Ritual theatre: The tragic hero ; The magic body -- Theatrum vitae humanae: Theatre as laboratory - man as experiment ; The seducer, the martyr and the fool - theatrical archetypes in the Siglo de Oro ; Mask and mirror ; From the theatrical to social role-play -- The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of Illusion: The middle-class family ; The mutilated individual ; Symbol of the species -- Dramatising the identity crisis: The enigmatic personality ; Identity and history ; The fall of the bourgeois myths ; The completion and end of the bourgeois theatre of illusion -- Theatre of the 'new' man: The re-theatricalisation of theatre as negation of the individual ; Beyond the individual ; Dismemberment and rebirth

1. European drama -- History and criticism
2. Theater -- Europe -- History