Part One: Approaching Theatre Chapter One: The Art of Theatre How Old Is Theatre? Theatre vs. Drama What Is the Essence of Drama? What Are the Basic Elements of Theatre? Theatre Is Art, but What Is "Art"? What Makes Theatre a Unique Art Form What Purpose Does Theatre Serve in Today''s Society? Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Food for Thought Chapter Two: You as the Critic The Live Experience Theatre Etiquette To Clap or Not to Clap The Professional Critic What Are the Qualities of a Good Critic? Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Food for Thought Chapter Three: Examining the Bones The Master Builder Searching for Subtext More on Objective Character Tone Theme Shaping a Story for the Stage Plot Diction Music Spectacle Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Food for Thought Chapter Four: The Wooden "0"The Arena Stage History of the Arena The Thrust Stage History of the Thrust The Proscenium Stage History of the Proscenium The Flexible Theatre Space History of the Flexible Space All the Spaces You Don''t See The Ghost Light Key Terms Food for Thought Part Two: Theatre Through the Ages Chapter Five: The Dawn of Western Theatre Greek Theatre The First Plays The Theatres of Ancient Greece The Big Three Raunch and Ridicule: The Comedy of Ancient Greece The Fall of High Art The Roman Take on Theatre The Theatres of Ancient Rome Rome''s Not-So-Memorable Playwrights. The Fall of Rome . And Theatre Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Plays of Note Food for Thought Chapter Six: Medieval Theatre or Just How Dark Were the Dark Ages? How the Church Saved Theatre. Liturgical Drama Theatre on Parade Morality Plays and Interludes Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Plays of Note Food for Thought Chapter Seven: The Renaissance Renaissance Italy: Zany Comedy and the Greeks Reborn Commedia De!l''arte Humanism and Perspective Scenery The Golden Age of Spanish Theatre The Elizabethan Stage "The Bard" Shakespeare''s Contemporaries The Theatres of Elizabethan England Conventions of the Elizabethan Stage Masques French Theatre and Neoclassicism France''s Big Three The French Stage and the Birth of Lighting Design Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Plays of Note Food for Thought Chapter Eight: The Naughty Rich: England''s Restoration Theatre The Puritans Wage War on Theatre Charles II Gives Theatre a Reprieve Restoration Comedy The Restoration Stage Getting in Touch with Their Feminine Side Restoration Tragedy A Kinder, Gentler Theatre Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Plays of Note Food for Thought Chapter Nine: The Enlightened and the Romantics The Enlightened Theatre Key Theatrical Figures of the Enlightenment The Man Who Brought Spanish Theatre Out of the Dark Ages The Philosopher Playwright The First Realistic Actress? A Touch of Romance The End of Neoclassicism Melodrama The Ultimate in Spectacle Stars of the Romantic Stage The Curtain Comes Down on Melodrama Key Terms Names Worth Knowing Plays of Note Food for Thought Chapter Ten: The Rise of Modern Theatre Realism Turns Theatre Inside Out The Architects of Realism The Father of Modern Drama The Master of Subtlety At Last! Realistic Acting Other Changes Spawned by Realism Naturalism: When Realism Just Isn''t Enough Dodging Censorship Meanwhile, in Germany Reactions to Realism Symbolism, or, Your English Teacher''s Favorite Subject Changing Theories Out of the Chaos of War America Joins the World.