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• Theater began from myth, ritual, and ceremony.
• Theater means -> place of seeing
• Greek theater - European theater began in Ancient Greece honoring many gods
• The Cult of Dionysus - religious festival who honors the god of wine and fertility
• Athens - is where festivals and competitions were usually performed
• in ancient Greece, there were three kinds of plays (drama): Tragedy, Comedy, and the Satyr play.
• Tragedy - means tragos or goat (song). goats sacrificed to Dionysus
• tragedy - is the most admired play. Thespis was the first actor and introduced the use of masks "Father of Tragedy"
• comedy plays - were derived from imitations. Aristophanes wrote the most (Lysistrata)
• Satyr Play - contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending (tragedic comedy) Satyr(half goat)
• Theatre buildings were called -> theatron
• parts of the greek theater

  A) theatron

  B) orchestra

  C) skene

  D) parodos

  E)

  
• Roman theater started in the 3rd century BC
• Roman drama began with the plays of Livius Andronicus
• Triumvir Pompey- was one of the first permanent (non-wooden) theatres in Rome, whose structure was somewhat similar to the theatron of Athens.

  
• Renaissance theater arts - were characterized by a return of Classical Greek and Roman arts and culture.
• shaakespeare - famous actor in rennaisance
• Baroque theater - is marked by the use of technology in current Broadways or commercial plays
• The Neoclassical theater - was grandiosity
• pierre corn - father of french tragedy