World Theatre Histories, Texts and Performances I

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Study of world theatre from its Origins to the Seventeenth Century. The class explores how theatre has been created and consumed in diverse settings around the globe, with particular emphasis given to dramatic texts and performance traditions, as well as critical, literary, and performance theories. Includes study of theatre architecture and production design; political, social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts of performances, and the theory and history of acting across time and place.