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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...
The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. 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.
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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...
Jan 13, 2023 · The origins of theatre can be traced back to ancient Greece, where it was closely tied to religious rituals and ceremonies. Greek theatre was primarily divided into two genres: tragedy and...
Oct 15, 1995 · BROADWAY MUSICAL IS BORN. QUICK JUMP: Ancient Greek | Greek to Roman | Common Era | Elizabethan | Restoration. Broadway Musical | Book Musicals | Golden Age | Re-Invents | Corporatization | Post COVID-19. NEW GENRE OF BOOK MUSICAL. QUICK JUMP: Ancient Greek | Greek to Roman | Common Era | Elizabethan | Restoration.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle 's Poetics ( c. 335 BC )—the earliest work of ...
Medieval (liturgical drama, Hroswitha, platea, mansions, Mystery Cycles, Morality plays, Master of Secrets, Mummers plays) Modern Theatre (Bert Wiliams, George Walker, In Dahomey, The Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller)