Contents

viii Foreword

x Preface

3 1 : Scenic Design in Ancient Greek
and Roman Theatres

29 2: Medieval Scenic Design

61 3: The Italian Renaissance

i n 4: Design in France and the Holy Roman
Empire from 1640 to the Early Eighteenth
Century

131 5: The Influence of Scena per Amjolo
on Eighteenth-Century Design

157 6: Neoclassicism and Romanticism—
A Rivalry of Opposites

189 7: Realism and Naturalism

223 8: Modernism

257 9: American New Stagecraft,

Russian Constructivism, Epic Theatre,
and the Bauhaus

289 10: Post-World War II and
the Late Twentieth Century

334 Epilogue

Looking Toward the Twenty-First Century

344 Bibliography

353 Index