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Primitive Theater
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Based on rituals and storytelling. Rituals as in Religious rituals.
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Dithyramb
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Religious choral hyme. Fore runner to the written theater. Basis to Greek theater
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Greek Theater
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534 to 300 BCE
Chorus Theater. Theaters were out doors and the Greeks were dedicated to acoustics so that all can hear. |
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Thespis
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534 BCE
The first actor. Thespian. |
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Theater of Dionysus
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Was first built to honor Dionysus then later became a place for plays and theater competitions.
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Escylus
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525-450 BCE
First great playwright of ancient Greece, 50 member chorus, and 2 actors. |
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Euripides
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485-406 BCE
Social commentary in plays. |
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Sophocles
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(496-406 BCE)
Oedipus the King 430 BCE "the perfect play". Focused the interest from chorus to actor. |
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Aristophanes
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(448-385 BCE)
Old Comedy, Lysistrata |
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Menander
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(342-291 BCE)
New comedy |
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Plato
Aristotle |
Philosopher
philosopher, The Poetics, tells us about Greek Theater |
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Roman Theater
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(300-476 CE)
Alexander the Great (336 BCE) The Coliseum Violent, people actually died. Very bloody battles would take place for entertainment. |
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Plautus
Terrence |
(254-184 BCE)
(195-159 BCE) two great comic playwrights of ancient Rome |
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Seneca
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(4 BCE- 65 CE)
Great tragic playwright, Influenced Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Sililoquy (internal) and Monologue, super natural and ghosts |
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Horace
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65 BCE to 8 BCE
Ars Poetica, Roman equivalent to the Poetics |
