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The Renaissance theatre
The theater familiar to most modern viewers had a lowly medieval birth-in churches, on festival platforms, and in the great halls of the European nobility. Hosted by Professor Richard Beacham of King's College London, this program weaves together el...
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Ancient theatres of Greece and Rome
Beginning with the most rudimentary of theaters - an open plot of ground which the Greeks called a theatron or "seeing space" - this program illustrates in stunning detail how that idea evolved over the centuries. Professor Richard Beacham of King's...