Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser

1. Introduction: world, theatre, theory -- PART I. Theoretical questions -- 2. Aesthetics. Selections from On the Art of Nō Drama: Zeami Motokiyo, translated by Thomas Rimer -- Selections from the Natyasastra: Bharata Muni, translated by Manomohan Ghosh -- Selections from Drama and the African World-view in Myth, Literature and the African World: Wole Soyinka -- 3. Theatre and politics. Selections from The revolution as Muse{u2019}: Drama as surreptitious insurrection in a post-colonial, military state: Femi Osofisan -- Selections from Towards a Revolutionary Theatre: Utpal Dutt -- Selections from Manifestos for a New Arab Theatre: Saadallah Wannous -- 4. Decolonization, hybridi ty, postcoloniality, interculturalism, and globalization. Theatre and Culture: Enrique Buenaventura, translated by Joanne Pottlitzer -- Selections from What the Twilight Says: An Overture: Derek Walcott -- Selections from It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral: Werewere Liking, translated by Irene Assiba d{u2019}Almeida -- Selections from Performing for Aboriginal Life and Culture: Aboriginal Theatre and Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu: Maryrose Casey -- 5. Identity / The actor. Selections from Theatre of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal,translated by Charles A. and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride -- Selections from Human Experience and the Group: Suzuki Tadashi, translated by Thomas Rimer -- Selections from On Directing: Jiao Juyin, translated by Shiao-ling Yu -- 6. Modernity and theatre. Selections from Introduction to Theater: Hirata Oriza, translated by Hiroko Matsuda -- The potential of theatre: Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee -- 7. Toward a theorization of gender in world theatre. Selections from A Maori Point of View: The Journey from Anxiety to Confidence: Roma Potiki -- An Interview with Poile Sengupta: Anita Singh -- PART II. Cultural and literary history. 8. Latin America and the Caribbean -- 9. Sub-Saharan Africa -- 10. North Africa and the Middle East -- 11. Australia and New Zealand -- 12. East Asia -- 13. India -- PART III. Practical exercises. 14. Theory and practice.