Theatre History: Ancient-1800

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This course emphasizing the ways in which theatre functions as a social, political, and economic institution in a variety of representative settings. The course covers the physical spaces of performance, methods of scenic design, lighting, costuming, staging, acting, and the organization of theater as a social event from the origin of theatre until the end of the 18th century. In other words, we will try to reconstruct what the theater event was like in other times and places.