Mapping Global Theatre Histories

• Main Author: Pizzato, Mark (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; Theater.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; Global/International Theatre and Performance.

This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments. It considers prehistoric cave art and built temples, Afr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Theatricality in Deep History and the Human Brain
• 2. From Prehistoric to Ancient Theatricality
• 3. Greco-Roman Beginnings of "Theatre" (as Theatron/Theatrum)
• 4. Traditional Forms of Asian Theatre
• 5. Medieval Europe and Premodern Africa, Australia, and the Americas
• 6. Early Modern Developments in Italy and France (1400s-1600s)
• 7. Early Modern Mixtures in England, Spain, and the New World (1500s-1600s)
• 8. Restoration and Baroque Revolutions (1600s-1700s)
• 9. Romanticism, Melodrama, and Minstrelsy (1800s)
• 10. Modern Realisms and Anti-Realisms (Late 1800s to Early 1900s)
• 11. Mid-Twentieth Century Euro-American Innovations
• 12. Postmodern Theatre in the US (1950s to 2010s)
• 13. Postmodern Theatre in Europe (1950s-2010s)
• 14. Global, Postcolonial Theatre.