All the World a Stage: The Theater in History

Tragedy, comedy, and community: the ancient origins of drama I

Comedy, bread, and spectacles: the ancient origins of drama II

Myths, morality, and mayhem: Medieval, Noh, and Kathakali

Physical theaters: commedia dell'arte, kabuki, and bunraku

The golden age of Spanish drama

Elizabethan and Jacobean theater

Restoration theater

Theater's shifting purpose: French neoclassicism, romanticism, and realism.