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Ended · 2018–2019

Crash Course Theater

Drama / History

We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.

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Seasons & episodes

Season 1 · 50 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · What is Theater?
  2. S01 E02 · Thespis, Athens, and the Origins of Greek Drama
  3. S01 E03 · Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
  4. S01 E04 · Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
  5. S01 E05 · Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
  6. S01 E06 · Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
  7. S01 E07 · Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
  8. S01 E08 · The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
  9. S01 E09 · Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
  10. S01 E10 · Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
  11. S01 E11 · Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
  12. S01 E12 · Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
  13. S01 E13 · The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
  14. S01 E14 · Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
  15. S01 E15 · Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
  16. S01 E16 · Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
  17. S01 E17 · English Theater After Shakespeare
  18. S01 E18 · Where Did Theater Go?
  19. S01 E19 · The Spanish Golden Age
  20. S01 E20 · Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
  21. S01 E21 · Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
  22. S01 E22 · Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
  23. S01 E23 · Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
  24. S01 E24 · All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
  25. S01 E25 · China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
  26. S01 E26 · England's Sentimental Theater
  27. S01 E27 · Why So Angry, German Theater?
  28. S01 E28 · The Rise of Melodrama
  29. S01 E29 · North America Gets a Theater...Riot
  30. S01 E30 · Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
  31. S01 E31 · Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
  32. S01 E32 · Realism Gets Even More Real
  33. S01 E33 · Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
  34. S01 E34 · Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre
  35. S01 E35 · The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
  36. S01 E36 · Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
  37. S01 E37 · Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
  38. S01 E38 · Expressionist Theater
  39. S01 E39 · Futurism and Constructivism
  40. S01 E40 · Little Theater and American Avant Garde
  41. S01 E41 · The Harlem Renaissance
  42. S01 E42 · Federal Theatre and Group Theatre
  43. S01 E43 · Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty
  44. S01 E44 · Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre
  45. S01 E45 · Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
  46. S01 E46 · Broadway, Seriously
  47. S01 E47 · The Birth of Off Broadway
  48. S01 E48 · Poor Unfortunate Theater
  49. S01 E49 · Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
  50. S01 E50 · Broadway Book Musicals

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