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Performance studies: the broad-spectrum approach. (Special Issue: Theatre in America: a Collaborative Art)
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National Forum
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June 22, 1990
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1990 Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The ways theatre is taught in colleges and universities in the United States can be divided into four approaches. These occur in somewhat of a historical sequence, although not strictly so; each approach can be found in today's higher education system. At first, theatre was an adjunct of dramatic literature. There were few theatre departments. Drama was taught in English departments; plays staged in order to make texts "come alive"-a way to interpret the masterpieces of the Western canon from Aeschylus through Shakespeare and on to Chekhov and O'Neill (or whoever was considered most current at the time). But this approach was soon felt to be extremely limited. Younger ...
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