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目次

1. Medieval drama, secular and religious; 2. The early morality play;3. The Tudor interlude; 4. The Elizabethan theatre; 5. Marlowe'sstagecraft; 6. Shakespeare's practice; 7. Ben Jonson's comicstagecraft; 8. The court masque; 9. Jacobean experiment: exploring theform; 10. The Restoration stage; 11. The Georgian theatre; 12. TheVictorian theatre; 13. Bernard Shaw and his stage practice; 14.Twentieth-century developments and variations.