Part One: FOUNDATIONS.
1. The Nature of Theatre
2. Performance, Audience, and Critic.
3. The Playscript.
Part Two: VARIETIES OF THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.
4.Festival Theatre: Greek, Roman, and Medieval Theatre Experiences.
5. Creating a Professional Theatre: Elizabethan England, Italian Commedia dell'Arte, and Seventeenth-Century France.
6. From Melodrama to Realism.
7. The Modernist Temperament: 1890-1940.
8. Reevaluation, Decentralization, and Subsidization.
9. Contemporary Diversity.
10. World Drama and Theatre.
Part Three: THEATRICAL PRODUCTION.
11. Theatrical Space and Production Design.
12. Playwriting and Dramaturgy.
13. Directing and Producing.
14. Acting.
15. Scenic Design.
16. Costume Design and Makeup.
17. Lighting and Sound Design.
Oscar G. Brockett enjoys an international reputation as a theatre historian. A Distinguished Scholar honoree of the American Society of Theatre Research, he has received career achievement awards from: the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; the United States Institute for Theatre Technology; and is a recipient of the Robert Lewis Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Research. After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he taught at several major American universities and at the University of Bristol in England. He has also served as President of the American Theatre Association, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at University of Texas, Editor of Theatre Journal, and on the editorial board of the Asian Theatre Journal. He held the prestigious University of Texas Z.T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and was the Director of the Center for Dramatic and Performance Studies for several years. Dr. Brockett is the author of many articles in leading journals and has written several books, including History of the Theatre and The Essential Theatre. He is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Dean of the Fellows of the American Theatre.
