This streamlined, engaging text helps students understand the events, places and people that have influenced the history of theatre.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Identify the major time periods and geographic areas associated with the history of theatre
• Distinguish relevant characteristics of theatre in diverse times and places.
• Describe the underlying cultural, economic, and political environments as they affected theatre in different times and places.
• Associate major participants who made theatre within their historical and regional context.