Theatre History Assignment.pptx - The Timeline Of Theatre By: Jordan Young Greek Theatre • Greek Theatre began as early as the eight century B.C.E. and

The Timeline Of Theatre By: Jordan Young

Greek Theatre • Greek Theatre began as early as the eight century B.C.E. and originated in Ancient Greece. Tragedy, comedy, and satyr play became the chief fare of the Greek stage. In ancient Greece, tragedies were originally performed in Athens at annual festival known as the City Dionysia. • Some of the major playwrights during this time were Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Sophocles was the most award-winning playwright of his time is famous for his works Oedipus the KingandAntigone.Euripides wrote a play called Medea. Aeschylus only six plays the have survived and introduced the second actor. •Greek plays were a part of a great choral drama that is underappreciated as such in more contemporary times. Playwrights wrote the chorus, whether tragic or comic, as an integral part of the action in their dramas. They used the chorus as a way of suggesting how the playwright wanted the audience to think about the events unfolding before them. Now, people tend to overlook the importance of the chorus and normally cut it from the plays, which is essentially what Roman playwrights did.

Roman Theatre • Romans borrowed many things from Greek theatre. Including the structures and plots of plays but did not value the chorus and chose to eliminate it. The first plays in Rome were written by a Greek import and his first plays were produced in 240 B.C.E. •Roman drama is based only on three writers, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. Plautus and Terence wrote comedies and Seneca wrote violent violent tragedies. Plautus wrotePseudolus • Drama was not the only entertainment in Rome and competed with mimes, chariot racing, and gladiator combats drove comedies and tragedies from the stage. Roman drama became influential during the Renaissance.

Medieval Theatre • The earliest is thought to be from then tenth century and have ended in the sixteenth century in Europe. A kind of international western religious drama developed during this period, unchanged significantly until altered by the effects of a growing Protestant Reformation. • Under the umbrella of religious drama, a number of forms arose, most of which were by anonymous authors because writing for the glory of God precluded taking individual credit for work •This age of drama began with liturgical dramas in the churches and later cycle plays were written in the