Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Thisnew edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introductionoffers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians.

Completely revised and renewed in color, enhancements and new material include:

• afull-color text design with added timelines to each opening section
• awealth of new color illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described
• new case studies on African, Asian, and Western subjects
• anew chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions
• fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary
• are-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating tocase studiesand an online glossary.