The nature of theatre -- Performance, audience, and critic -- The play -- 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 subsidization -- Contemporary theatre and its diversity -- Asian and African theatre -- Theatrical space and production design -- Playwriting and dramaturgy -- Directing and producing -- Acting -- Scene design -- Costume design and makeup -- Lighting and sound design.
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