Movements in Modern Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
Introduction
Before the remarkably sudden transformation of Western theater in the middle of the nineteenth century, the basic architectural and economic structures of theatrical entertainments had been securely in place for two hundred years. After the European patronage theater of the seventeenth century, theater operated for the pleasure of the elite and the middle class, surviving by gradually refining the Aristotelian laws, filtered through the common desire for fantasy and romance, until the well-made play dominated the stage and overpowered the creativity of theater...
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