| Introduction |
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"That's the Last Time I Play Mammoth!" Prehistory, Cave Paintings, Ritual, and Dance |
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12 | (2) |
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A Horus Line Passion in the Pyramids |
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14 | (2) |
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Tragedy, Comedy, and Hemorrhoids The Famous Greeks |
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16 | (2) |
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"Never Work with Animals..." Rome and Pantomime |
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18 | (2) |
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Here Comes the Passion Wagon "It's All a Mystery to Me..." |
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20 | (2) |
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Pig's Blood, Guts, and Explosions European Mysteries |
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22 | (2) |
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Theater? What Theater? Machiavelli and the Italian Renaissance |
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24 | (2) |
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Slapstick, Dirty Old Men, and Cuckolds The Italian Commedia dell'arte |
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26 | (2) |
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Golden Age of Spain Cervantes, de Vega, Calderon |
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28 | (2) |
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Tudor Days Ralph Roister Doister to Gorboduc |
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30 | (2) |
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The Glory Days The Burbages, Marlowe, Jonson |
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32 | (2) |
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And Now...the Man Himself William Shakespeare |
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34 | (2) |
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Blood and Madness The Jolly Jacobeans |
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36 | (2) |
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Masque Makers to the Gentry Jones and Jonson |
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38 | (2) |
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Big Noses and Bad Manners The Renaissance in France |
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40 | (2) |
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Moliere the Great Innovative Social Comedy |
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42 | (2) |
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Decadence and Women! Restoration Theater |
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44 | (2) |
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Herr Sachs Sucks Teutonic Popular Theater |
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46 | (2) |
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The Brits on Tour Browne, Kempe, and the "Englische Komodianten" |
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48 | (2) |
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Baroque? Actors Are Always Baroque! Italian Melodramma in Perspective |
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50 | (2) |
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It's an Epic--Go to the Washroom First! India: Kalidasa and Shri-Harshadeva to Tagore |
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52 | (2) |
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Wajang Gedog and the Shadows! Southeast Asia: Marionettes and Humans |
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54 | (2) |
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Does Anyone Know What's Happening? Things Change Slowly in Chinese Theater |
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56 | (2) |
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No, No, Not No...No! Monkey Music and Mannerism in Japan |
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58 | (2) |
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Theater, Revolution, and Short Dictators 18th-Century France: Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Talma, and Napoleon |
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60 | (2) |
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Meanwhile, in Venice... Papa Goldoni, Nasty Snr. Gozzi, and Alfieri |
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62 | (2) |
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Sturm und Drang! Von Klinger, Goethe, and Schiller |
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64 | (2) |
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Handsome Rogues Cibber, Garrick, Sheridan, et. al. |
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66 | (2) |
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The Brits on Tour II: The United States Kean & Murray, Hallam, Fennell, and Cooper |
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68 | (2) |
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The First Age of the American Actors Payne, Forrest, the Booths, and Those Barrymores |
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70 | (2) |
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Horrid Little Men Kean, Kemble, Vestris |
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72 | (2) |
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The Actor and the Manager Macready, Phelps, Bancroft, Irving, Terry |
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74 | (2) |
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Nationalism vs. Naturalism Buchner, Saxe-Meinengen, Wagner |
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76 | (2) |
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Romanticism vs. Naturalism Hugo, de Musset, Sardou, Bernhardt, and Antoine |
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78 | (2) |
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Nationalism vs. Everyone in Italy D'Annunzio, Ristori, Duse, Salvini |
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80 | (2) |
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Scandinavian Mysticism Ibsen and the Split Personality of Strindberg |
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82 | (2) |
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Big Plays by Men with Big Facial Hair Pushkin, Griboyedov, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Chekhov |
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84 | (2) |
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Melodrama, Disaster, and the Follies! The U.S. After the Civil War |
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86 | (2) |
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From Russia with "Loved You, Darling!" Stanislavsky: The Father of Acting |
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88 | (2) |
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Mysticism, Romance, and Symbolism The French and the Russians |
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90 | (2) |
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Illogical and Unreal, but So Happy The Futurists |
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92 | (2) |
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Take Your Pick. We Got Naturalism... Hauptmann, Gorky, O'Neill |
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94 | (2) |
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...Or We Got Realism Europe and the States |
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96 | (2) |
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Or If It's Been a Bad Hair Day... Hour About Expressionism? |
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98 | (2) |
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Jewels in the Dross Irony and Fantasy in England |
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100 | (2) |
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Of Playboys and Gunmen The Irish Connection |
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102 | (2) |
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A Shutter in the Dark Craig, Appia, Wagner, Constructivism |
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104 | (2) |
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Mad People and Modernists From Dada to Ubu |
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106 | (2) |
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Experiments Between Lenin and Hitler Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht |
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108 | (2) |
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Happiness Is...a Good Thrashing The Ecstasy and Cruelty of Artaud and Grotowsky |
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110 | (2) |
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Meanwhile, in Life's Waiting Room Existentialism |
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112 | (2) |
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The American Method (Or Hour I Stopped Acting and Learned to Mumble) |
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114 | (2) |
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Stiff Upper Lip, Crease in Your flannels (Or a Creased Upper Lip and a Stiff in Your Flannels?) |
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116 | (2) |
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Keep One's Vowels Regular! Gielgud, Richardson, Olivier |
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118 | (2) |
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Reviving the Corpse Osborne, Devine, Wesker, Ayckbourn |
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120 | (2) |
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Angry Young Persons The Revolutionaries |
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122 | (2) |
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Tellin' It Like It Is The American Realists |
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124 | (2) |
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It's the Sixties! So Get Your Clothes Off! Hair and Happenings |
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126 | (2) |
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The Times, They Are A'Changin' Agitprop in the U.K. |
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128 | (2) |
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Third World Voices Apartheid and Tyranny |
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130 | (2) |
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Awakening Ex-Colonies Australia and Canada |
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132 | (2) |
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Blurring the Boundaries Postmodernism |
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134 | (2) |
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Full Circle at Fin de Siecle? Theater Returns to Ritual and Dance |
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136 | (2) |
| Glossary |
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138 | (2) |
| Old Thespian Sayings and Superstitions |
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140 | (1) |
| Notable Performances |
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141 | (1) |
| Index |
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142 | (2) |
| Photographic Credits |
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