TR - 224 History of the Musical Theatre and World Cultures

Credits: 3

A survey of the intercultural history of the Musical Theatre from its antecedents in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman theatre. The course examines the cultural, social, and political influences that led to its further development in ballad and comic opera, extravaganzas, minstrel shows, melodrama, vaudeville, and burlesque through its reaching maturing in the twentieth century to become the most popular form of theatre in the twenty-first.