Volume One Prologue : The Romans in Britain Part One : Theatre Before Theatres Interlude : The Queen’s Men Part Two : Open Air Public Theatres Interlude : The boy companies of St Paul’s and the Chapel Royal Part Three : Cavalier Theatre Interlude : Dramatick Opera Part Four : Theatre and Bourgeois Society Interlude : Eighteenth Century Amateur Theatricals Part Five : Theatre and the Enlightenment Interlude : Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee Glossary Index Volume Two Part One : Theatre and the Industrial Revolution Interlude : Punch and Judy Part Two : Romantic Theatre Interlude : Toy Theatres Part Three : Modernist Theatre Interlude : The Art of Edward Gordon Craig’s Theatre Part Four : Commercial Theatre Interlude : Shakespeare Wallahs Part Five : Popular Theatres Interlude : Mumming Plays Part Six : Subsidised Theatre Interlude : Peter Brook and the Empty Space Part Seven : Postdramatic Theatre Epilogue : Digital Theatre Glossary Index
Biography
Robert Leach has been schoolteacher, journalist, political activist, teacher of acting, freelance theatre director, and academic. Not only has he taught at Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Cumbria Universities, he has also acted professionally in Britain and USA, directed plays in Russia and Britain, and has published five volumes of poetry.
