A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.

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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmesh

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a lon

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