavor, theater has been an essential aspect of most civilizations. This course explores the history of theater, from its earliest incarnations to the modern day.
Contents Disc 1. Lecture 1. Tragedy, comedy, and community : the ancient origins of drama I ; lecture 2. Comedy, bread, and spectacles : the ancient origins of drama II -- disc 2. lecture 3. Myths, morality, and mayhem : medieval, Noh, and Kathakali ; lecture 4. Physical theaters : Commedia dell'arte, kabuki, and bunraku -- disc 3. lecture 5. The golden age of Spanish drama ; lecture 6. Elizabethan and Jacobean theater -- disc 4. lecture 7. Restoration theater ; lecture 8. Theater's shifting purpose : French neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism.
Subject Theater -- History.
Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
Genre/Form Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Audiobooks.
Added Author Recorded Books, LLC.
Crescite Group, LLC.
ISBN 9781470366940
1470366940
Music No. UC0120 Recorded Books
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