This volume features a collection of lectures from various contributing scholars about the history of the past 500 years of theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival brings together this history, providing a lasting record of the most important aspects of theatre in the past 500 years. Collected here for the first time, the lectures offer valuable information for scholars and students of theatre history, popular culture, communications and the social sciences. But because these lectures were commissioned for a popular audience, they also provide entertaining reading for anyone interested in learning more about the evolution of theatre.
This volume features a collection of lectures from various contributing scholars about the history of the past 500 years of theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival brings together this history, providing a lasting record of the most important aspects of theatre in the past 500 years. Collected here for the first time, the lectures offer valuable information for scholars and students of theatre history, popular culture, communications and the social sciences. But because these lectures were commissioned for a popular audience, they also provide entertaining reading for anyone interested in learning more about the evolution of theatre.