Description
This course surveys the evolution of theatre, from Ancient Greece
through the French Neoclassical Theatre. The course will examine the
various social, political, religious, cultural and aesthetic
functions of ritual and theatre as they relate to the history of the
stage, the evolution of stagecraft, performance conventions and
acting techniques. We will study scripts, not so much as dramatic
literature, but as they exemplify ideas about the purpose of theatre
within their particular historical moments. (3 s.h.)