Enjoyment of Theatre's balanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre. This text covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history, establishes the aesthetic underpinnings of theatre art, as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. The authors make theatre come alive by showing you how theatre is relevant to your everyday life. You are told at the bFeginning of each chapter, under Objectives, what you should take away from that chapter. At the conclusion of each chapter there is a list of Key Terms to alert you to significant, and probably testable, concepts. The glossary includes all key terms with notation to the page in which the term first appears.