THEATER
How different cultures affected English TheaterTheater unites the past and present in a unique cultural experience. Theatre continues to thrive and has become an important subject for study in schools and universities. Reaching back in time and across the world, this ranging new history draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in Egypt to international multicultural theatre in the late twentieth century. English theatre has been changed by different cultures throughout the world.The Father of drama was Thesis of Athens, 535 BC, who created the first actor. The actor performed in intervals between the dancing of the chorus and conversing at times with the leader of the chorus. The tragedy was further developed when new myths became part of the performance, changing the nature of the chorus to a group appropriate to the individual story. Aeschylus added a second ac
The greatest playwright in the English language, Shakespeare was also an actor-manager of a professional company. Theatre was a civic responsibility: writers and actors helped the people confront current political and religious problems. Members of the chorus were characters in the play that commented on the action. The Greeks of Athens invented Western drama. Notable among these "university wits" was Christopher Marlowe, whose Dr. Greek drama was at its height between 500 - 400 BC, when three Athenian tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and the comic playwright Aristophanes were creating there works. His work, covering a broad range of comedy, tragedy, history, and pastoral, includes such immoral characters as Hamlet and Falstaff, Rosalind and Lady Macbeth. Terence included less buffoonery in his comedies and had a more realistic treatment of character and dialogue. tor and a third actor was added by Sophocles, and the number of the chorus was fixed at fifteen. Athenian playwrights used myths and heroic legends drawn from Homer and other sources, but shaped them to reflect contemporary issues. Shakespeare never bothered to publish his plays- the first Folio of 1623, which includes texts of most of his 38 plays, was collected only after his death. Seneca wrote violent, blood-and-thunder tragedies that were intended to be recited rather than performed. The farces of Plautus were based on stock characters, such as the braggart soldier and the scheming slave. He wrote to be performed; the script was only important until the actors knew there lines. A chorus of 50 men and related episodes from the god's life performed the dithyramb at annual festivals of Dionysus.
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