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ACT ONE Theatre and Its Audience CHAPTER 1 CULTURAL COLLABORATION: Theatre and Society Theatre as Entertainment and Art The Social Functions of Theatre Social Control of Theatre Theatrical Choice in North America Cultural Context and Personal Experience CHAPTER 2 EXPERIENCING THEATRE: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space The Audience The Nature of Acting From Play to Production Space Theatre and Transformation C HAPTER 3 ANALYZING THEATRE: Thinking and Writing About Live Performance Theatre, Film, and Television Analyzing Production Thinking About Actor Performances Thinking About Space and Design Understanding Style Evaluating Production The Role of the Critic Writing About Production When It All Works CHAPTER 4 UNDERSTANDING THE PLAY: A Theatrical Blueprint Plot Character Thought Language Music Spectacle CHAPTER 5 INTERPRETING THE PLAY: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing Dramatic Genre Reading a Play Writing About a Play ACT TWO Collaboration in Art and Practice CHAPTER 6 THE DIRECTOR: Vision and Leadership Has Someone Always Been in Charge? Interpretation Developing Concept Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision Collaborating with the Playwright Directors and Absent Playwrights Collaborating with Designers Collaborating with Actors Collaborating with the Stage Manager The Rehearsal Process Opening the Production CHAPTER 7 THE ACTOR: From Mask to Contemporary Performance Development of the Actor Acting Styles and Methods The Actor's Work CHAPTER 8 THE PLAYWRIGHT: Imagination and Expression The Changing Position of the Playwright The Playwright and Production Development of New Plays CHAPTER 9 THE DESIGNER: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play The Development of the Designer The Designers' Choices The Scenic Designer's Work The Lighting Designer's Work The Costume Designer's Work The Sound Designer's Work Integrating All the Designs CHAPTER 10 THE PRODUCER: Coordination, Promotion, Economics Early Producers The Role of the Producer The Economics of Theatre ACT THREE Collaboration in History CHAPTER 11 FOUNDATIONS: Classical Theatrical Forms Classical Greece Classical Rome Medieval Europe Classical India Classical China Classical Japan CHAPTER 12 REINTERPRETATIONS: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics The Italian Renaissance Elizabethan England The Spanish Golden Age Seventeenth-Century France Restoration England Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas CHAPTER 13 REVOLUTIONS: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment Romanticism Nineteenth-Century Melodrama Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment

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