This course follows a fairly strict chronology from the late eighteenth century to the present day, and is designed to promote critical thinking about the nature and problems of linear, narrative historiography concerned with Theatre, specifically as it parallels the ascent and decline of the larger cultural movement of “Modernism”. This course investigates the development of, and the interaction between, four approaches to theatre that dominated most of the twentieth century: popular theatre, psychological realism, subjective theater (culminating in the Theater of Cruelty), and political (epic) theatre. A significant component will address “World” drama as well. Prerequisite: THE 410