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- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)733235188
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d BTCTA |d CDX |d IG# |d YDXCP |d WAU |d QGK |d OCLCF |d BUR |d CRH |d OCLCQ
- 050 00 |a PN2037 |b .W57 2012
- 099 __ |a CAL 022017089622
- 100 1_ |a Wilson, Edwin, |d 1927- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Theatre : |b the lively art / |c Edwin Wilson, professor Emeritus, Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, Alvin Goldfarb, President Emeritus, Western Illinois University.
- 264 _1 |a New York : |b McGraw-Hill Higher Education, |c [2012]
- 300 __ |a xxvi, 414 pages : |b color illustrations ; |c 26 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Part 1: Theatre in today's world. Theatre : the art form ; The audience : spectators and participants -- Part 2: Creating theatre : the playwright. Creating the dramatic script ; Theatrical genres -- Part 3: Creating theatre : the production. Acting for the stage ; The director and the producer ; Theatre spaces ; The designers : scenery and costumes ; The designers : lighting and sound -- Part 4: Global theatres : past and present ; Early theatres : Greek, Roman, and medieval ; Early theatre : Asian ; Renaissance theatres ; Theatres from the Restoration through Romanticism ; The modern theatre emerges ; Today's diverse global theatre.
- 505 0_ |a pt. I. Theatre in today's world --1. Theatre : the art form -- The unique quality of theatre -- Theatre as an art form -- Globalization and today's theatre -- Diversity and multiculturalism -- 2. The audience : spectators and participants -- How theater permeates our lives -- Theatre and television -- Theatre and film -- Theatre and rock and roll -- Theatricality in amusement parks, museums, Las Vegas, and sporting events -- Theater and digital media -- The role of the audience -- The critic and the reviewer -- pt. 2. Creating theatre : the playwright -- 3. Creating the dramatic script -- The playwright creates the script -- the playwriting process -- Subject -- Focus -- Dramatic purpose -- Structure in drama -- The Asian influence on the playwrights Brecht and Wilder -- Creating dramatic characters -- 4. Theatrical genres -- Dramatic genres -- Tragedy -- Conditions for tragedy : theatre and society -- Comedy -- Heroic drama -- Melodrama -- Domestic drama -- Tragicomedy --^Shakespearean tragicomedy -- pt. 3. Creating theatre : the production -- 5. Acting for the stage -- Three challenges of acting -- Demands of classical acting --Physical acting : voice and body -- Synthesis and integration -- Puppetry around the world -- Judging performances --6. The director and the producer -- The director -- Peter Book : international director -- The auteur director and the postmodern director -- The producer or manager -- Commercial theatre -- Noncommercial theatres -- 7. Theatre spaces -- Proscenium or picture-frame stage : history and characteristics -- Thrust stage : history and characteristics -- Created or found spaces -- Multifocus environments -- All-purpose and experimental spaces -- Popular performance spaces -- 8. The designers : scenery and costumes -- Scene design -- The scene designer's objectives -- The magic of the designer Josef Svoboda -- Costume design -- The costume designer at work -- 9. The designers : lighting and sound -- Stage lighting --^Sound in the theatre -- Special effects in lighting and sound.
- 505 0_ |a pt. 4. Global theatres : past and present -- 10. Early theatres : Greek, Roman, and medieval -- Origins of theatre -- Greece -- Golden age of Greece -- Greek tragedy -- Greek comedy -- Living history : Antigone -- Dramatic criticism in Greece : Aristotle -- Rome -- Rome and its civilization -- Theatre and culture in Rome -- Popular entertainment in Rome -- Roman comedy : Platus and Terence -- The Menaechmi -- Roman tragedy : Seneca -- Dramatic criticism in Rome : Horace -- Greek and Roman -- The Middle Ages -- Medieval Europe -- Theatre and culture in the Middle Ages -- Medieval drama : mystery and morality plays -- Living history : Noah's Ark -- 11. Early theatre : Asian -- The theatres of Asia -- Indian theatre -- Sa[n]skrit drama -- Chinese theatre -- Theatre in the Yuan Dynasty -- Theatre in the Ming Dynasty -- Japanese theatre -- Nō -- Sotoba Komachi -- Banraku -- Kabuki -- Southeast Asia : shadow plays -- 12. Italy -- Italian theatre : Commedia dell'Arte --^Italian Renaissance -- Italian dramatic rules : the Neoclassical ideals -- England -- Elizabethan England -- English Renaissance -- Elizabethan drama -- Living history : Hamlet -- The popular arts of Shakespeare's time -- Theatre after Elizabeth's reign -- Spain -- The Spanish Golden Age -- Living history : The King, the Greatest Alcalde -- France -- France in the Seventeenth Century -- Neoclassical France -- Theatre production in France -- Living history : Tartuffe -- 13. Theatres from the Restoration through Romanticism -- The English Restoration -- England in the Seventeenth Century -- Restoration drama : comedies of manners -- Living history : The Country Wife -- the Eighteenth Century -- Living history : The Marriage of Figaro -- The Nineteenth Century -- Nineteenth-Century popular theatrical arts -- Nineteenth century, 1800-1875 -- 14. The modern theatre emerges -- The Modern Era -- 1875 to 1915 -- Theatrical realism -- Realistic playwrights -- Naturalism --^Independent theatres -- Living history : The Sea Gull -- Departures from realism -- Antirealist playwrights : Ibsen, Strindberg and Wedekind -- Symbolism -- Antirealist designers : Appia and Craig -- Russian theatricalism : Meyerhold -- Expressionism -- Futurism and Surrealism -- The Theatre of Cruelty and Epic Theatre -- Impact of totalitarianism on theatre -- 1915 to 1945 -- Living history : Waiting for Godot -- Eclectics -- Popular theatre -- American Musical Theatre -- Global theatre in the Twentieth Century -- 1945 to 1975 -- Asian theatre -- Global exchanges -- 15. Today's diverse global theatre -- 1975 to present -- Today's theatre : global, diverse, and eclectic -- Performance art -- Postmodernism -- Diverse theatre in the United States -- American Alternative Theatre -- African American Theatre -- Latino-Latina Theatre -- Asian American Theatre -- Native American Theatre -- Feminist Theatre and gender diversity -- Gay and Lesbian Theatre -- Global theatre --^Documentary drama -- English and Irish Theatre -- Canada and Australia -- Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- Tadashi Suzuki : Japanese internationalist -- Augosto Boal : The Theatre of the Oppressed -- Today and tomorrow : a look ahead.
- 650 _0 |a Theater |x History.
- 700 1_ |a Goldfarb, Alvin, |e author.