The enjoyment of theatre / by Patterson, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Theatre : performance and art -- Theatre : the performing audience, three roles -- How to read a play -- How to see a play -- Mediating the art and business of theatre -- Making theatre today : the context -- Playwrights -- Actors -- Directors -- Designers and technicians -- 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 c.1750 to the 1950s -- The rise and triumph of commercialism, c. 1750 to the 1950s -- Musical theatre -- Eclectic theatre, c. 1950-c. 2000 -- US theatre from 2000 -- Global theatre.…”