Table of Contents

Preface     1
Acknowledgments     4
Theatre, Drama, and Place     5
What Are Theatre and Drama?     7
Dramatic Structure     32
Dramatic Style and Genre     52
Architecture and Space     70
The Production     91
The Playwright     93
The Actor     115
The Director     138
The Designers and Supporting Artists     168
The Business Side of Theatre     205
The Audience and the Critic     220
Theatre History     243
Theatre's Beginnings     245
Medieval Theatre     261
Renaissance Theatre     273
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theatre     290
Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Theatre     303
Glossary     332
Selected Bibliography     346
Permissions Acknowledgments     352
About the Author     355