Instructor’s Resource Manual & Test Bank
for
The Essential Theatre
10th edition
, CONTENTS
Preface
Pedagogy Issues
Highlight of Key Revisions
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Foundations 1
Chapter 1 The Nature of Theatre 1
Terminology 1
Outline 1
Discussion Questions 3
Suggested Activities 4
, Sample Quiz Questions 4
Chapter 2 Audience and Criticism 6
Terminology 6
Outline 6
Discussion Questions 9
Suggested Activities 9
Sample Quiz Questions 9
Chapter 3 The Play 11
Terminology 11
Outline 11
Discussion Questions 17
Suggested Activities 17
Sample Quiz Questions 17
Part 2 Varieties of Theatrical Experience 19
Chapter 4 Festival Theatre: Greek, Roman, and Medieval Theatre Experiences 19
Terminology 19
Outline 20
Discussion Questions 32
Suggested Activities 33
Sample Quiz Questions 33
Chapter 5 Creating a Professional Theatre: Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia
dell’Arte, and Seventeenth-Century France 36
Terminology 36
Outline 36
Discussion Questions 49
Suggested Activities 50
Sample Quiz Questions 50
, Chapter 6 From Romanticism to Realism 53
Terminology 53
Outline 53
Discussion Questions 61
Suggested Activities 61
Sample Quiz Questions 61
Chapter 7 Modernism and Its Effects: 1885-1960 64
Terminology 64
Outline 64
Discussion Questions 75
Suggested Activities 75
Sample Quiz Questions 76
Chapter 8 Decentralization and Subsidization: New Directions 79
Terminology 79
Outline 79
Discussion Questions 87
Suggested Activities 87
Sample Quiz Questions 88
Chapter 9 Contemporary Theatre and Its Diversity 91
Terminology 91
Outline 91
Discussion Questions 98
Suggested Activities 98
Sample Quiz Questions 99
Chapter 10 Asian and African Theatre 102
Terminology 102
Outline 102
Discussion Questions 113
Suggested Activities 113
Sample Quiz Questions 114
Part 3 Theatrical Production 116
Chapter 11 Theatrical Space and Production Design 116
Terminology 116
Outline 116
Discussion Questions 121
Suggested Activities 121
Sample Quiz Questions 121
for
The Essential Theatre
10th edition
, CONTENTS
Preface
Pedagogy Issues
Highlight of Key Revisions
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Foundations 1
Chapter 1 The Nature of Theatre 1
Terminology 1
Outline 1
Discussion Questions 3
Suggested Activities 4
, Sample Quiz Questions 4
Chapter 2 Audience and Criticism 6
Terminology 6
Outline 6
Discussion Questions 9
Suggested Activities 9
Sample Quiz Questions 9
Chapter 3 The Play 11
Terminology 11
Outline 11
Discussion Questions 17
Suggested Activities 17
Sample Quiz Questions 17
Part 2 Varieties of Theatrical Experience 19
Chapter 4 Festival Theatre: Greek, Roman, and Medieval Theatre Experiences 19
Terminology 19
Outline 20
Discussion Questions 32
Suggested Activities 33
Sample Quiz Questions 33
Chapter 5 Creating a Professional Theatre: Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia
dell’Arte, and Seventeenth-Century France 36
Terminology 36
Outline 36
Discussion Questions 49
Suggested Activities 50
Sample Quiz Questions 50
, Chapter 6 From Romanticism to Realism 53
Terminology 53
Outline 53
Discussion Questions 61
Suggested Activities 61
Sample Quiz Questions 61
Chapter 7 Modernism and Its Effects: 1885-1960 64
Terminology 64
Outline 64
Discussion Questions 75
Suggested Activities 75
Sample Quiz Questions 76
Chapter 8 Decentralization and Subsidization: New Directions 79
Terminology 79
Outline 79
Discussion Questions 87
Suggested Activities 87
Sample Quiz Questions 88
Chapter 9 Contemporary Theatre and Its Diversity 91
Terminology 91
Outline 91
Discussion Questions 98
Suggested Activities 98
Sample Quiz Questions 99
Chapter 10 Asian and African Theatre 102
Terminology 102
Outline 102
Discussion Questions 113
Suggested Activities 113
Sample Quiz Questions 114
Part 3 Theatrical Production 116
Chapter 11 Theatrical Space and Production Design 116
Terminology 116
Outline 116
Discussion Questions 121
Suggested Activities 121
Sample Quiz Questions 121
