The living stage : a history of the world theater
Kenneth Macgowan (Author), William W. Melnitz (Author), Gerda With (Illustrator)
Examines the personalities and events which shaped the development of acting and the theater from ancient Egypt
Print Book, English, 1955
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1955
History
xii, 543 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
256989
Preface
Theater begins with primitive man
The great Greeks and the much lesser Latins
Theater reborn before medieval altars
The Renaissance theater in Italy
Spain's golden age
The theater that Elizabeth I sustained
France in and out of the Renaissance
The Restoration and the eighteenth century in England
1500 to 1800 in Teutonic lands
The eighteenth century in France and America
The oriental theater
The nineteenth century, a time of change in Europe
The American theater, 1800 to 1900
Twentieth-century realism
The theater of today and tomorrow