Theatre

The late Phyllis Hartnoll was editor of The Oxford Companion to the Theatre.Enoch Brater is Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of DramaticLiterature & Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan.

• 1. The Greek and Roman Theatre • 2. The Medieval Theatre • 3. The Theatre of the Italian Renaissance • 4. The Elizabethan Theatre • 5. The Golden Age of Spain and France • 6. The English Restoration Theatre • 7. The Theatre in Eighteenth-century Germany • 8. France before the Revolution • 9. The Early Nineteenth-century Theatre • 10. The Later Nineteenth-century Theatre • 11. Ibsen, Chekhov and the Theatre of Ideas • 12. The Modern Theatre • 13. The Contemporary Theatre; Endmatter

'A reliable and detailed document, richly illustrated, of use to students of history and theatre alike' - The Times Educational Supplement