PART 1: EARLY THEATRES  

Chapter 1: Studying Theatre History  

Chapter 2: Origins of Theatre: Ritual and Performance

Chapter 3: Greek Theatre  

Chapter 4: Roman Theatre  

Chapter 5: Early Theatre in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia (NEW)  

Chapter 6: Medieval European and Classical Asian and African Theatres

PART 2: RENAISSANCE, INNOVATION, AND EMPIRE: THEATRES FROM 1550 to 1800  

Chapter 7: The Theatre of the Italian Renaissance  

Chapter 8: The Theatres of the English Renaissance and Restoration  

Chapter 9: The Spanish Renaissance and French Neoclassical Theatres  

Chapter 10: Theatre at the Dawn of the Age of Empire: The Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (NEW)  

Chapter 11: Theatres in Eighteenth-Century Europe, the United States, and Canada  

PART 3: GLOBAL THEATRES FROM 1800 TO TODAY*  

Chapter 12: Global Theatres 1800 to 1875  

Chapter 13: Global Theatres 1875 to 1945  

Chapter 14: Global Theatres 1945 to 1985  

Chapter 15: Global Theatre 1985 to the Present 

*Fully revised to present a global chronology of theatre, showing the development of theatres in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Indigenous communities alongside theatres of Europe and the United States.