HISTOIRE DU THEATRE (2ED) QSJ 160 (QUE SAIS-JE ), By: Viala Alain

Everyone knows what theater is, at least everyone has an idea. But beneath this evidence lie complex realities. The theater is a set of works, a repertoire, it is also a practice of the spectacle, of which the written works are only on the one hand they are also places, more or less specialized, and people, they - even more or less specialists sometimes, finally, it is a ritual, which can be registered in religious and political practices ... This work traces the history of the theater and its place in our society since its Greco origins -romaines, down to its most contemporary forms.