A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment

Mechele Leon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Kansas, USA.

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Editor's Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theatre and the Enlightenment Matrix
Mechele Leon, University of Kansas, USA

1 Institutional Frameworks: The State, the Market, and the People in the Age of Enlightenment
John O'Brien, University of Virginia, USA

2 Social Functions: Audiences and Authority
David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, UK

3 Sexuality and Gender: Changing Identities
Helen E. M. Brooks, University of Kent, UK

4 The Environment of Theatre: Power, Resistance and Commerce
Mechele Leon, University of Kansas, USA

5 Circulation: Emergent Modalities of Intercultural Performance
Mita Choudhury, Purdue Northwest, USA

6 Interpretations: From Theatrephobia to a Theatrical 'Science of Man'
Logan J. Connors, University of Miami, USA

7 Communities of Production: Eighteenth-Century Acting Companies
Deborah C. Payne, American University, USA

8 Repertoire and Genres: Cultural Logics and the Trick of Theatrical Longevity
Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

9 Technologies of Performance: Architecture, Scenery, Light
Pannill Camp, Washington University, USA

10 Knowledge Transmission: Theatrical Intelligence and the Intelligence of
Theatre
Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph, Canada

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