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The Fragmented Era (Geopolitical Collapse)

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The Exo Era (Space Colonization)

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Textbook Pages

  • The Textbook of Stage Combat
    • Introduction
    • Part I – The Way of the Warrior
      • Chapter 1: Understanding Violence in Its Social Context
        • Police, Watchmen, and Civil Authority
      • Chapter 2: Worlds Before Modernity
        • Non-Western Civilizations
          • Africa
          • North American Indigenous Cultures
          • Meso and Southern American Empires
          • Polynesia
          • Asia
            • Mainland Southeast Asia
            • India
            • China
            • Japan
        • Cradle of Western Civilization
          • Islamic Middle East
      • Chapter 3: Europe and the Invention of Modern Violence
        • Birth of European Development
          • Ancient Greece
          • Rome – Republic to Empire
          • The Dark Ages
            • Slavs
            • Celts
            • Anglo-Saxons
            • Vikings (Norsemen)
            • Franks
        • Europe: The Invention of Modernity
          • Steel and the Stirrup
          • The Rapier and the Rise of Individualism
          • Bayonets and Professional Armies
            • Rococo
            • Golden Age of Piracy
            • NeoClassic/Empire
            • Romantic
          • Industrial Age / Rifled Breechloaders
      • Chapter 4: The Mechanization of Violence
        • The Naughty Nineties to Roaring Twenties
        • Relativism
        • Youth Culture
      • Chapter 5: The Shape of Violence to Come
        • The Resilience Era (Climate Rupture)
        • The Symbiotic Era (AI Integration)
        • The Exo Era (Space Colonization)
        • The Fragmented Era (Geopolitical Collapse)
        • The Radiant Era (Energy Breakthrough)
        • The Bio Era (Pandemic Rupture)
        • Epilogue: A Historian’s View from the year 2200 CE
    • Part II – Weapons and Tools
      • Weapons Defined
      • Weapons Explained
        • Sword Basics
          • Sword Parts Explained
          • Converting a Costume Sword to Fight-Worthiness
          • Care and Handling of the Sword
          • Why Stage-Combat Sword Blades Are Difficult to Make
          • Disassembling and Assembling a Sword
          • Sword Tangs: Design, Stress, and Failure
          • Checking a Sword for Fight-Worthiness
          • Common Blade Varieties Used for Stage Combat
          • The Completed Sword
        • Knife & Dagger Basics
          • Selecting & Preparing Knife Props for Stage
          • Dagger Blades Used for Stage Combat
          • Checking & Maintaining Knives and Daggers
          • Retractable Knives
          • Folding, Switchblade, & Specialty Knife Props
        • Gun Basics
          • Stage Gun Sound & Safety Levels
          • Blank Misfires & Reliability
          • Cleaning & Maintaining Stage Guns
          • Stage Firearms: Revolvers, Semi-Autos & Non-Guns
            • Flintlock Firearms
            • Percussion Firearms
            • Modern Rifles & Shotguns
            • The Break-Open Shotgun: Origins, Evolution, and Adoption
        • Other Practical Weapon Props
    • Part III – Staging Violence
      • Foundations of Staged Violence
        • Improvising and Stage Combat
        • Stunt Work vs. Stage Combat
        • Real Fighting vs. Stage Combat
        • Hiring the Fight Team
        • Preparing for Fight Rehearsal
        • The Fight Rehearsal
        • The Fight Call
      • Unarmed Stage Combat
        • Pantomimed Impulses
        • Strikes
        • Blocks
        • Kicks
        • Falls
        • Asian Unarmed Combat
        • Modifying Unarmed Combat for Period Work
        • Vaudeville, Slapstick & Comic Combat
      • Fighting With Edged Weaponry
        • Choosing the Right Swords
        • Drawing, Sheathing, and Holding the Weapon
        • En Guard – Stances and Distance
        • Attacks
        • Defences
        • Moving
        • Combinations and Variations
        • Broadsword, Shortsword, And Military Sabre
        • Samurai-style sword fighting
      • Quarterstaff
      • Fighting With Other Weapons
        • Knife Fights
        • Shields & Bucklers
      • Choreography Basics
        • Foundations of Fight Choreography
        • Safety and Discipline
        • The Commission
        • Choosing the Style of the Fight
        • Building a Narrative Fight
        • The Fight Score Method
        • Setting the Moves
        • Developing and Varying the Fight
      • Acting the Fight
        • The Actor
        • Rhythm in Stage Combat
        • Memorize and rehearse a sword fight
      • Tools and Applications
        • Choreographic Notation
        • Using Guns On-Stage
        • Blood Effects for Theatre: Recipes, Blood Packs, and Cleanup
    • Part IV: Violence in Dramatic Literature
      • Approaching Shakespeare
        • Production Notes From Shakespeare
      • Approaching Modern Plays
        • Production Notes from Other Plays
    • Some Final Words:

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