DR 603 Western Theatre and Culture I
A study of theatrical production in selected major periods in Western nations such as ancient Greece and Elizabethan-Jacobean England (603) or eighteenth-century England and nineteenth-century America (608). Chief attention to the play in performance, to staging methods, theatre architecture, acting, audiences, production organization and finance, and all of these as they intersect with cultural processes. Also introduces historiographical issues such as periodization problems, and cultural studies in race, gender, power, and class.