Theatre Histories: An Introduction

This updated 4^th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted.

Daphne P. Lei is Professor of Drama and Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs at University of California, Irvine, USA. She is the 2022 recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, a lifetime achievement award from American Society for Theatre Research.

Tobin Nellhaus is an independent scholar. He writes mainly on the relationship between theatre and communication practices, and on critical realism in theatre theory and historiography.

Tamara Underiner is Associate Dean for Research for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, USA, and director of the Ph.D. program in Theatre and Performance of the Americas.

Patricia Ybarra is the McMillan Family Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA. She is a former president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.