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The popular theatrical shows of the 1850s and 1860s were often lewd, and designed for a male audience. The shows presented a variety of entertainment: dancing girls, comics, singers and musicians ...
- Primitive Theaters
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- The Middle Ages
While early renditions of what we know as theatre and drama are undocumented and subject to speculation, humankind's nature to perform began long before the first official plays were written down by the Greeks. Early plays, like much of Primitive Man's culture, were oral and subject to memorization. Most likely, they began as re-enactments of stori...
For Ancient Greeks, theater was often both a performance for the audience and a ritual in honor of the gods. The Greeks had a vast system of major and minor gods, as well as numerous legends and myths that explained both the known and unknown world. The polytheistic Greeks loved to use theatre and drama as a way of gaining favor with the gods and t...
While the pagan, polytheistic drama of the Greeks did not sit well with authorities nor audiences deeply aligned with The Christian Church (which controlled much of culture), theater still survived via traveling groups of performers that performed at court and in other settings. Like the Greeks, these groups were sometimes ritualistic and tied to r...
Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the theatrical culture of the city-state. [10] [b] Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BC, it flowered during the 5th century BC (from the end of which it began to spread throughout the Greek world) and continued to be ...
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The Catholic Church kept theatre alive through the institution of liturgical drama around 900 CE. The church introduces dramatic performances to Easter services, acting out the story of the Resurrection. Ironically, the institution that discouraged theater during the collapse of Rome became responsible for its rebirth in the West.
Live drama is an ancient art form with thousands of years of recorded history and ongoing cultural vitality. Cinema is a much newer art form, with a history dating back only to approximately 1895 ...
Oct 15, 1995 · 4th Century BCE: Romans first experienced theatre in the 4th century BCE, with a performance by Etruscan actors. The theatre of ancient Rome was a thriving and diverse art form, ranging from festival performances of street theatre, nude dancing, and acrobatics, to the staging of Plautus’s broadly appealing situation comedies, to the high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.
