| Description |
xix, 474 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 playscript -- 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 susidization -- Contemporary theatre and its diversity -- Asian and African theatre -- Theatrical space and production design -- Directing and producing -- Acting -- Scene design -- Costume design and makeup -- Lighting and sound design |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-451) 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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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
Ball, Robert J.
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| LC no. |
2002117469 |
| ISBN |
0534577857 student edition |
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0534578837 instructor's edition |
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