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TOPIC: Western Classical Plays / Opera

Theater began from myth, ritual, and ceremony. Early society perceived connections between actions performed by groups of people or
leaders to a certain society and these actions moved from habit to tradition, to ritual, to ceremony due to human desire and need for
entertainment. The repeated rehearsals, performances and creation of different actions broke the ground for theater.

THEATER means “place of seeing” but it is more than the buildings where performance takes place. To produce theater, a playwright
writes the scripts, the director rehearses the performers, the designer and technical crew produce props to create the scenes and the
actors and actresses perform on stage. Then it will only be a true theater act when an audience witnesses it.

Below are the important information of periods and events in theater history.
GREEK THEATER ROMAN THEATER MEDIEVAL THEATER RENAISSANCE THEATER

THEATER

TIMELINE 700 BC 3RD CENTURY BC 500 C.E. 1400 - 1600

FEATURES  Consist of 3 types of
drama: Tragedy, Comedy &
Satyr play
 Skene- Backstage
 Theatron- viewing place on
the slope of a hill
 Paradoi- side entrance
 In Greece, tragedy was the
most admired type of play.
The theatre buildings were
called theatron. The
 Themes of Roman  Churches in Europe
theatre plays were staging their own
chariot races , theater performances
during Easter Sundays
gladiators and
with biblical stories and
public executions event.
 The Christians
however opposed  Theater performances
the barbaric themes were not allowed
of the plays and throughout Europe, to
closed down all keep the theater alive,
minstrels though
theaters. Comedy
denounced by the
 Commedia dell ‘arte
(Italian comedy) with
elaborate masques (a
dramatic entertainment
consist of pantomime,
dancing, dialogue,
song)
 One of the most
prominent supporters
of the theater was
Queen Elizabeth I. The
companies of actors

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theaters were large open-
air structures constructed
on the slopes of hills.
FAMOUS Sophocles, Euripides,
PLAYWRIGHT Aeschylus, Aristophanes
AND PLAYS
Oedipus Rex, Cyclops
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plays were popular Church, performed in were organized by the
too in the roman markets, public places aristocrats and
theater from 350 to and festivals. They performed seasonally
travelled from one town in many places.
250 B.C. and
to another as
women were allowed puppeteers, story
to perform on stage. tellers, dancers, singers
and other theatrical
acts.
Plautus, Seneca, William Shakespeare,
Livius, Androcius Thomas Norton, Thomas
Sackville
“ The mystery of Adam”
“Ferrex and Porrex” ,
“Shoemaker’s
Holiday” ,
“A Chaste Maid”
“Romeo and Juliet”

THEATER BAROQUE THEATER NEOCLASSICAL THEATER ROMANTIC THEATER

TIMELINE 1600 – 1750 1800 – 1900 1800 - 2000

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FEATURES
✔ Marked the use of technology and machines ✔ Style of Greek and Roman ✔ Melodrama and Opera were
for special effect societies influence the the most popular.
✔ ✔
theater of arts.
The theater was richly decorated Acting scenery costumes
✔ Officially established 2 types and dance were important
✔ Multiple plots turn
of plays only: Tragedy and elements of theater
✔ Variety of situations characteristics of Comedy.
✔ Opera is an art form in
mannerism ✔ Right and proper audience which singers and
✔ The theatre of the Baroque Period is marked behavior or decorum was musicians perform a
applied. dramatic wwork combining
by the use of technology in current
✔
text (called a libretto) and
broadways and commercial plays. The right of the well-known
musical score.
pair of happy and sad mask
that symbolizes the theatrical ✔ Performed in an opera
arts was due to restrictions house, accompanied by and
between tragedy and comedy orchestra or smaller
plays musical ensemble.
✔ Tragedy- portrayed lives of
upper classes and royals
✔ Comedies- comedies of
manners, tended to focus on
the lower ranks of society
FAMOUS L’ Orfeo (Orpheus) The Cid by Pierre Cornielle Les Misérables and Notre-
PLAYWRIGHT Opera by Claudio Monteverdi Tartuffe and Misanthrope by Dame by Victor Hugo
AND PLAYS Molière Carmen by Georges Bizet
Andromache & Phaedra by
Jean Recine

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