Theatre Histories : An Introduction (Paperback, 3 ed)

General Introduction.  Part I: Performance in Oral and Manuscript Cultures.  Introduction: Speech, Writing, and Performance  1. From Oral to Literate Performance  2. Pleasure, Power, and Aesthetics: Theatre in Early Literate Societies, 500 BCE?1450 CE  3. Commemorative Drama and Carnival.  Part II: Theatre and Performance in Early Print Cultures.  Introduction: Performance, Printing, and Political Centralization  4. Secular and Early Professional Theatre, 1250?1650  5. Theatre and the Print Revolution, 1550?1650  6. Theatres of Absolutism, 1600?1770.  Part III: Theatre and Performance in Periodical Print Cultures.  Introduction: Theatre for Bourgeois Civil Society  7. Theatre and Sentiment: Newspapers, Private Lives, and the Bourgeois Public Sphere, 1700?1785  8. Nationalism in the Theatre, 1760?1880  9. Performing "Progress": From Imperial Display to the Triumph of Realism and Naturalism, 1790?1914  10. New Media Divide the Theatres of Print Culture, 1870?1930.  Part IV: Theatre and Performance in Electric and Electronic Communication Culture.  Introduction: Theatre and the Unceasing Communications Revolutions  11. New Theatres for Revolutionary Times, 1910?1950  12. The Aftermath of World War II: Realism and its Discontents in an Increasingly Shrinking World, 1940?1970  13. Art, Politics or Business?: Theatre in Search of Identity, 1968?2000  14. Theatres of Local Roots and Global Reach (1970?Present)  15. Theatre in Networked Culture, 1990?Present.  Glossary