The Living Stage: A History of the World Theater - A Rich Panorama of Mankind's Activities in Drama from Primitive Times to the Present

543 pp. 10 x 6 5/8. CONTENTS: 1. Theater Begins with Primitive Man; 2. The Great Greeks and the Much Lesser Latins; 3. Theater Reborn Before Medieval Altars; 4. The Renaissance Theater in Italy; 5. Spain's Golden Age; 6. The Theater that Elizabeth I Sustained; 7. France in and Out of the Renaissance; 8. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century in England; 9. 1500 to 1800 in Teutonic Lands; 10. The Eighteenth Century in France and America; 11. The Oriental Theater; 12. The Nineteenth Century - A Time of Change in Europe; 13. The American Theater - 1800 to 1900; 14. Twentieth-Century Realism; 15. The Theater of Today and Tomorrow; Bibliography; Index.