Theatre: performance and art -- Theatre: cultural expression, business, and the role of audience -- How to read a play -- How to see a play -- Mediators and gatekeepers -- Making theatre today: the context -- Playwrights -- Actors -- Directors -- Designers and technicians -- Theatre of other times and places: theatre history -- The theatre of Greece -- The theatre of Rome -- Theatre in the Middle Ages -- The golden ages of England and Spain -- The Italian renaissance -- The triumph and decline of neoclassicism -- Successful failure: theatre and reform, 1750-1960s -- Commercialism -- Theatre for a new millennium.
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